« on: May 01, 2025, 06:31:03 am »
https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/us-news/steve-witkoff-shouldnt-be-leading-iran-russia-negotiations-allies-and-insiders-say/President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, former real estate attorney and investor Steve Witkoff, has left administration insiders distressed by his approach to negotiating with two of America’s greatest adversaries.
Witkoff, who has become Trump’s de facto personal ambassador to Russian President Vladimir Putin in addition to taking on the Middle East portfolio, takes part in high-level meetings alone — and is said to have even occasionally leaned on Kremlin translators — in a break with longstanding diplomatic procedure, multiple sources told The Post.
Ahead of Witkoff’s most recent meeting with Putin this past Friday, the New York native greeted the Kremlin tyrant like an old friend — with no sign of the usual coterie of advisers, experts and military officers who typically accompany US officials conducting negotiations.
Putin himself did not attend Friday’s meeting solo, but was instead accompanied by aide Yury Ushakov and the head of Moscow’s sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev.
“Anybody engaging in these kinds of talks with Putin would benefit from having experienced Russia hands on his or her team and bringing them along to meetings with the Kremlin,” John Hardie, director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Russia program said of Witkoff’s move.
A member of Trump’s first administration was more succinct.
“Nice guy, but a bumbling f–king idiot,” this person said of Witkoff. “He should not be doing this alone.”
EXCERPT
As suspected, Witkoff's an idiot.
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