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You are the only one who can bring my boy home,
she implored him, ... according to the newspaper We are helping. We are doing something.”
We won’t stop until Paul Whelan and others join Trevor in the loving arms of family and friends.”
After Reed’s release, Biden had said in a statement This guy is obviously not a spy, he's just a kid.”
During a two-hour long interview with Putin, Carlson pressed his case, saying He’s being held hostage in exchange…Maybe it degrades Russia to do that,
There’s one thing I would like to say. It was great to get on that bus today and see not just Americans and Germans but Russian political prisoners,
Gershkovich said in a brief conversation with Andrew Roth, a reporter for The Guardian, as he stepped off the plane at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland When the children walked down the plane — they don’t speak Russian — and Putin just greeted them in Spanish. He said ‘Buenas noches,’
I just spent a month in prison in Yekaterinburg where basically everyone I was sat with is a political prisoner,
Getting off the plane, seeing the president, the vice president, that was nice,
They asked their parents yesterday who this guy was meeting them, they didn’t even know who Putin was,
This is how Putin runs his government. This is how Putin runs his country,
They’re not all Navalny supporters,
They stood up for democracy and human rights, their own leaders threw them in prison. The United States helped secure their release as well,
President Trump has said repeatedly that he could’ve gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that?"
Only one of them was in custody when [Trump] was President."
Another user made the same criticism of Phang’s original statement, saying You got a problem with it? Take it up with Trump, who, again, didn’t bring them home. President Biden did,
Phang stated on the social media platform Thursday Must you demonstrate your hackiness every single day? Two of the three Americans were wrongfully detained during Biden's presidency. It's good to see our lame-duck president being, well… lame."
A conservative X account slammed the journalist, commenting #truth Trump repeatedly said he could bring them home. He never did."
The MSNBC anchor shared the clip of Biden’s retort, and commented No word is strong enough for this…. I was sure I was going to die in prison,
he told his family who were in attendance with Biden in the Oval Office I wouldn't have made the deal for a hundred people in exchange for someone that has killed untold numbers of people with his arms deals."