This week, former President Donald Trump received a dire warning and a peculiar offer.
According to Newsweek, Russia’s “merchant of death” offered Trump asylum, claiming the former president’s life is in danger if he remains in the United States.
During an interview on a Russian state television channel, Viktor Bout, a notorious international arms dealer portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 film “Lord of War,” revealed to a reporter that he had sent a telegram to Donald Trump warning him of an imminent threat to his life and urging him to seek refuge in Russia.
According to Bout, Trump’s life is not threatened by an assassin or an unknown conspiracy. Rather, it is from the former president’s own government, as a result of an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into allegations that Trump falsified business documents to conceal a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election, Newsweek reported.
“Trump was arraigned this week on 34 counts related to that charge. He has denied all wrongdoing in the case, as well as an affair that Daniels claims they had,” the report said.
Bout told Russia-24, “The legal process that has now begun in New York will not merely result in Donald Trump being convicted and barred from the [2024] election.
The "merchant of death" Viktor Bout says he has sent a message to Donald Trump offering him political asylum in Russia
He warns that Trump's life is in danger in the US and calls on the ex-president to lead an "uprising against the globalists" from abroad pic.twitter.com/5C7KJcWom3
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) April 7, 2023
“Most likely, he will simply be eliminated there,” he continued. “Therefore, I think it’s in the best interests of all of humanity and primarily all of the American people to invite Donald Trump here, to Russia, to give him security and protection here so that he leads this uprising against the globalists and, most importantly, does not allow the elimination of the American people.”
In December, the Biden administration agreed to exchange Bout, who was serving time for arms trafficking, for WNBA player Brittney Griner, who had been imprisoned in Russia earlier last year after being convicted of a drug charge.
“The one-for-one exchange agreement negotiated with Moscow in recent weeks was given final approval by President Biden within just the last week, according to sources familiar with the deal. The swap, first reported by CBS News, took place on Thursday in the United Arab Emirates,” the outlet noted further.
“A White House official said President Biden was in the Oval Office Thursday morning on the phone, speaking with Griner, and her wife Cherelle Griner and Vice President Kamala Harris were also in the room. Per standard procedure for freed U.S. prisoners, Griner was expected to quickly undergo a medical evaluation,” the outlet continued.
Biden wrote in a tweet from his official Twitter account, “She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home.”
In August, it was reported that Russian officials verified that Moscow was in negotiations to trade Griner and another American being held in Russia, Paul Whelan, for Bout, the infamous “Merchant of Death” arms dealer who has been imprisoned in the United States since 2010.
At the time, a former DEA agent called this potential agreement “dangerous” for the United States and the West.
In an opinion piece for USA Today, Rob “Zach” Zachariasiewicz advised against trading Bout for Griner.
More on this story via Conservative Brief:
“Bout…provided the fuel for conflicts across the globe. He was a critical player in the global illicit arms trade not because he could obtain weapons but because he could deliver his destructive cargo anywhere in the world through his control of a private fleet of military aircraft. And he did just that,” the former DEA agent wrote. CONTINUE READING…
