“This is a huge victory for Moscow over Washington,” former national security director John Bolton declared this morning on CBS. “It endangers other Americans in the future, who can be gra.
“This is a huge victory for Moscow over Washington,” former national security director John Bolton declared this morning on CBS. “It endangers other Americans in the future, who can be grabbed and used by bargaining chips,” he said of the swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout, one of the world’s most dangerous men before his arrest and conviction.
Bolton also revealed in this clip that the Trump administration had an offer to trade Paul Whelan for Bout two years ago. They passed, and as Bolton says, “for very good reasons” (via Caleb Howe at Mediaite):
Why didn’t the Trump administration agree to swap Bout? The so-called Merchant of Death still represents a massive threat to the US and its allies if he decides to go back into arms trafficking and supporting terror groups like FARC in South America, and reportedly the Taliban and al-Qaeda in the Middle East, not to mention terror networks in Africa and Asia.
