Ex-Trump adviser David Urban defended the Biden administration's swap to free Brittney Griner after critics implied that they favored her release over Paul Whelan's. '[P]eople believe it's an either or, that they had a choice. They don't have a choice.'
. Critics of the swap for Griner, including Trump, have implied that the Biden administration had favored her release over Whelan's.
It said last week that it had a choice between bringing Griner home in exchange for Bout or bringing home no Americans wrongfully detained in Russia.Urban disagreed with the implication that the Biden administration had a choice between bringing Griner or Whelan home, saying, "None of this is very easy."
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