Posted on 08/01/2024 9:02:02 AM PDT by CedarDave
Imprisoned American journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan were freed from prison in Russia Thursday as part of the largest multi-country prisoner swap since the Cold War.
The Americans were among 26 prisoners from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Russia, and Belarus freed as part of the prisoner exchange overseen by Turkish intelligence, Turkey’s presidency said.
Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich spent nearly 500 days in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison alongside serial killers and other political prisoners.
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Lots of TV coverage on Fox. Biden to speak from White House shortly.
Interesting that the Quantanamo case just concluded for 3 monsters.
Gershkovich's parents, Ella and Mikhail Gershkovich, are Jewish immigrants who each settled in the U.S. after leaving the Soviet Union via the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program during a period of mass emigration, ending up in the United States in 1979 and eventually New York City, where they met.
The couple moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where Gershkovich and his sister grew up speaking Russian at home. Sources differ on how fluent Gershkovich is in Russian, with Gershkovich himself saying he learned most of his Russian in Moscow, an account bolstered by his colleague, The New Yorker Moscow correspondent Joshua Yaffa.
how long was the black basketball ‘female’ whatshername in prison there fore? it sure wasn’t for more than a year- the biden admin got right on that case- but this one? Meh= not so much apparently
Apparently, the reason that Putin agree to this is that the deal included many Europeans who were being held in several countries for crimes including and up to murder.
I wonder if Evan will be again in such a hurry to collect information for US Intelligence, although I suspect he’s already been given his tickets to vacation in North Korea.
I also do have to wonder whether the Russians supplied him with ‘the other side’ regarding the Ukraine War, since the Western Media has zero interest in reporting it and prefers to leave the West thinking that it all started because Putin got up on the wrong side of the bed on Feb 24th, 2024.
If they dropped the charges against the Russian Troll farms from the Robert Mueller investigation in exchange it will be an outrage!!!!
Why aren’t they reporting who the Russians got in exchange?
Seems intentional...🤔
If this was under Trump they would call it Russian collusion.
Putin exploiting Dem election optics ... Biden will waste no time taking credit for all this hard work. Putin likely made the offer to help the Dems.
Biden is sniffing and hitting on one of the prisoner’s young daughters.
Disturbing presser. Took a punch at Trump for not getting them home.
I would not be surprised if he actually is a spy.
I think she did about nine months.
Biden asked why Trump didn’t do it, ignoring the fact that they were taken hostage while Biden was in charge!
This is great news. The marine was released too!!!!! Thank God!
President Trump has/had friends and contacts that accomplish great things but only when he became President again, and I believe the commie bastards found out enough to approach and offer something for no other reason than to steal President Trump's thunder.
It is most obvious they are committing scorched earth policies and in the short time left before the election, they're gonn'a rack up as many points as they can to hide their anti American hearts.
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