Mike Pompeo: Griner-Bout swap makes it
‘more likely’ celebrities will be
taken hostage
Fox News,
by
Jessica Chasmar
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/12/2022 1:47:37 PM
Former Secretary of State and current Fox News contributor Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the controversial prisoner swap with Russia, in which WNBA star Brittney Griner was released from Russian detention in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, will make it "more likely" for celebrities and other notables to be taken hostage abroad. Pompeo told "Fox News Sunday" anchor Shannon Bream that the Trump administration – in which he served – was careful not to create incentives for U.S. adversaries when negotiating prisoner exchanges. "The Trump administration was always very clear," he said. "We weren’t going to trade bad
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine 12/12/2022 2:01:14 PM (No. 1354940)
They could start with Jane Fonda.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/12/2022 2:07:44 PM (No. 1354942)
I think that’s been the reasoning in these matters for 100+ years. But bidet just does whatever is in the instructions slid under the door of the basement.
In bidetland the celebrities are handed winning hands and the middle class (known as the despicables to hiallarity clitton) is left to die (known as clinging to God and their guns by the obumbum crowd).
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/12/2022 2:11:55 PM (No. 1354946)
Pompeo finds the silver lining.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 12/12/2022 2:17:41 PM (No. 1354954)
I recommend Okra Windbag, Wookie Goldbrick and Joyhouse Ride.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 12/12/2022 2:19:47 PM (No. 1354955)
I could provide them with a list.
Let's start with Oprah, Rob Reiner, Kathy Griffin, Jane Fonda, Michael Moore, Patton Oswald -- oh, the list could go on and on...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 12/12/2022 2:36:41 PM (No. 1354962)
Pompeo better be a prominent piece of the next republican administration.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 12/12/2022 2:44:12 PM (No. 1354966)
Choices, choices, choices, too many choices. But staying in the basketball category, I nominate LeBron James.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sanchin 12/12/2022 3:05:26 PM (No. 1354981)
She was not kidnapped. She broke the law and was arrested.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
daisey 12/12/2022 3:07:19 PM (No. 1354983)
I know Van Jones says Griner is an icon, but I’d never heard of her before. And now James Carville says if you do t approve of the swap, you’re a racist. I’m sick and tired of that word. It’s the democrats fall back excuse for everything. Just enough already. Please.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 12/12/2022 3:23:35 PM (No. 1354991)
Too many of the suggested names remind me of "Ransom Of Red Chief!"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mobyclik 12/12/2022 3:26:17 PM (No. 1354994)
And the downside is?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/12/2022 3:35:31 PM (No. 1354997)
As long as the 101% political Biden, and his crew are in White House, any American who is a well known celebrity, is somehow connected to the US LGBTQI+ Community or who could otherwise become the root of a political public relations bonanza for Biden and his leftist crew, should not travel to Russia, and will always have to keep at least one eye looking back over their shoulder when traveling abroad outside the civilized world.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/12/2022 3:55:41 PM (No. 1355005)
Well, depending upon the celebrity….
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/12/2022 4:19:26 PM (No. 1355016)
Great, start with the New York and Hollywood crowd.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 12/12/2022 4:38:02 PM (No. 1355026)
YES START WITH JANE FONDA!
And Joy Behar, Susan Sarandon, Chrissie Tiegen, that trevor person from south africa, Alec Baldwin, Robert Deniro...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Califedup 12/12/2022 4:39:12 PM (No. 1355028)
Pompeo was given the Hunter Biden laptop files by Mayor Rudy G and he did nothing with them instead kept silent. Shut up and go way Pompeo. That phony blowhard Hannity was also given the Hunter Biden laptop files and he also kept silent. Let that sink in. Tick tock, tick tock.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 12/12/2022 4:49:31 PM (No. 1355036)
If only.....
He's trying to cheer me up.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 12/12/2022 6:27:42 PM (No. 1355067)
Poster #2 nailed it one: "I think that’s been the reasoning in these matters for 100+ years."
What do you get when you feed a squirrel? More squirrels. The Dotard in Chief's handlers just fed a squirrel.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/12/2022 6:29:55 PM (No. 1355069)
What genius. I just said that to friends last night. Taking hostages to barter
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Norway 12/12/2022 8:25:50 PM (No. 1355140)
Taking leftist celebrities hostage....is that a bad thing?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 12/12/2022 8:33:34 PM (No. 1355148)
NorthernDog, there is no indication that Russia maintains the ability to rapidly seize territory in Ukraine. They are a spent force. And it is obvious they've been bluffing the world for 30 years about their military competence. They really are a joke.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ronniethek 12/13/2022 4:28:41 AM (No. 1355278)
Depending on which 'celebrity this involved this could be a net plus.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
broken01 12/13/2022 7:39:52 AM (No. 1355334)
Yes, start with that witch Jane Fonda. Then Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Susan Sarandon, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett, Kerry Washington, Jennifer's Lawrence, Lopez, Coolidge, Aniston and Tilly, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Moore, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Sara Gilbert, Rob Reiner,,,,,,,
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