About That Swap

Everyone is thankful today that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and three other Americans held in Russia were released. We rejoice for them and their families now that they are safely back home.

Of course, President Biden just had to use the occasion to attack Donald Trump for some bizarre reason. Biden essentially said that Trump couldn’t get the reporter out of Russia, but he did.

Well, here’s a fact check: Gershkovich was taken hostage in 2023 -- under President Biden. Even Donald Trump can’t get prisoners out before they are taken hostage.

Unlike Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who traded five top Taliban terrorists for one deserter, Donald Trump got more American prisoners out of foreign jails without giving up anything to the bad guys.

But what did Joe Biden give up? As usual, he gave up the store.

Vladimir Putin has been waging hostage diplomacy. He takes hostages and holds them as bargaining chips to get what he wants. In this case, he got a Russian assassin, and some of his best hackers returned to him.

Sadly, dictators know that taking hostages pays off when there is weakness in the White House. Joe Biden just guaranteed more pain and suffering for more families in the years ahead as more Americans are taken hostage and held by dictators like Putin.