Paul Whelan's sister, Elizabeth Whelan, spoke out Wednesday against critics of President Joe Biden's prisoner exchange to secure Brittney Griner's release from Russian detention.
"I was devastated when Brittney came back without Paul to see the hateful comments being made, to see Paul's name being used against the opposing party or against the administration without actually offering any solution for the problem, without really acknowledging that this was Putin, that he had set up the problem," she said at an Atlantic Council event.
At the time, the president made the decision to go ahead with the swap, which officials said was the only deal available to them. Many on Capitol Hill and officials from the previous administration were critical of his choice — specifically leaving Whelan behind again. The president agreed to a swap months earlier that resulted in the return of Trevor Reed, another American who was considered wrongfully detained in Russia.
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