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I got a call that he was going to be at the airport,
Witkoff said of Fogel on Wednesday The smartest thing you can do to curry favor with the president of the United States is bring Americans home,
This isn’t anything new. When the president was in his first term, he made it a priority to try and get every prisoner that was held illegally and under duress out of Iran, out of numerous countries where they were being held,
This is something that the Biden administration allegedly tried to do for 3½ years,
Leavitt said at her regular briefing with reporters He’s made bringing Americans home a top priority, and people respond to that,
the U.S. special envoy for hostages, Adam Boehler, told reporters Wednesday We called everybody back in the United States,
The Trump administration traditionally has framed these victories as something that they got without giving anything up,
said Dani Gilbert, an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University who studies hostage negotiations Trump left Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan in Russia. We got them out,
a Biden administration national security official said We brought home dramatically more Americans than he did — and there were fewer unjustly detained Americans when we left office than when he left office"
More broadly, the Biden administration official said ... the first time Witkoff would do whatever the president asked of him,
a White House official said I think he [Fogel] was pinching himself even after three and a half years in prison. I think he considered himself to be fortunate. He's an example of a very, very courageous person and I'm glad I had the privilege to meet him, to know him,
You know, we thought we had a very, very good chance of Marc coming back. We weren't positive. There were still some things that I'm not at liberty to talk about tonight,
the real estate investor said He went because he wanted to establish legal visitation with his children. That's the only reason he went."
Speaking to ABC News, Barnes's sister Carol said My life is threatened in the United States, ... I absolutely want to stay in Russia, or I will die."
Speaking in court, Tater said ... adding: The decision is up to my government."
In October, Russian broadcaster Rossiya aired a clip of Black saying The American, acting in the interests of the Pentagon and a commercial organisation affiliated with it, collected and transferred to a foreign party various information on biotechnological and biomedical topics, including those constituting state secrets, for the subsequent creation by the US of a system of high-speed genetic screening of the Russian population."
Russia's FSB internal security service said Yes, I agree with the charges."
Hubbard pleaded guilty to being a mercenary in Moscow City Court, according to Russia state-owned RIA Novosti news agency, commenting In addition, Leake stored more than 1.6g of mephedrone and 0.54g of pills containing the narcotic drug MDMA at his apartment on Zaporozhskaya Street without the intention of selling them. The drugs were found and seized during operational activities."
The authorities also said RUSSIA's prosecutor is LYING!!! Steve was never a mercenary. He was an English teacher teaching English in foreign countries."
Trisha Hubbard Fox, Hubbard's elder sister, said in a Facebook post There are a lot of things that President Trump brings to the table that secured the release of Fogel,
Reschenthaler told Fox News Digital
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