Could rump's "special envoy" Steve Witkoff possibly be a Russian stooge?

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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff says he has developed a 'friendship' with Putin
Mark Stone
Friday 21 February 2025 06:00, UK

... Steve Witkoff was named as Mr Trump's Middle East envoy shortly after the US election but he has since been involved in negotiations with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine ...

"I spent a lot of time with Putin. Talking and developing a friendship and relationship with him…" Mr Witkoff said.

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1. Witkoff travels to Russia to meet Putin

Apr 11, 2025

... This will be the third meeting between Witkoff and Putin ...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/11/russia-witkoff-putin-meeting-ukraine-trump

[lark]

2. Of course he is!! Why else would krasnov send him there but to bow and genuflect to Pooty and give him everything!

Whatever Putin wants, Putin gets is his motto - as long as tsf is personally profiteering greatly from it!

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3. Envoy's embrace of Russian demands worries Republicans, U.S. allies

By Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk
April 11, 20258:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump in the White House and delivered a clear message.

The fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, said Witkoff, was to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of four eastern Ukrainian regions it attempted to annex illegally in 2022, two U.S. officials and five people familiar with the situation told Reuters ...

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-envoys-embrace-russian-demands-worries-republicans-us-allies-2025-04-11/

[kacekwl]

4. Of course he is. And liddle Marco

just telegraphed Putin don't do anything and we'll just abandon Ukraine shortly.

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5. Zelensky accuses rump's envoy of spreading 'Russian narratives'

4 days ago
Tom Bennett
BBC News

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused US special envoy Steve Witkoff of "disseminating Russian narratives" after he appeared to suggest that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine hinged on the status of five Ukrainian regions.

After holding a five-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Witkoff told Fox News that a deal to end the war was "about these so-called five territories".

"I think that Mr Witkoff has taken the strategy of the Russian side," Zelensky told a Kyiv press conference on Thursday.

"I think it's really dangerous, because consciously or unconsciously he is disseminating Russian narratives" ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7wdw9jvno

[Kid Berwyn]

6. If he wasn't before, Witkoff is now.

Zelensky accuses Trump's envoy of spreading 'Russian narratives'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7wdw9jvno

“Narratives” as in “Propaganda.”

[dutch777]

7. Why would he be any different than Trump and his cabinet?

[SheltieLover]

8. Better question: is there any chance anyone in kraznov's admin is not ruskie stooge?

[pandr32]

9. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

just saying.

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10. As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, Witkoff was in Russia

By Joanne Stocker, Emmet Lyons
Updated on: March 26, 2025 / 3:08 PM EDT / CBS News

President Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials — and inadvertently, one journalist — on the messaging app Signal, a CBS News analysis of open-source flight information and Russian media reporting has revealed.

Witkoff arrived in Moscow shortly after noon local time on March 13, according to data from the flight tracking website FlightRadar24, and Russian state media broadcast video of his motorcade leaving Vnukovo International Airport shortly after. About 12 hours later, he was added to the "Houthi PC small group" chat on Signal, along with other top Trump administration officials, to discuss an imminent military operation against the Houthis in Yemen, according to The Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who was included on the chat for reasons that remain unclear.

Goldberg has not recounted Witkoff making any comments in the group chat until Saturday, after he left Russia and returned to the U.S., with a stop on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/

[Karadeniz]

11. Hes a moron.....