CNN’s Dana Bash could not conceal her excitement on Thursday’s installment of Inside Politics as she hailed President Joe Biden’s anti-Trump “mic drop moment” at the end of his press conference announcing the prisoner swap involving former Marine Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Meanwhile, chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto would claim that the deal is a victory for Biden’s worldview and a defeat for Trump’s.
It was all set up as Biden was ending his presser when Reuters White House correspondent Andrea Shalal lobbed a softball Biden’s way, “President Trump has said repeatedly that he could’ve gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange, what do you say to that? What do you say to President Trump? Former president.”
Biden replied, “Why didn’t he do it when he was…
