Trump for the first time calls for release of WSJ reporter [Video]

Former President Donald Trump, in an interview published Tuesday, called for the first time for Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained for more than a year.”The reporter should be released and he will be released,” Trump told Time magazine when asked about Gershkovich. “I don’t know if he’s going to be released under (President Joe) Biden. I would get him released.”Gershkovich has been detained in Russia since March 2023 on an espionage charge that the Journal and U.S. authorities have said is baseless. Trump, who has famously been reluctant to criticize the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said his previous public silence on Gershkovich was “because I have so many other things I’m working on.”The Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on March 29, 2023. Gershkovich is the first journalist to be arrested on such charges …