— and that's not our opinion, either, by the way — agreed to trade a notorious Russian arms dealer, Viktor Bout, for Brittney Griner, an LGBTQ professional women's basketball player who hates America, the initial reaction in virtually all corners of Congress and the political commentariat was a combo of anger and disbelief.

Bout, convicted in 2011 of attempting to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of missiles to Colombian guerillas so they could shoot down U.S. helicopters, was dubbed the "Merchant of Death" at the time and sentenced to decades behind bars.

His release was so egregious, in fact, that even Democrats were critical of Biden, and that doesn't happen very often at all.

"This should be a moment of deep reflection for the United States government to recognize we have a serious problem with hostage-taking of Americans," Sen. Bob Menedez (D-N.J.), head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said after hearing the news.

"The Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griners of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called 'Merchant of Death,'" Menendez continued. "Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.