In June 2019, roughly six months after Mr Whelan’s arrest, Mr Bolton ... time in the Trump administration and made it “very clear that they had every intent of trying to swap Americans that ...

Former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump ... prisoner swap is not a trade, it’s an American surrender. This is not what American strength looks like," John Bolton wrote on ...

Former President Trump ... swap freeing WNBA star Brittney Griner in exchange for infamous Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but the administration insists Moscow has treated the case of Whelan ...

"I turned down a deal with Russia for a one-on-one swap," Trump said, noting that the deal concerned Whelan and Bout. "I would have gotten Paul out, however, just as I did with a record number of ...

The Biden administration has said Russia was unwilling to include Whelan in a swap for Bout. Trump said Sunday that, although he turned down the deal with Moscow, he "would have gotten Paul out ...

Following the news of the prison swap ... John Bolton, Trump's former national security advisor, revealed that the ex-president had the chance to trade Whelan for Bout back in 2018, per the ...

Several Republican lawmakers and former President Trump are criticizing President Biden over the prisoner swap for Brittney Griner and for not getting Paul Whelan back in the U.S. as well.

Fiona Hill said some US citizens imprisoned in Russia are caught in "political games." Critics, including Trump, asked why Brittney Griner was freed while Paul Whelan remains jailed. Hill said ...

Although members of Mr Whelan’s family were able to secure at least one meeting with Mr Trump’s then-national security adviser, John Bolton, in mid-2019 ... different permutations” to make a prisoner ...

Donald Trump claimed Sunday that he turned down a prisoner swap deal with Russia which would have seen Viktor Bout, the notorious Russian arms dealer, traded for ex-US Marine Paul Whelan ...