Griner-Bout swap makes it ‘more likely’ celebrities will be taken hostage: SecPompeo
Fox News contributor Mike Pompeo unpacks several foreign and domestic policy issues including the Brittney Griner swap for Viktor Bout and his feud with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.said Sunday that the controversial prisoner swap with Russia, in which WNBA star Brittney Griner was released from Russian detention in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, will make it"more likely" for celebrities and other notables to be taken hostage abroad.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo address the 'Politics and Eggs' speaking series at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, on Sept. 20, 202 in Goffstown, N.H. "My mission was always to get every American back but at the same time not create the risk that more Americans would be taken in," he said."There is no doubt that today not just Vladimir Putin, but all the bad guys, the Iranians, those who hold Americans in detention, see that if you take a celebrity, the chance of getting one of your bad guys back out of American control is greater.
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