David Whelan, brother of detained American Paul Whelan, said in an MSNBC interview Saturday that President Biden 'made the right choice' in choosing to bring WNBA star Brittney Griner home from Russia.
that Biden is “100% engaged on bringing Paul home” and that the president made the right choice with the options on the table.He said that the White House does not need more pressure to bring his brother home, either.
"I think what they have done is they’ve essentially run through the resources that they thought they might be able to get the Russians to accept as a concession," David Whelan said on . "I mean, this is all about extortion. Paul was taken as a political prisoner and Russia is trying to extort something from the U.S."Whelan's family said that they were told by the Biden administration that the former Marine would not be included in the exchange,
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