At his rally Saturday in Georgia, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin for criticizing President Joe Biden over the prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Germany, Norway, Poland and Slovenia last week. .
In the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War, 8 countries’ prisoners were returned to Russia in exchange for the release of 16 other people the Russians were holding on false charges, including journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Navy Paul Whelan.
Trump and other Republicans would criticize the deal (or see it as a victory for Trump) as soon as Thursday.
At his rally on Saturday, Trump reiterated his comment from this week, criticizing Biden for the deal and saying it was all in Putin’s interest. He said he set a “bad precedent,” directing some of his comments to Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt. Jones into the crowd to insist.
“I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for once again making a smart deal. Have you noticed the agreement we reached?” Trump said on the sidelines of the rally. “They released some of the biggest killers in the world, some of the biggest bad guys. ” murderers they have had. “
By the way, I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on having once again achieved a wonderful agreement. Did you see the deal we made? Now look, we need to bring in more people. You know, we have 59 hostages. I never paid anything. They have freed some of the world’s greatest killers. They had some of the most evil killers.
And they gave us back our other people, but, my God, we made terrible, terrible deals. And it’s great to say that they were returned to us. But does this set a bad precedent?Burt, right? Does this set a bad precedent, Burt?
Watch the clip above from Sky News.
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