16 RUSSIAN HOSTAGES FREED

So much for the sad old sack of shit in his golf hotel and his claim he would free one prisoner once re-elected president. “Sleepy Joe” just kicked that ginormous ass. Again.

President Biden said something interesting and critical for democracy while discussing the largest prisoner release/hostage swap since the Cold War.

Biden said:

All told Russia has released 16 prisoners. Eight Russians who are being held in the West will be sent home as well. These 16 prisoners from Russia that Russia has released include four Americans, five Germans, seven Russian citizens who are political prisoners in their own country. One of those Russians runs a human rights organization memorial which won a Nobel Prize in 2022. Putin threw him in prison for voicing opposition to the war in Ukraine. Four others worked with Alexei Navalny, political opposition leader who died in a Russian prison this year.

Now they can live safely abroad and continue their work of advocating for democracy, if they so choose. This deal would not have been made possible without our allies, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Turkey. They all stepped up and they stood with us, they stood with us and they made bold and brave decisions, these prisoners being held in their countries who are justifiably being held and provide a logistical support to get the Americans home. So for anyone who questions whether allies matter, they do, they matter.

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. Our alliances make our people safer. And we began to see that again today. Let me say this says a lot about the United States that we work relentlessly to free Americans who are unjustly held around the world. It also says a lot about us that this deal includes the release of Russian political prisoners. They stood up for democracy and human rights, their own leaders threw them in prison. The United States helps secure their release as well.

The fact that President Biden concluded this hostage deal an hour before he announced that he was not running for reelection is incredible. It shows Biden’s deep commitment to the presidency and to democracy.

Judging by his Truth Social post, the terrified old man is not taking the news well:

So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I’m sure the answer is NO)? Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs? Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps.

Our “negotiators” are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash. To do so is bad precedent for the future. That’s the way it should be, or this situation will get worse and worse. They are extorting the United States of America. They’re calling the trade “complex” – That’s so nobody can figure out how bad it is!

The fat old loser wasn’t happy for the hostages that he failed to get released. His response doesn’t mention the hostages.

That’s because the senile old loser doesn’t care about the hostages. He doesn’t care about democracy. However, it is deeply telling that he tried to spin a moment that was good for democracy as something very bad for America.

I think we can see what the sad old fool’s lord and master thinks of his future fortunes.

Among those being released from Russia and returning tothe United States are: Lilia Chanysheva, a Russian opposition leader; Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine; Vladimir Kara-Muzra, a Russian journalist and one of Russia’s most courageous opposition figures, a political ally of Alexei Navalny; Alsu Kurmasheva, a Prague-based editor with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Those going to Germany include: Lilia Chanysheva, the head of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s regional office in Bashkortostan; Ksenia Fadeyeva, a Russian dissident who joined Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny; Oleg Orlov, one of Russia’s oldest political prisoners, a dissident whose activism dates back to Soviet times, when he illegally printed and distributed pamphlets opposing the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan, and the co-chair of one of Russia’s storied human rights organizations, Memorial, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022; lya Yashin, one of Russia’s most prominent opposition figures, who was close to Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov; Kevin Lik, one of Russia’s youngest prisoners, accused of treason; Dieter Voronin, a political scientist with dual Russian-German citizenship, detained in 2021 by Russian security officers in connection to a treason case against journalist and former adviser to the head of the Russian space agency, Ivan Safronov; Patrick Schobel, a German national, arrested in St. Petersburg when customs officers found six gummy bears containing cannabis in his luggage; German Moyzhes, a Russian-German lawyer who was the managing partner of a consultancy that helped Russians obtain European residency permits; Vadim Ostanin, head of a local branch of Navalny's team in the Siberian city of Barnaul; Andrei Pivovarov, a St. Petersburg opposition figure and head of the defunct rights group Open Russia; Alexandra Skochilenko, a pacifist Russian artist and musician sentenced to seven years in prison by a St. Petersburg court in November 2023, for covering five supermarket price tags with stickers giving information about Russia’s war against Ukraine.

All were exchangedfor eight Russians convicted of crimes ranging from assassination to various espionage charges.

I wonder how much ketchup is on the walls at Mar A Lardass today?

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