Headline “TRUMP CONFIRMS HE’S A RUSSIAN ASSET BY CLAIMING PUTIN WILL RELEASE EVAN GERSHKOVICH IF HE WINS”.
First of all, I’m old enough to remember the games that the Reaganites played with the American hostages in Iran and how that was used as leverage — getting Iran to not release the hostages for Carter’s benefit — so as to improve the odds of electing Ronnie. So yeah — that’s in my head as I write this.
But Biden couldn’t have asked for a better gift if his campaign wrote the instructions.
Now at every Campaign stop and — if there are any — every debate, Biden should be telling Trump to pledge that he will bring home the hostage right now. If he has the juice with Putin then get the guy sent home or STF Up. And if Trump says that will only happen if he’s elected he can say that sounds like a Hostage negotiation with a terrorist.
Finally, if — and this is an unlikely if — Drumpfy actually takes the bait and gets his pal Putin to send home a hostage that Putin wouldn’t send back for Biden — the hay that could be made out of that (i.e. Trump — Putin ‘24 all the way — Vote Row A) seems like it would be pure political gold. Maybe we could ask if Trump is auctioning off the media rights to Tuckems, bow tie and all.