This is from a
statement by Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
The Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griners of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called ‘Merchant of Death.’ Nothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.
I'm glad Griner is back home, but he ain't wrong about Bout.