This might sound like an impossible notion at first glance, but please hear this out. Someone just suggested there’s a silver lining to be found in the imbalanced prisoner swap that President Joe Biden and his administration made with Russian President Vladimir Putin–and that redounds in a positive way for both the United States and former President Donald Trump. (You’ve read the headline, so who that person is–JD Vance, the vice presidential nominee for Republican–is no great mystery. More on his quote in a minute.)
As we wrote earlier on Thursday, the deal that sees two Americans regaining their freedom involved more than just Americans and Russians, but prisoners from other nations, as well. But it allowed dangerous and violent Russian criminals to go free.
Background: Russia Releases Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan As Part of Massive Prisoner Exchange
On Thursday morning,…
