US presidential candidate Donald Trump has congratulated Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin on a “wonderful agreement” involving a prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries.
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I would like to congratulate Putin on having concluded another wonderful agreement. […] God, we make terrible, terrible deals. It’s nice to say we get them.
[ув’язнених] returned, but doesn’t this create a bad precedent? – said the former US President at a rally in Georgia.
Trump said the Russians had outsmarted American officials in the largest such deal since the end of the Cold War.
Trump has dismissively called the deal inferior to deals he negotiated, exaggerated the number of prisoners released while he was president and lied about both how they were released and the terms of Biden’s deal.
Did you see the deal that we made? Now look, we want to bring in people. We have 59 hostages – I never paid anything. They fired some of the biggest killers in the world,” Trump continued. “Some of the worst killers they had. And we got our people back, but we made terrible, terrible deals. And it’s nice to say we got them back, but does that set a bad precedent?
Trump’s claims about the number of prisoners he has released have been somewhat hesitant — he previously claimed to have released 58 prisoners. While there have been prisoner releases in other countries during the Trump administration, the exact number is unknown, but it is less than that.
Furthermore, Trump’s claim that he “never paid anything” is obviously true in monetary terms, but the suggestion that Biden paid money for his historic deal is a lie.
Meanwhile, under one 2020 deal the Trump administration struck with Iran to release two American prisoners, more than 200 Houthi fighters held in Oman were released and allowed to return to Yemen.
A total of 24 people took part in the recent exchange. The Muscovites handed over 16 people to the Americans (including citizens of Germany, the USA and Russians), while Russia received eight Russian citizens.
Among those released were 16 prisoners released from Russia, including five Germans and seven Russian citizens who had been held as political prisoners. President Biden thanked Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Turkey for helping facilitate the prisoner swap between the countries. He did not praise Putin in his comments.
Source: Racurs
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