The Usual MAGA Hypocrisy
NEWSWEEK Former President Donald Trump attacked President Joe Biden
for failing to secure the release of former Marine Paul Whelan
in Thursday's prisoner swap with Russia, even though Trump
was sitting in the White House for HALF of the time that
Whelan has been imprisoned overseas!
"Why wasn't former Marine Paul Whelan included
in this totally one-sided transaction?" Trump asked.
"He would have been let out for the asking. What a
'stupid' and unpatriotic embarrassment for the USA!!!"
Note that Whelan was taken political hostage in December 2018, under Donald Trump's watch!! No doubt the Russians felt emboldened by Trump's humiliating "Helsinki sellout" just 5 months earlier.
If Trump thinks it's so easy to get him released, as he stated above, then why didn't Trump secure Whelan's release in the 2+ years he had in office before Biden??? WTF???.
This fact is being almost entirely ignored across conservative media