Putin plays Biden like a piano, swaps terrorist for weed smoker. lol

[Mercor]

Biden didn't pick.Whelan is a US spy and Putin is not letting him go in a prisoner swap.Biden would have to agree to do something like stop arming Ukraine to get him out.

You are just making this narrative up

 

[Tony Stark]

You are just making this narrative up

Actually thats your MO.

 

[kmgilroy89]

Whelan is a man and a fucking marine w/much more grievous charges under his belt than a little weed. Why is a civvy being bailed out of a gulag over a trained hardened troop? Is that really a question?

Let's say he is a spy. I agree with you in that it is a more serious charge. However, who would he be a spy for? The American government? Therefore, our government would have sent him there to perform those illegal activities. All the more reason to give him priority over her. We didn't send Griner there to break Russian laws, she did that all on her own.

 

[kmgilroy89]

don't get me wrong, the question is asking for reasoning from OP and other butthurts itt, not Biden/admin

Pretty sure that nobody with a brain believes that Kari Lake would say don't rescue me for a second. She told everybody in AZ who was a McCain supporter (somebody who volunteered to stay captive out of principle) to get out.

 

[Tony Stark]

Let's say he is a spy. I agree with you in that it is a more serious charge. However, who would he be a spy for? The American government? Therefore, our government would have sent him there to perform those illegal activities. All the more reason to give him priority over her. We didn't send Griner there to break Russian laws, she did that all on her own.

They didn't give priority of her over him.Its about what they will have give up to get a spy over a person with a small amount of weed.The price that Putin is asking for Whelen is likely astronomical.

 

[kmgilroy89]

They didn't give priority of her over him.Its about what they will have give up to get a spy over a person with a small amount of weed.The price that Putin is asking for Whelen is likely astronomical.

I heard Trump had the opportunity to get him out for this guy. Is that false? If it's true not sure why the offer would have been rescinded.

 

[Tony Stark]

I heard Trump had the opportunity to get him out for this guy. Is that false? If it's true not sure why the offer would have been rescinded.

I have never seen that confirmed by a reliable source.
Even if true Putin is a lot more pissed with The US now vs than due to sanctions and arming Ukraine so he might have raised the price.

 

[UsualName]

Paul Whelan was arrested in Russia in late 2018. In the middle of Trump's administration. What did Trump do for the remainder of his time in office on behalf of Whelan?

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has revealed that Donald Trump turned down the chance to secure Paul Whelan’s release two years ago – despite the former president claiming to be outraged over the Biden administration’s deal which freed Brittney Griner but left the US marine in Russian custody.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...viktor-bout-trump-prisoner-swap-b2242240.html



Donald Trump, who ignored Paul Whelan for two years, says deal to return Brittney Griner to US was ‘stupid’
Mr Trump did not mention Mr Whelan’s name a single time during the two years he was held in Russia on his watch, nor did he bring up the former US Marine during a 2019 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ump-brittney-griner-paul-whelan-b2241800.html

I don’t think too many people would call me a Trump defender buuuuuuut pretty much it’s best not to make deals with the Russians.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

I heard Trump had the opportunity to get him out for this guy. Is that false?

Link posted earlier.

If it's true not sure why the offer would have been rescinded.

Ukraine, possibly?

 

[Cuddles]

clowns are gonna clown.

Then:

Let's hope he does a better job of bringing her home than he did Otto Wambier.

It's nice to help getting people out, but ideally they come home without their brains bashed in and then die a week later.

now:

If Biden fucks up with his pander to the skin color prisoner exchange program, you turn the discussion to Trump.

Yep, no "different standards for you Commander Foreskin. All Trump/All the time.