Putin is strengthening his leverage against Trump by jailing US citizens and sentencing them to dozens of years of hard labor in Putin’s penal colonies, in order to pressure Trump to cut off aid to Ukraine and release Russian murderers and assassins from international jails. Michael Popok reports on the 16-year hard labor sentence just handed down against a Wall Street Journal reporter, and how it fits into Putin’s plan to extort Trump to do his bidding and win the war against Ukraine.

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