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TexasTowelie

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Wed Mar 30, 2022, 11:49 PM Mar 2022

Trevor Reed's Family Meets With President Biden

Source: NBC-DFW

The parents of a Marine veteran imprisoned in Russia met with President Joe Biden and senior staffers at the White House on Wednesday.

Trevor Reed has been jailed in Russia since his arrest in 2019 on charges that he assaulted police officers in Moscow who were driving him to a police station after picking him up following a night of heavy drinking at a party. He was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to nine years in prison.

Joey and Paula Reed of Granbury, traveled to Washington this week to seek an in-person meeting with Biden after a phone conversation earlier this month when the president visited Texas. After the Reeds had stood along the route of Biden's motorcade in Texas in hopes it would stop — it did not — the White House said it would work to schedule a meeting.

The Reeds, who have publicly voiced concern about their son’s health in jail and have also expressed support for the idea of a prisoner swap, stood near the White House on Wednesday with a sign that read: “Free Trevor Reed. Prisoner of Russia Since 2019.”

Read more: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/trevor-reeds-family-planning-demonstration-in-front-of-white-house/2927678/



Brittney Griner is not the only American being held in Russian jail.
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I missed having a real POTUS who cares about people LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #1
Hostile Foreign Governments 40+ Americans Hostage... GB_RN Mar 2022 #2

GB_RN

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2. Hostile Foreign Governments 40+ Americans Hostage...
Thu Mar 31, 2022, 07:52 AM
Mar 2022

At this time, according to a story I heard yesterday on NPR. Most of them are held by Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela.

Hostile foreign governments hold more Americans hostage than criminal and terrorist groups combined.

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