Big difference.
Via Daily Caller:
Three Americans held hostage in North Korean prisons have returned home after intense pressure and strategic diplomacy by the Trump administration.
The move is a sweeping win for the muscular foreign policy prescriptions of the Trump administration.
The hostages spent at least a year in captivity in North Korea but were released without preconditions in the lead-up to a historic summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12.
The good-faith release of the American citizens by a hostile world power marked a stark pivot from the diplomatic wanderings of Trump’s predecessor.
It has long been U.S. policy to not negotiate with terrorists or put a price on the heads of Americans held by hostile foreign powers. Obama, however, flouted this norm, opting on multiple occasions to make preconditions and payments to foreign actors in exchange for American lives.
One of the most well-known instances was Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal.