WhatTheBuck

You can’t be serious. That’s like asking why he wouldn’t admit to having secret negotiations with Russia to build a Trump tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign.

Hell, Trump pressured the Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners as an incentive to get the Taliban to the negotiating table. (Negotiations to which the Afghan government itself wasn’t invited.) Trump will claim he didn’t release the prisoners, the Taliban did. But that’s a distinction with no difference. He made them do it. And a bunch of jihadists returned to the battlefield.

Not from their perspective.

I want to play poker with you.

I wonder if the tag is still on that shirt.

Don’t cherry pick a quote out of context. You change the meaning when you omit “and hold them hostage.” We don’t do that. We don’t arrest Russian journalists and charge them with phony crimes in order to use them as bargaining chips in prisoner swaps. Come on, man. Yeah, we arrested a lot of innocent Afghans and Iraqis during those wars on flimsy evidence or baseless accusations made by locals against their rivals seeking retribution or reward money. Some of those innocent “detainees” wound up getting tortured at black sites or Gitmo and were eventually released without charge. That’s a dark chapter in our history and George W. Bush et al. should’ve been charged with war crimes. But at least their goal was to catch bad guys. They just didn’t care if innocent people got swept up and hurt in the process. The point still stands that we don’t do shit like Putin does.

Tim Burchett was on Scripps News a little while ago doing that little dance, trying to acknowledge that getting American prisoners back is a good thing while criticizing Biden for it. He was talking about the “politics involved” and how Putin wanted to “put a good spin” on this and how Trump would’ve been tougher to deal with. (Puh-lease.) He lamented how we always get the worse end of the deal and brought up that “female basketball player.” Uh, yeah, Tim, it kind of sucks but we don’t arrest innocent people and hold them hostage and Putin wouldn’t bargain for them if we did. So being a free and democratic society puts us at a disadvantage. Maybe we shouldn’t have been so quick to release Maria Butina but I’ll bet the last thing Trump and the GOP wanted was for her to hang around where she might spill her secrets. She was pretty deeply involved with the party and the NRA. Then he had the nerve to say, “We don’t even know where the president is right now.” Hey, jackass, he’s in the White House. You know, where he lives and works. He had a press briefing scheduled. Fuck the GOP. Way to go Joe. Welcome home to the hostages.

Trump had the opportunity to free Whelan years ago but declined. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-turned-down-paul-whelan-141350684.html

They’ll make him an offer they won’t uphold.

John Kennedy does. I’ve also been told here (or back on shaggy) that GWB didn’t adopt his southern accent until the 2nd time he ran for office.

https://events.democrats.org/event/655606/

And maybe include a little visual aid of who was in charge of the “negotiation.”

Idiot. The shirts were worn by Trump’s goons on Jan. 6. Recognize the Nazi Eagle? (I’ll bet you do.) “6MWE” stands for “6 Million Wasn’t Enough.” (But there’s a reasonable chance that you’re a Holocaust denier too.)

Do shirts count?

And blonde. After he turned gray.

“Vice President of the United States!”

How does he do it?

(I realize it wasn’t the Last Supper, but they don’t know that.)

They’re all risky. There’s no sure thing.

Project 2025 isn’t going away and I’ve seen nothing from Trump that suggests he’s even considering firing Vance. I see Trump defending Vance.

Biden introduced Harris in Delaware. Obama introduced Biden in Illinois.