Leaked Call Shows Top Trump Aide Teaching Russia How to Suck Up to Trump
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Leaked Call Shows Top Trump Aide Teaching Russia How to Suck Up to Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-call-shows-top-trump-aide-teaching-russia-how-to-suck-up-to-trump/
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What’s the sentencing for seditious traitorous acts?
“Mr Trump your hands are so big”
And done. Now we all know how to suck up to Trump
After the Bubba Gluck incident, I really thought this sentence was going somewhere else.
>Steve Witkoff is teaching a master class to Russian officials on how to get what they want from Donald Trump.
>On Oct. 14, Trump’s special envoy advised Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, on how the Russian dictator should curry favor with Trump before broaching a proposed peace plan between Russia and war-torn Ukraine, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
>During the five-minute call, Witkoff told Putin’s henchman that the Russian president should personally phone Trump, 79, ahead of his planned meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—where Zelensky hoped, but ultimately failed, to secure long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles—to congratulate him on the Gaza ceasefire.
>“My recommendation…. I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace, and you’re just, you’re really glad to have seen it happen,” Witkoff told his foreign counterpart.
>“So I would say that. I think from that it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said, to which Ushakov replied: “Ok, ok my friend. I think that very point our leaders could discuss. Hey Steve, I agree with you that he will congratulate, he will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so. That he will say.”
>Later, Witkoff all but outlined exactly how the conversation between the two leaders should unfold—advising the Putin aide to present a peace plan in a positive, if highly misleading, light.
>“Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to (Gaza’s plan for) peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things—to explore what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done,” he said.
>Witkoff then seemingly acknowledged that Ukraine would make numerous concessions to Russia—more than the president needed to know.
>“Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere,” Witkoff said.
>“But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president, will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal.”
>“You know I have the deepest respect for President Putin,” Witkoff said at one point. When he mentioned Zelensky’s forthcoming visit to the White House, he said he’d be meeting the Ukrainian president only “because they want me there.”
>“But I think if possible we have the call with your boss before that Friday meeting,” he said.
>Sure enough, Trump wrote on Truth Social a few days later that Putin had congratulated him on the “Great Accomplishment of Peace in the Middle East,” and suggested his “Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine.”
>His meeting with Zelensky later that week then reportedly ended in a fiery shouting match.
>After the call, Witkoff met with Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to Putin and the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, in Miami alongside Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Reuters reported.
>In a phone call between Ushakov and Dmitriev, also leaked to Bloomberg, the Putin advisers agreed to draft their own version of a peace plan and pass it to Witkoff, whom they believed would keep it “as close to [Russia’s version] as possible.”
>“I think we’ll just make this paper from our position, and I’ll informally pass it along, making it clear that it’s all informal,” Dmitriev said. “And let them do like their own. But, I don’t think they’ll take exactly our version, but at least it’ll be as close to it as possible.”
>The initial draft of what is now believed to be Trump’s 28-point peace plan—presided over by Witkoff—was slammed by bipartisan lawmakers over the weekend as a complete cave-in to Putin in recent days. It involved Ukraine handing over territory to Russia, ending its hopes of joining NATO, and inviting Russia to rejoin the G8—and has even been accused of being written in Moscow before being presented as a U.S.-led proposal.
>Secretary of State Marco Rubio has since revised a new 19-point plan that Ukraine has tentatively agreed to, CNN reported.
>As of Tuesday afternoon, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, a Yale Law School buddy of JD Vance’s, has taken center stage as the man delivering the latest Ukraine peace proposal to the Russians.
>The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.
Just another day in Trump world. Not even surprising anymore.
Pretty sure Russia has that figured out by now. $$$ and flattery. And they are used fanning an out-of-control ego.
Im pretty sure Putin already knows how to get Trump to do whatever he wants
>Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere,” Witkoff said.
“You know I have the deepest respect for President Putin,” Witkoff said at one point. When he mentioned Zelensky’s forthcoming visit to the White House, he said he’d be meeting the Ukrainian president only “because they want me there.”
Witkoff job qualification: real estate developer
This is the caliber of person that Republican voters have, intentionally and repeatedly, put in charge of America, deciding life and death issues for entire continents, flirting with our enemies and backstabbing our allies.
If they end up destroying the world, don’t blame Trump. Blame the morally bankrupt, politically illiterate racist down the street who voted for this in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
More offended that they think this is actual news.
It’s been the play since his first term. Witkoff saying water is wet.
Shouldn’t Witkoff be getting notes on how to talk to Donald from Vlad? This seems backwards.
Smart. Why waste time learning how to jerk off king baby when they should be dealing with substantive issues? Just let the aide show the way.
This is why I don’t think Trump is *knowingly* a Russian asset – literally anyone can make Trump do anything by flattering him for ten minutes and letting him think their ideas are his.
I mean it was less than a week ago Trump was fawning at Mamdani while telling him he’d do great and openly agreeing he’s a fascist.
If someone ever accidentally leaves Trump alone in a room of leftists for an afternoon, we’ll have free healthcare, affordable housing, gun regulation, UBI and Greta Thunberg’s birthday as a federal holiday before we hit Valentine’s day.
It’s actually worse. It’s been well-known since Trump’s first term that flattering him will get you what you want. There was a leaked memo from Beijing to their trade delegation in the first term that said exactly this. And certainly by this time, every country on earth has a file on Trump.
I think this is worse because it’s clear collusion to advance Russian interests.
The Russians on the other end were like:
“Yeah we’ve known him like, way longer than you, comrade.”
It’s traitors. All the way down.
Steve Witkoff is a traitor. More than a few traitors serve in this administration.
“During the five-minute call, Witkoff told Putin’s henchman that the Russian president should personally phone Trump, 79, ahead of his planned meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—where Zelensky hoped, but ultimately failed, to secure long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles—to congratulate him on the Gaza ceasefire.”
So, because Putin called him and gave him a pat on the back, Ukraine doesn’t get Tomahawk missiles… what a wonderful way to run foreign policy.
Something something Koch brothers something something Russian oil.
>Leaked Call Shows ~~Top Trump Aide~~ **Traitor** Teaching Russia How to ~~Suck Up to Trump~~ **Compromise the Oval Office**
Seeing Putin pinch his nose when being in the same car as Trump is burned into my mind. Hahaha
Why Steve Witkoff? Koch Industries is the answer. They have 10 Billion invested in the Russian oil industry, and sanctions have completely cut them off from this massive investment.
Steve Witkoff’s connection to Koch Industries is that Witkoff’s real estate project, The Drew Las Vegas, was sold to Koch Industries in 2021 after Witkoff defaulted on his loans. Koch Real Estate Investments bought the property from Witkoff and partnered with Fontainebleau Development to complete the project, which is now known as the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Project acquisition: Witkoff purchased the unfinished casino from Carl Icahn in 2017 for $600 million.
Construction halts: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project stopped in March 2020, and Witkoff’s financing dried up.
Loan default: Witkoff defaulted on his loans, leading to a buyout opportunity for Koch Industries.
Koch Industries’ involvement: Koch Real Estate Investments purchased the property’s mortgages and took over the project.
Project continuation: Koch partnered with the original developer, Fontainebleau Development, to finish the project, which reopened as the Fontainebleau Las Vegas in December 2023.
This proves that Witkoff is, literally, a Russian agent.
Can we get some law enforcement going on here please? This man is a traitor to the United States.
This administration is just a permanent facepalm
I thought it was trump that does the sucking
It’s not hard. You literally just suck up to him, make him feel like a King, and he’ll hand you everything that you want. He’s a shallow, narcissistic moron.
How is this not treason?
The collusion never ended.
“wE’rE sO aLpHa!!!*
How the hell is teaching a foreign power how to manipulate the president *not* treason?
Who the fuck is Steve Witkoff? edit: he literally has a russian translation of his name on his english wikipedia page
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