AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Russia frees gravely ill Marine veteran Robert Gilman after Trump intervenes with Putin
Russia released American Marine veteran Robert Gilman on humanitarian grounds after more than four years of disputed imprisonment, a unilateral move secured by President Trump with no prisoner exchange and no concessions. Gilman, 32, a Massachusetts teacher and former Marine, left Russian custody on Tuesday after spending 47 days in what his advocates described as […] The post Russia frees gravely ill Marine veteran Robert Gilman after Trump intervenes with Putin appeared first on American Almanac .
Russia released American Marine veteran Robert Gilman on humanitarian grounds after more than four years of disputed imprisonment, a unilateral move secured by President Trump with no prisoner exchange and no concessions. Gilman, 32, a Massachusetts teacher and former Marine, left Russian custody on Tuesday after spending 47 days in what his advocates described as "a dissociative stupor," hooked up to a feeding tube and handcuffed to a hospital bed. He was en route to a U.S. military hospital in Texas for medical and psychological treatment, with Trump posting that Gilman would first arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Tuesday evening. Eric Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, the group that had been working to…Open