Austin Tices mom says Trump already offering to help bring him home from Syria after Biden did nothing
President Trump has already promised to do everything he can to bring home Austin Tice, the Marine veteran who vanished more than 12 years ago while working as a journalist in Syria, according to his mom.Trump’s people reached out even before he re-entered the White House on Monday — while President Biden did nothing during his four years in office, Debra Tice said Sunday.“I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely engage in diligent work to bring Austin home,” the hopeful-sound mom said during her first visit to Damascus since insurgents toppled President Bashar Assad last month.“His people have already reached out to me.I haven’t experienced that for the last four years,” she said of Biden’s time in office.Tice, a freelance reporter, disappeared near the Syrian capital in 2012.
He has not been heard from other than a video released weeks later that showed him blindfolded and held by armed men — and saying, “Oh, Jesus.”Syria has publicly denied holding the Marine vet hostage.But Debra Tice said the family had information from an unidentified source that he is alive, leading to her optimism that Trump will help bring him home.Biden told reporters in December that “Assad should be held accountable” for Tice not being home, while only saying that his administration had “no direct evidence” of his well-being.Debra Tice said she had a productive meeting with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of Syria’s new administration, who was “dedicated and determined” to help her get reunited with her son, as well as helping others who are still missing.She also visited two military intelligence prisons in Syria, known for their mass incarceration and systematic use of torture, which she described as an “unbelievably, horrible nightmare.”“Austin, if you can somehow hear this, I love you.
I know you’re not giving up, and neither am I,” Debra Tice said.Tice, originally from Houston, was covering the anti-Assad uprising in ...