Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the Biden administration to provide details of the prisoner swap that resulted in Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and others being released as part of the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
“So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them?,” Trump said in the post, going on to complain that “we never make good deals” and to claim that as president he “got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING.”
The swap involved 24 detainees and seven countries, and Turkey said it played a mediator role. A host of Russian dissidents were also freed and Moscow also got a convicted Russian assassin who had been jailed in Germany.
