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2024-08-01 17:29:09 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 1BACBD03E783B643A6D1341B9930DFE849284652D271F71DD76FD32680BC0E61
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Two of the three prisoners were taken & tried after Trump left office in 2021; he was not POTUS at the time – Gerskovich was arrested in 2023: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-long-struggle-to-free-evan-gershkovich-from-a-moscow-prison/ So was Kurmasheva: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-us-journalist-alsu-kurmasheva-prison-sentence-ukraine-war/ Only Paul Whelan was arrested (2018) & convicted (June 2020) during Trump’s presidency: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/world/paul-whelan-sentenced-russia-intl/index.html
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