JUST IN: State Department Holds Briefing Following Major US-Russia Prisoner Swap

Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel held a State Department Press Briefing

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[ftwmotivation]

If they played transgender
B-ball, they would’ve been out a lot sooner

[prissray]

Putin played Biden and Blinken like a fiddle.

[Thetruthonly]

Can they tell us what they had to pay to get them out because God knows they didn’t get them out for nothing.

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Is there anyone in this administration that isn’t light in the loafers?

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You can bet we paid a HUGE PRICE. I smell a rat.

[joannmiller]

Free our political prisoners and j6ers and Derrick Chauvin

[glenncox]

I literally have to wonder if Russia did this to give the Biden-Harris Democrats better polling numbers to improve their negotiating position in the Ukraine.

They know the Democrats are soft and weak, and that Trump is strong. It’s a golden opportunity to shape the November elections.

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