Jailed U.S. Citizen Visits White House After Venezuela Release
- Trump pledges more Americans held overseas will be home soon
- Former Mormon missionary had been imprisoned on weapons charge
Joshua Holt, right, attends a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump upon his return to the U.S. at The White House on May 26.
Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Pool/Getty Images
President Donald Trump pledged to soon bring home more Americans held overseas during a meeting at the White House with a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Venezuela since 2016 who was released after pressure from Washington.
“You went through a lot,” Trump told Joshua Holt at the Oval Office, where the former Mormon missionary was joined by his parents, his wife and daughter. It was “amazing that you were able to take it,” Trump said of the 26-year-old. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker and Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee plus Representative Mia Love, all of whom worked toward Holt’s release, were in the room.