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The ReidOut

house did not respond to her request for comment on her story. none of this stopped trump himself from ranting on saying -- >> are we really going to pretend that trump cares about members of the military, who called americans who died in war suckers, who ridiculed john mccain saying, i like people who weren't captured. who has mocked the military his entire life. we going to believe he cares about the military? you have to wonder if any of these people attacking biden even knew who paul whelan was. according to a 2020 new yorker piece, trump raised whelan's attention with putin along with trevor reed. before yesterday's truth social post, trump never mentioned paul

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The ReidOut

that putin was just waiting for the right moment when he needed a boost in the public. that's what he needs now because of how bad the war is going in ukraine. i just wish people would allow the families to be happy, obviously the hostages have come home. and for the other family, you know, the whelan family and many others. that we all rally around and try to help get them out. >> the challenge for the right, of course, this is a black woman, she's lbgtq, she was for black lives matter. so they didn't care if she stayed there for the rest of her life. she's not a fellow american to them. this is the reaction we have seen if past cases.

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The ReidOut

then we have mccarthy who aid lobster under a south lawn temperature with the president's son, hunter. you know, the person he's sickly obsessed with investigating. you thought your holiday dinners were awkward. here's somewhat he had to say about swapping griner for victor boot using the russian nickname, the merchant of death. >> think about the exchange here. the merchant of death for a wnba star who was picked up for marijuana. >> here's the thing, these republicans criticizing griner's return, but they are leaving out an important fact. whelan was left behind, by donald trump. whelan was incarcerated in 2018 in russia during trump's presidency. he was, in fact, a trump supporter. according to pbs, whelan visited russia often. he had a profile on russia's equivalent of facebook.

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The ReidOut

in 2016, he wrote in russian, onward, president trump. and on inauguration day, he wrote, god save president trump. in 2019, the atlantic wrote a piece on whelan's sister. one goal in life was to get president trump to pay attention to her brother's case, noting that he used a court appearance in moscow in 2019 to beg for trump's assistance. tweet your intentions he pleaded. yet trump stayed silent. fast forward to thursday, when donald trump, jr. joined the pile-on, on twitter saying the biden administration was apparently worried that their dei score would go down if they freed an american marine. elena plot, the writer of that piece tweeted paul whelan begged your father for a tweet about him, adding that the trump white

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CNN Newsroom Live

u.s. would never give up on whelan. moscow is treating whelan different than griner, totally illegitimate reasons. whelan said he was surprised that he had been left behind. jim sciutto reports. >> reporter: paul whelan's odyssey in russia's criminal justice system began on december 28th, 2018. former marine, he was arrested in moscow during a trip for the wedding of a fellow marine to a russian woman. >> ended up taking a group of them as part of their tour through the kremlin. >> russia's federal security service accused him of being a spy. whelan had visited russia before, including as early as 2006 while on a two-week deployment from iraq. whelan moved to the u.s. as a child. he has u.s., canadian, british, irish citizenship. whelan joined the marine

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butina who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to influence u.s.-russia relations. she's been held for five months and russia is not happy. >> what this looks like, at least, is the russians simply doing tit for tat. what they'll do in response and other countries have done in response is just arbitrarily pick up someone who isn't responsible or guilty of anything just to create pressure and leverage on us. >> reporter: so, russia isn't saying what they allege they have on whelan, and the state department isn't saying whether russia's being forthcoming with information. what we do know is what we hear from our analysts here, even based on what we know about whelan now, they're saying they feel it's highly unlikely he would be involved in the u.s. intelligence community. first of all, because of his dishonorable discharge from the military but also they say this is just not the way a u.s. espionage operation would work, that they wouldn't just send somebody over there as a sort of contractor in this way. erin? >> michelle, thank you very much. let's go now to bob bayer,

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