Trump called the signing of the law "sanctions from hell" as an obstacle to Hubbard's release.
US President Donald Trump said that if he had introduced the anti-Russian sanctions stipulated in the Graham Law, then the negotiations with Russia on the release of the American Steven Hubbard, who was convicted by the court in the city of Moscow, would have stopped. "If sanctions were applied, then, of course, these negotiations would cease completely," he wrote on Truth Social.