Secretary of State Tony Blinken spoke by phone with US citizen and Putin Regime hostage Paul Whelan on Wednesday, telling the former Marine being held at a remote prison camp in eastern Russia’s Mordavia region to “keep the faith and we’re doing everything we can to bring you home as soon as possible,” sources in the State Department tell CNN. No further details about how the call was arranged were available. Whelan’s detention in Russia is a bit of a sore spot for Republicans who freaked out when Biden secured the release of Black lesbian pothead Britney Griner instead of the boomer-aged white veteran while trying to sidestep the fact that Whelan was arrested more than two years before Trump – who did nothing to try to get him repatriated – left office.