After the Biden administration announced a seven-nation prisoner swap that freed three Americans wrongly imprisoned in Russia but released convicted Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov from a German prison, former President Donald Trump claimed, “I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash.” 

The claim that Trump gave adversaries “nothing” is false: While Trump secured the release of several hostages, there were instances in which his administration released individuals detained in the U.S. to bring an American home. 

Bloomberg fired Jennifer Jacobs after the outlet allegedly broke an embargo on the prisoner swap that freed Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russian custody, New York Magazine’s Charlotte Klein reported Monday.

Jennifer Jacobs, who was the outlet’s senior White House reporter, co-wrote the story on the prisoner swap, however, the outlet published the story before he was officially free, breaking a White House embargo, according to NYMag.

As U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was nearing the end of her meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Munich Security Conference in February, she requested all staff leave the room, aside from one aide each, according to a White House official and senior U.S. official familiar with the meeting. 

Six months from retirement and in desperate need of a foreign policy win, President Joe Biden just got one with the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, Washington Post columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza, and 13 other prisoners from Russia.

The United States and Russia exchanged 24 prisoners Thursday at a moment of terrible tension between the two rivals. After months of ongoing talks, with more than six countries involved in the negotiations, three American citizens and one American green-card holder have been freed in Turkey in the largest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War.

Three US citizens imprisoned in Russia are expected to be released today under a major prisoner exchange deal

Reporter Evan Gershkovich, Marine veteran Paul Whelan, and Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva will be released under the deal agreed by the Biden administration, a senior US official confirms

Others are believed to be part of the exchange, which is expected to take place later today

The exchange will involve 24 prisoners held in Russia, the US, Germany and three other Western countries