I will look for another source.

I am familiar with this story.

The hosts are not keen on relying on the Daily Mail in LBN - while it may have got this story right, it does have RW tabloid values, and a poor record of accuracy.

And it would behoove him to change tactics?????

Nonetheless, it is still rather surprising.

"Boris release the prisoners". He is probably being fed campaign polling data from Manafort.

..."This is a big fucking deal."

Secretary Blinken.

His family has been working non stop for years, they were very critical of the Trump administration who they said wouldn't even take their calls. Biden has worked tirelessly to get this done.

Really hope Biden and/or Harris show up at the airport to welcome these Americans home.

Truly, Trump had two and half years to convince Putin to free Whelan, and did jack fuckall about it. It was disgraceful.

They've been pretty clear that the Trump administration didn't care one bit about Whelan, but of course they had to remain reserved because they didn't want to piss Trump off in case he ever got back in. I hope they are effusive in their praise for Biden/Harris, but I also hope they just let it all out and let Trump have it. Trump didn't care because there was nothing in it for him.

Whelan's charges were more serious from a Russian perspective, but I could see why they'd be upset that Griner got the attention and swap potential that she did while Whelan sat in prison for yet another year.

They wanted their guy back, but they didn't blame Biden for getting the deal for Griner that they could get. And Griner has spoken with them several times and been an advocate for Whelan. It was the Cons who were going nuts that Biden got a gay black athlete back, but the Russians weren't willing to give up Whelan for what we offered.

They had no cause to be upset. There are so many factors that go into this prisoner swap --- I trust the administration did what was possible at the time as well as now.

Trump is going to lose and he better do this deal because Trump giving them Ukraine is off the table.

He knew damn well that this could happen and went anyway.

Glad he's out, but he's not acquitted himself well.

He said he would work on freeing the hostages in Gaza and Americans held prisoner elsewhere in the world. It was obviously a reference to Gershkovic at least, since he had just been sentenced days before.

Bravo, Mr. President and the whole team that worked on this.

Best President of my lifetime.

NT

An orange one?

...Biden Harris administration has succeeded again...

...(we need to spin the shit out of this)...

...

What's Putin up to?

Is this a signal that he thinks Pedo Trump will lose?

Trump needs to stay away from windows.

NT

I'm serious. This helps Biden-Harris. Great PR.

"I told you I would get Gershkovich released before the election," or something like that?

Its a sure thing.

Link to tweet

puppet master doesn't want to deal with his puppet......yeah OK

Anton Gerashchenko @Gersashchenko_en
The largest prisoner exchange of Russian political prisoners and the West since the Cold War may take place on the border between Russia and Poland.

The An-148 airplane with the flight number RA-61727, which had earlier landed in Russia's Kaliningrad, flew back to Moscow.

This plane has already been used in prisoner exchanges between Russia and other countries before.

There are reports that the exchange has/will take place today.

Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en
Russian Telegram channels report that the prisoner exchange between Russia and Western countries in Ankara is complete. It involved 26 people from prisons in the US, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus. As a result of the exchange, 10 people flew to Russia, 13 to Germany and three to the US.

No official confirmation has been made.

This was a very complex deal involving multiple countries. It took a world leader like President Biden to pull off this deal

Link to tweet

Daily Mail is not a suitable source for LBN.

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