The White House is condemning Russia after the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, on espionage charges.
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The Biden administration strongly condemned Russia's detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges Thursday and said it was working to provide American Evan Gershkovich with consular access.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Gershkovich, 31, in the eastern city of Yekaterinburg earlier Thursday.
"The targeting of American citizens by the Russian government is unacceptable," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. "We also condemn the Russian government’s continued targeting and repression of journalists and freedom of the press."
The Journal denied the spy allegations, issuing a statement requesting the immediate release of "our trusted and dedicated" Moscow-based reporter.
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Slingin’ fent pays BIG, doesn’t it?!
“Every American detained abroad is wrongfully detained” 🤣
@Alejandro Diaz oh but once in Cancun we saw a man getting arrested for beating his gf or wife at the beach. I don’t honestly think that guy was a spy.
Nevermind text is hard to read intent. I get it. Just seems your follow up sentence didn’t match your initial statement in response that was my ignorance
@Vintage MJ maybe he found out the wife was a spy🤣🤣🤣
@Alejandro Diaz 😂 that’s messed up but definitely possible lol
@Alejandro Diaz Okay, yeah I can see that could have come off that way.
I’m pretty sure this had something to do with the early release of the qanon shaman.. preemptive damage control😅
American journalist in Russia????? That’s as smart as Bill and Hillary vacationing in Haiti.
Dammit man 😂 😂
Well, if JP says it’s ridiculous, given her penchant for truth, it must be true. 🤣😂🤣😂
And you’re a fantastic judge of character as a matter of fact I bet you think putin is a war hero and not some lunatic going after a country that doesn’t belong to Russia at all despite the fact he says otherwise
@Sammy k No Sammy, Putin is a bad guy. Why don’t you go to Russia and hang out as an American and write about what’s going on in Russia and see how it works out for you?
Or I know. What don’t you go over the border to Mexico and interview drug cartel members and write about their life?
How dare you! She’s black, she’s female, she has poodle hair and a French double-name! She’s not capable of lying!
They let the drug smuggler go but will keep this man
Who they going to be asking for now???? If we changed a weapon smuggler for a vape of weed imagine spionage? Every single Russian
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Oop time to trade the president
@Juan for 2 years now 😳
Let’s trade all of Congress for the reporter
Oh NO!! Not in THE STRONGEST TERMS!! I bet that’ll get Putin to knock it off and leave Ukraine. It’s all fun and games until the strongest possible terms 😮
I agree.
What about american journalist who tell the truth about our govt
probably dead they usually dont last long
They end up camping out inside foreign embassies
The DNC presstitute needs to step down.
So WHAT happened to 1000 US civil employees stuck in……….
Afghanistan? YOU READ MY MIND!
Just trade them nuclear codes and a few of their imprisoned scientists for him. Seems fair
Declares Russia a terrorist organization:😜
Surprised Pikachu face when Russia kidnaps American:😮
Sucks for that guy, wish he would have considered the risk he was taking.
Nothing will happen to him, maybe he shouldn’t have done spying while overseas
The Marine has been in a Russian prison for years but we got WNBA star Britney Griner back by trading the Lord of War for her.
Yet we “support our troops” this country truly full of hypocrites 🤣🤣
Tim is a Republican. Let it be known..
Came hear to read the comments on how many arms dealers for this guy. Precedent man
Imagine that why should anyone believe anything she says
Well they better serve up someone as serious as they did for the WNMBA player. Otherwise is this just a joke?