![]() ![]() Trump has elevated the release of hostages to a level of Presidential involvement not seen since Ronald Reagan occupied the Oval Office. Last week, he was sentenced to ten years in prison.) Navy veteran, disappeared in July of 2018 while visiting his girlfriend in Iran. Xiyue Wang, a graduate student at Princeton, was arrested in August of 2016 and later sentenced to ten years in prison. “All of our families.” (At least two other Americans are currently imprisoned in Iran. “I hope that our families are next,” Zakka said. “We’ve managed to get hostages home from countries that we thought we were going to go to war with imminently.” Omar Zakka, whose father, Nizar, a Lebanese citizen and permanent resident of the United States, was arrested in 2015 while attending a human-rights conference in Iran, said that he would be grateful to simply hear Trump call for his father’s release publicly. “The only way is through dialogue,” Namazi said. “I think it’s necessary for the Trump Administration to make it a priority.” Babak Namazi, whose brother and elderly father were both arrested in Iran three years ago, cited Trump’s freeing of three captives from North Korea last year as a model of success. “After three very different Presidential Administrations, we are no closer to bringing Bob home than when we started,” she said. contractor who went missing in Iran twelve years ago, said that Presidents Bush and Obama had failed her family, and asked Trump to meet with her. Christine Levinson, whose husband, Bob, a former F.B.I. The next day, at a hearing on Capitol Hill, relatives of four of the six Americans currently imprisoned or missing in Iran entreated Trump to bring them home as well. “The President has had unparalleled success in bringing Americans home without paying concessions, without prisoner exchanges, but through force of will and the good will that he’s generated around the world.” “This wouldn’t happen with all of these hostages and detainees without the support of the President,” he said. Burch and O’Brien thanked Trump, who then boasted of his success in freeing hostages: “Well, I will say, Danny, we’re 20 and 0. We’ve gotten a lot of them out.” O’Brien said that the President’s leadership and popularity were responsible for an unprecedented number of Americans being released from captivity abroad. Senators Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney, who were in the White House for a meeting on trade talks with China, were also called in. Vice-President Mike Pence and Robert O’Brien, the Administration’s Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, sat on nearby couches. Trump had gathered a group of senior officials to meet Burch. Burch paused for a moment, and said, “Gosh, it’s great to be an American.” also played a role), and then asked the former captive if he wanted to say anything. ![]() “You can call him whatever you want, but it wasn’t good.” Trump then thanked the United Arab Emirates for conducting a raid that freed Burch (the C.I.A. “He was in Yemen, in a very horrible situation-a captive, a prisoner,” Trump said. ![]() In an Oval Office ceremony, Danny Burch, an oil-company engineer who had been held captive by a criminal gang in Yemen for eighteen months, sat beside the President in a chair typically occupied by visiting heads of state. Unfortunately, those gifts come at a high cost, but as Thor points out, it’s either cooperate voluntarily or have what the aliens want taken by force, an arrangement that seemingly only Richard Nixon is okay with as long as he gets to be the POTUS one day (and Sarah Paulson‘s Mamie Eisenhower is okay with so long as she’s more popular than Eleanor Roosevelt).Earlier this month, President Trump welcomed another American hostage home. As it turns out, humans could have landed on the moon, it’s just not worth the effort to do so because there’s no scientific benefit that won’t come from the inside of Valiant Thor’s metal briefcase. Except, in the world of Death Valley, that’s exactly how it happened, and that pristine sound stage (presumably used to fake other moon landings since then, and kept ready to fake Elon Musk’s first successful moon landing) is one of Calico’s favorite spots when she needs to get away from the world of forced impregnation, blinding white lights, and weird gelatin cube dinners. That story, of course, is the moon landing, which as we all know was famously faked in a sound stage at Area 51 by Stanley Kubrick. ![]()
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