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spanone

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2. In other words....'we paid the ransom'.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 12:33 PM

Apr 2019

The White House declined to comment. “We do not comment on hostage negotiations, which is why they have been so successful during this administration,”

a small price to pay to make trump look like the guy who could do what Obama didn't.

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WaPo: North Korea Billed Trump $2 Million for Release of Hostage (Otto Warmbier) [View all] spanone Apr 2019 OP

"We do not comment on hostage negotiations" gratuitous Apr 2019 #1

In other words....'we paid the ransom'. spanone Apr 2019 #2

And apparently the Warmbier situation is counted as a success by the administration gratuitous Apr 2019 #4

Define success? watoos Apr 2019 #7

trump got a few days of good press...worth every penny to him and his cabal spanone Apr 2019 #8

We will pay when they return a fully functioning intelligence ship Pueblo..... nt mitch96 Apr 2019 #3

Hah. Did trump essentially "buy" that hostage release? calimary Apr 2019 #5

Wow, Trump paid for N. Korea's murder of an American, watoos Apr 2019 #6

I wonder how much he paid for the remains.. HipChick Apr 2019 #9