Update: Whelen and WSJ reporter Gershikovich released by Russia

Rupert Murdoch and all his money could not bring WSJ's Gershkovich home, but two years of ongoing diplomatic negotiations did. This is what our national security, state department and defense employees do every day as rank & file government employees.
Yet Project 2025 proponents want to dismantle agencies like the state department -- that's just nuts.

 

Trump was right, he said they would be released before he takes office.

 

It certainly is. Trump peaked after the assassination attempt when Biden was still his opponent. Harris will continue to climb the further this goes on and Trump has nowhere to go but further down, especially as he continues to make an ass of himself on the daily. Having the worst VP pick on history also isn’t helping him.

 

On a positive note, the X’ing here is much improved. Much less random AF weirdo capitalization, only one or two punctuation errors (one of which I have also seen as being correct, depending on the source), and a coherent message, such as it is.

Progress!

 

Well he does have a special relationship with Rooty Pu, so he probably got the heads up.

 

Mmm, he said they would be released after he gets elected and before he takes office.

 

And hackers

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4806049-vance-trump-prisoner-swap/

 

LOL!

 

American journalist Gonzalo Lira could have been freed from a Ukrainian prison with 1 phone call. But there was just one problem, the Kamala Harris administration wanted him dead. For the crime of making videos like this:

 

Since when has a VP's office been called "an administration"?

 

Thank you President Biden and Madam Vice President Harris.

 

Putin got everything he wanted; it's why he approved it. Those hackers are very concerning. And he got back 4 spies. Not sure if that will bite us down the road but many of these people didn't just get released by the US, we released the hackers.