This is going to be used for propaganda in Russia.

This is what occurs when there isn't a strong president in the White House. Mr. Whelan was encouraged to go to Russia for the wedding of a friend. He was set up. Americans allow themselves to fall into a dangerous status when visiting communist countries.

It absolutely is a sham trial that started with lies in charging him.

June 15, 2020
By Scott Neuman

Paul Whelan, (click here) a U.S. citizen who was arrested in Moscow in 2018 on charges of espionage, has been found guilty in a closed trial and sentenced to 16 years in prison in a case that has strained relations between the two countries.

The verdict was read in a Moscow court on Monday as Whelan stood in the defendant's cage holding a sign that read "Sham trial!"...





Russia has walked all over Trump from the beginning. This is just one more time.