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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

this is Potomac Watch. Welcome to Potomac Watch.

Welcome to Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal.

Opinion Pages, I'm Paul Gogne, the editor of those pages, and today we're going to talk about

the controversy over

Donald Trump's remarks to the National Association of Black Journalists but first I

want to express relief and gratitude on behalf of all of us at the journal for the

release of our reporter Evan Gerschkovic today from a Russian prison.

Evan was unjustly held for more than a year on spurious espionage charges, which Russia never really specified.

His release was part of a large multi-country prisoner swap involving 24 people.

That included former Marine Paul Whalen, who has been held for several years by Russia. Special credit here goes to Germany and its

Chancellor Olaf Schultz who was willing to release Vadim Krasikov, a Russian assassin who killed

the Chechen Emmigrade in a public park in Germany.

Krasikov seemed to be the main demand of the Kremlin and that old KGB spy Vladimir Putin Schultz held out for the release of several Russian dissidents

and obtained them.

Evan was the first journalist arrested in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union and it signaled the new era of

state-sponsored kidnapping to force prisoner swaps and to embarrass America.

This has become a real problem. The United States is going to have to deal

with in the future because states will see that Russia has succeeded and Iran of course has practiced

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