Today, Stephen Hubbard is free and headed back home to his family.  Stephen is a proud American citizen, retired teacher, and U.S. Air Force veteran who loves our country. Now, he is on his way back to a family who loves him, a President who never gave up on him, and a nation that proudly welcomes him home. It was my honor to be with Stephen in St. Petersburg today before he departed for the United States. President Trump called Stephen to check on him and reaffirm his unwavering commitment to bringing all Americans wrongfully detained home. Stephen joins more than 110 Americans who @POTUS has freed since returning to office, including Robert Gilman, Ksenia Karelina, and Marc Fogel.  This release was not part of an exchange - and we extend our thanks to President Putin for releasing him on President Trump’s request. Thank you to @SecRubio, @JaredKushner, @CIADirector, Senior Director for Counterterrorism @SebGorka and the rest of the team for working tirelessly to achieve President Trump’s mission.  President Trump does not leave Americans behind and will continue fighting to bring them all home 🇺🇸.

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History will remember Steve Witcoff as a traitor to America for praising Putin as a “humanitarian”. This is your forever legacy. Your children and grandchildren will carry this shame forever.
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How thoughtful of Putin to release someone his own government imprisoned. Truly humanitarian of him.
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Fuck you all the way to hell, you fucking traitor 😡
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Russia has hit Kyiv, Ukraine, with at least 6 ballistic missiles within the last 30 minutes, targeting 3 million civilians and infrastructure, after meeting with Trump's lapdog Witkoff, who praised Putin as a humanitarian and saluted him on behalf of the rogue United States.
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Did he recount how he was tortured and humiliated in "humane" russia-as an American?
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Your fealty to Putin is criminal.
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An international disgrace. Propagandizing for an evil regime.
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sam
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Why did you call Putin a humanitarian when he imprisoned Hubbard in the first place? What about others he’s poisoned and thrown off buildings?
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DICTATOR PUTIN - ILLEGALLY INVADED UKRAINE. PUTIN IS A EVIL (MURDERER) TERRORIST. AND WAR CRIMINAL.
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You forget to say THANK YOU to Putin to take this man as a hostage, Steve!
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Witkoff has to go. Love affair with Putin "You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.”
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Did you tell him that you called his torturer and captor a great humanitarian… show him some pictures of Putin’s “kindness” … let him know the lives lost to win his freedom?
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Etoileluna@etoileluna7716h
Putin kidnapped our fellow American and you're thanking him? Disgraceful
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You evil piece of SHIT, witkoff!!! putin murders Ukrainian BABIES, has MURDERED THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN CHILDREN, and you have the gall to call him a "humanitarian"⁉️ Would you say that if it were YOUR children he were attacking⁉️⁉️ xitter.cf/Gerashchenko_en/status…
Anton Gerashchenko
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Baby Anhelina and her mom Inna were buried today. Anhelina's stroller was put into her grave together with her. She was in the stroller when the Russian drone attacked.
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No country ever paid a higher price to release a hostage from a convicted war criminal.
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you've called a humanist guy who kidnapped him, prisoned and tortured. how about that?
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ARTICLE: OCT. 21. 26 STEVE WITKOFF IS UNDER IMMENSE SCRUTINY - AFTER HIS OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENT, FALSELY CLAIMING PUTIN IS A "HUMANITARIAN". GOP STATEMENTS: "Look up the Definition of ‘Humanitarian." What an EMBARRASSING and OUTRAGEOUS thing to say -- “You should go back to Ukraine and ask the Families of the Children Putin has KIDNAPPED and MURDERED whether they agree your friend Putin is a ‘Humanitarian.’” “NO. PUTIN IS A STONE COLD KILLER".  thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Witkoff faces backlash after calling Putin a ‘humanitarian’

Special envoy Steve Witkoff is facing criticism from lawmakers after calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” for releasing an American who has been held in Russia for years. Presi…

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What a sick person you are calling Putin Humanitarian. Do you have any idea how disgusting that is just days after Russia murdered kids and parents playing in the park. USA is as lost as Russia. Shame on you all.
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Freed because you negotiated with a terrorist you fucking traitor.
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Can’t wait to hear about what a humanitarian Putin has been!
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Randy Forskin 🌻@BRCLMTY16h
You insulted the English language, and the dignity of the United States, by calling this sadistic old terrorist a “humanitarian.” 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️#Just #Stop
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“This release was not part of an exchange” Other than kneeling before Putin by dropping sanctions, buying diesel, siding with Russia over Ukraine and slowing Starlink down placing Ukrainian citizens in danger But really nothing else
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Just one result of Putin's 'Humanitarianism.' – at New Zealand
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US are done.
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I mean… I suspect he was a part of an “exchange” or a bonus tacked on to buying a fortune worth of sanctioned diesel from Russia, but what do I know?
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OK you guys.... what kind of fukery are you really up to with Russia right now ?
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That is certainly good news. However, please remember that appeasing aggression only encourages further aggression. More pressure must be put on the aggressor, not the victim. Please don’t repeat Chamberlain’s mistake in 1938: he returned with shame, and war came anyway.
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Here is Trump rolling out the red carpet for his captor
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Putin, a humanitarian? Do you even know about Alexei Navalny? Putin poisons or starves his political opponents. How dare you? Have you no decency? Your sucking up to this murderer is shameful.
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Shame on you and every member of the depraved Drumpf administration.
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At what price? Calling Putin, a murderous authoritarian, a humanitarian? Slowing Starlink so Russia could bomb more innocent people including children? You are unqualified and no one wants you representing US Citizens and reducing our democracy one bad deal after another. 😡
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You called a war criminal a humanitarian!! that is a slap in the face to the families who have lost tens of thousands of Ukrainians by a murderous regime that you’ve just visited.
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Humanitarian? Are you phucking kidding?
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Holy shit, Witkoff just called Putin a "humanitarian." "You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again." Because of Putin, thousands of Ukrainian civilians are dead, hospitals lie in ruins, and people are suffering from hunger, torture and Russian terrorism.
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