Updated 1:01 PM EDT, Fri March 21, 2025

CNN speaks to Russia’s ‘merchant of death’

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen asks former Russian arms dealer, Viktor Bout, about his views on President Trump. Known to his accusers as the “merchant of death,” Bout was in a US jail for ten years before being exchanged for American basketball player Brittany Griner in a high-profile prisoner swap brokered by the Biden administration in 2022.

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