A spokesperson for the family of Joseph St. Clair, a U.S. Air Force combat veteran wrongfully detained by Venezuela since last fall whose release was secured Tuesday, told Newsmax that St. Clair wouldn’t be coming home if not for President Donald Trump.

Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, secretly traveled to Antigua on Tuesday morning to meet with top Venezuelan officials and gain St. Clair’s release. The U.S. claimed St. Clair, 33, was wrongfully detained by Venezuelan authorities while he was traveling in Colombia along the Venezuela border.

“This was possible today only because President Trump has made such a priority of bringing home Americans that are unjustly detained abroad,” Jonathan Franks told “Finnerty.”

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