Posted on 08/03/2024 1:25:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — When the Americans freed from Russia stepped on U.S. soil late Thursday night, the first hugs came from a beaming President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The scene showed a dramatic, poignant and possibly life-saving rescue of “wrongly detained” U.S. citizens.
It was also the kind of image political election campaigns would pay a fortune to get.
Politics, perhaps inevitably, became a subtext to the multinational prisoner swap that freed 16 Westerners from Russia and sent eight Russian spies and at least one convicted assassin back to Russia.
Biden, in announcing the hard-fought deal, credited the relationships with U.S. allies, especially Germany, that he had worked to repair after the era in which then-President Trump was dismissive of such partnerships. Even now, Republicans are campaigning on a platform that promotes isolationism.
“Allies matter,” Biden said from the White House earlier Thursday, surrounded by families of the prisoners as he announced the swap was under way.
“For anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do,” he said in an unsubtle dig at the GOP. “Today is a powerful example of why it’s vital to have friends in this world. Friends you can trust, work with and depend upon, especially on matters of great consequence and sensitivity like this.”
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Everything done by the swamp administration from now to election is for the benefit of Harris.
So, Biden means friends, like the Russians?
Or maybe the Germans, who will swap prisoners for you even after you blow up their pipeline.
Biden sure looked suave, boarding the wrong plane. He glided up those steps effortlessly. Soon, AF1 will be off-limits to him and he need never fall down those stairs, again.
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