U.S. and Russia have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary multipart deal, according to a senior Biden administration official

tardigrada@beehaw.org · 4 months ago

U.S. and Russia have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary multipart deal, according to a senior Biden administration official

tardigrada@beehaw.org · 4 months ago

That’s right :-)

‘Trump loses his hostage’: Biden applauded for securing release of Gershkovich and Whelan — (archived)

The Biden administration has secured the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russian prisons as part of a prisoner swap, which wipes away one of Donald Trump’s baffling campaign promises.

Trump had raised eyebrows by suggesting multiple times that he had a deal in place with Vladimir Putin to release the journalist from detention if he’s re-elected, saying the Russian president “will do that for me, and I don’t believe he’ll do it for anyone else,” but president Joe Biden beat him to the punch and got the pair released.

Midnitte@beehaw.org · 4 months ago

He probably would have given up on Ukraine to get them released.

Art of the Deal. /s

U.S. and Russia have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary multipart deal, according to a senior Biden administration official

U.S. and Russia have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary multipart deal, according to a senior Biden administration official

Russia frees Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in historic multi-country prisoner swap