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Originally Posted by finnbow

Reminder: Your Dear Leader had two years to secure the release of Paul Whelan and accomplished nothing. Indeed, Trump did not mention Mr Whelan’s name a single time during the two years he was held in Russia on his watch, nor did he bring up the former US Marine during a 2019 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump cared far less about Whelan than he did with continuing to be Putin's useful idiot.

There is probably a reason, you need to do some more digging on Mr. Whelan as @Oertes brought up already. I was discussing this with some friends still in Mil Intel yesterday, their take was "we" are not going out of our way to get him back. Why are his other countries not trying to get him released?