Trevor Reed, 30, returned to the U.S. late last month after serving nearly three years jailed in Russia.
“You felt they might kill you?” host Jake Tapper asked. “Yes. I thought that was a possibility,” Reed replied.Reed was arrested in the summer of 2019 in Russia, accused of assaulting a police officer — claims his family denies — andHe was returned to the U.S. in April in a prisoner swap for convicted Russian drug trafficker Konstantin Yaroshenko, whose 20-year prison sentence in the U.S. in 2010 was commuted.
“A lot of people are not going to like what I’m gonna say about this, but I kind of viewed their — having hope as being a weakness,” he said. “So I did not wanna have that hope of, like, me, you know, being released somehow and then have that taken from me.”earlier this month outside of the White House that his son was recovering at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio under the care of Army experts.
Reed’s case has led to renewed demands for the release of fellow Marine Paul Whelan and WNBA star Brittany Griner.
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