Gorka to Newsmax: Trump’s Power Bringing Home Detained Americans

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism, told Newsmax on Monday that “the power of Trump” is bringing wrongfully detained Americans home from overseas and sending America-hating guests in the United States packing.

Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in a Russian labor penal colony after being convicted of treason for donating approximately $50 dollars to a New York-based charity that provides humanitarian aid to Ukraine. She was freed last week in a prisoner exchange with Russia.

“That’s the power of [President Donald] Trump, that is the art of the deal,” Gorka said on “Wake Up America.” “Whether it’s Russia, whether it’s Gaza, whether it’s the border, whether it’s tariffs, we are living the book ‘The Art of the Deal’ right now for all Americans, whether you’re a hostage being freed or whether you’re somebody suffering in one of the states along the southern border. We are here to bring America back.”

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