Former National Security Council Russia specialist Fiona Hill told CBS News that there was a potential prisoner swap raised during the Trump administration of Marine veteran Paul Whelan for Viktor Bout but that Donald Trump wasn’t “particularly interested.”
Hill said that a prisoner swap was raised several times by Russian officials who “had every intent” on trading Americans wrongfully detained overseas for individuals in U.S. custody.
Said Hill: “He was not particularly interested in Paul’s case in the way that one would have thought he would be.”
Trump claimed on social media that he turned down a deal.
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