Posted on 03/22/2025 2:26:24 PM PDT by Kazan
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has turned into a key piece of manpower in the Donald J. Trump administration when it comes to high-level negotiations.
Witkoff comes from a real estate investor and lawyer background, having held no formal diplomatic posts until Trump called him to serve.
Despite that, the 45-47th US President has trusted him with not one, but two seemingly impossible tasks: to negotiate peace in the Middle East and also to head the détente process with Russia, achieving an end to the war in Ukraine.
The Special Envoy was received twice by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is highly unusual, and has been able so far to move the needle in the peace negotiations.
Witkoff is not afraid to say he liked Putin, WATCH at link.
Tucker: What do you think of Putin?
Witkoff: I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me.
The Tucker Carlson interview with Witkoff is peppered with great moments, but the main revelation may be that, according to Witkoff, Putin attended church to pray for Trump after the 2024 assassination attempt: ‘he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed for the president, not because he could become the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him and he was praying for his friend’.
Putin also presented Trump with a specially commissioned portrait painted by one of Russia’s leading artists.
Steve Witkoff: “In the second visit that I had, it got personal. The president, President Putin, had commissioned a beautiful portrait of President Trump from the leading Russian artist, and actually gave it to me and asked me to take it home to President Trump, which I brought home and delivered to him. It’s been reported in the paper, but it was such a gracious moment, and told me a story, Tucker, about how when the president was shot, he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed for the president, not because he was the president of the United, he could become the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him and he was praying for his friend.
It was, I mean, can you imagine sitting there and listening to these kinds of conversations? And I came home and delivered that message to our president and delivered the painting, and he was clearly touched by it. So this is the kind of connection that we’ve been able to reestablish through, by the way, a simple word called communication.”
Amazing. We live in incredible times.
There’s a goodness to Trump that’s naturally contagious. Really love this story. You can imagine a friendship between Putin and Trump and King Charles and Trump and numerous other leaders. I really can’t imagine one between the Ukraine leader and Trump because he’s not a trustworthy friend.
“””I really can’t imagine one between the Ukraine leader and Trump because he’s not a trustworthy friend.”””
I don’t think President Trump takes Zelinsky seriously knowing his clothes came from a G.I. Joe action figure.
We need to see that portrait
I understand our Zeepers are furious 😡
Lol! Of course. 😆
Poor marcusmaximus, this is a double whammy for him.
Trust but verify.
Having said that, 4 years...FOUR FRIGGAN YEARS, and no dialog between Russia and the West. Soecifically the pig face bastard Bidet administration.
FOUR YEARS!
In my view, that alone is enough to charge pig face Bidet with crimes.
LMAO.
As though a real estate investor and lawyer would not have experience negotiating.
🐷face Biden
Specifically...
Gull dang this touch pad on this telephony.
My fault for not checking before posting.
In Before One Of The Zeepers Calls Steve Witkoff A Putin Puffer
[IBOOTZCSWAPP]
We’re doomed! Witkoff and Trump are bigger Putin stooges than me!
I’ve been saying for a while that Putin and Trump are going to reshape this world into something that will improve the safety and lives of Americans for decades to come.
The full interview is 96 minutes long. I highly recommend listening to it all. Once Trump and Putin have solved Ukraine and the Iran/Israel conflict, you’ll see Xi get involved for a Big Three 2.0.
There are only three or four Z bitter enders left. I shouldn’t throw so many stones at them. I was a neocon stooge myself for fifty years. They’ll eventually come around too.
Easy to stay in the same rut with the Gaslight Media pounding the Current Narrative drum 24/7 and using the Same Old Playbook.
I am not friends with President Trump.
I wish I was.
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