{"id":1410750,"date":"2022-03-30T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410750"},"modified":"2022-03-30T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:15:50","slug":"parents-of-ex-marine-jailed-in-russia-protest-outside-white-house-biden-says-he-wants-to-meet-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-of-ex-marine-jailed-in-russia-protest-outside-white-house-biden-says-he-wants-to-meet-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Of Ex-Marine Jailed In Russia Protest Outside White House. Biden Says He Wants To Meet Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-of-ex-marine-jailed-in-russia-protest-outside-white-house-biden-says-he-wants-to-meet-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he\u2019s trying to organize a meeting with Trevor Reed\u2019s parents, who are protesting in front of the White House as their son remains jailed in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Reed, a former U.S. Marine, was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2020. He was charged with endangering the \u201clife and health\u201d of police officers in Russia \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/30\/russia-sentences-united-states-marine-trevor-reed-nine-years-prison\/\">charge<\/a> that his family denies, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/30\/politics\/trevor-reed-russia-hunger-strike-cnntv\/index.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s parents spoke with Biden in a phone call earlier in March about their son\u2019s situation, but want an in-person meeting as well. They began protesting outside of the White House on Wednesday to try to raise awareness, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna see if I can get to see them,\u201d Biden said Wednesday after a reporter noted that Reed\u2019s parents say he promised them a meeting. \u201cThey\u2019re good people. We\u2019re trying to work that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s parents say the president promised to get a meeting set up nearly a month ago, and this week\u2019s protest is aimed at reminding the administration that they \u201cdid not forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"subtitle1154\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1154\" data-start=\"2957120\" data-end=\"2958755\">\u201cIt was 22 days ago when<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1155\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1155\" data-start=\"2958754\" data-end=\"2960190\">the president said he would have<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1156\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1156\" data-start=\"2960190\" data-end=\"2961190\">someone call us immediately when<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1157\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1157\" data-start=\"2961190\" data-end=\"2963493\">he got back to D.C. and set it<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1158\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1158\" data-start=\"2963493\" data-end=\"2963760\">up,\u201d Paula Reed, his mother, told CNN. \u201c<\/span><span id=\"subtitle1159\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1159\" data-start=\"2963760\" data-end=\"2965195\">The office staff has not called<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1160\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1160\" data-start=\"2965195\" data-end=\"2965461\">us.<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1161\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1161\" data-start=\"2965461\" data-end=\"2966696\">And we wanted to be here to<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1162\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1162\" data-start=\"2966696\" data-end=\"2967997\">bring attention to Trevor\u2019s case<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1163\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1163\" data-start=\"2967998\" data-end=\"2970467\">and to let them know we did not<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1164\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1164\" data-start=\"2970466\" data-end=\"2970833\">forget.<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1165\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1165\" data-start=\"2970834\" data-end=\"2972336\">We are waiting for the phone<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1166\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1166\" data-start=\"2972336\" data-end=\"2972736\">call.<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1167\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1167\" data-start=\"2972736\" data-end=\"2973337\">We want the meeting the<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle1168\" class=\"subtitle\" data-id=\"1168\" data-start=\"2973337\" data-end=\"2977308\">president promised us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As his parents protest outside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/29\/trump-putin-release-details-hunter-biden\/\">White House<\/a> and hope for a meeting with the president, Reed is in the midst of his second hunger strike from jail, his parents also told CNN. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/trevor-reed-parents-joe-biden-vladimir-putin-russia\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0\u2018Let Him Come Home\u2019: Parents Beg Biden To Demand Putin Releases Their Son From Russian Prison)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They mentioned concerns over his apparent treatment while in jail, telling the network that he\u2019s suffering from injuries and \u201chas all the symptoms of active tuberculosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrevor had some sort of injury\u00a0where he thinks he might have a broken rib. Plus, he has all the symptoms of active tuberculosis. He went to a prison hospital for about 10 days. And then they didn\u2019t treat him. They took an X-ray that didn\u2019t work,\u201d Joey Reed, his father, told CNN\u2019s John Berman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when they brought him back to his prison he said, \u2018I need to go back. I\u2019m still hurt and sick.\u2019 And they put him to solitary confinement again, where he had been for most of the last seven months. So he is protesting that. That\u2019s against all Russian regulations and European human rights,\u201d Joey Reed continued.<\/p>\n<p>Reed\u2019s parents have been lobbying <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/22\/joe-biden-promised-2019-end-vladimir-putin-days-tyranny-intimidation\/\">Biden<\/a> for help in bringing their son home to the U.S. They told CNN that they currently plan to be in D.C. until Friday, but may stay longer if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to meet with the President, and we want to talk to him about prisoner swaps because obviously \u2026 asking the Russians to release these hostages has not worked. It is not going to work with any superpower or nuclear power,\u201d Joey Reed said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he\u2019s trying to organize a meeting with Trevor Reed\u2019s parents, who are protesting in front of the White House as their son remains jailed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}