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.

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    Lemmy would benefit greatly from flairs. Anything that is posted by the daily beast would have a “lopsided obviously biased to the point of not being worth posted where it matters” tag

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      I’m less convinced honestly. This tells me that Trump is nothing but a very controllable puppet, who is surrounded by russian assets. He’ll agree with any charismatic or powerful person he meets, because he can’t think for himself. So the russian assets around him will prepare him in advance to make sure he’s full of russian propaganda before he has to make any decision.

      Once in a while they fail to get to him, the few times he does something against russian interests

      I’m convinced he’s nothing but a puppet at this point because of mental decline. He wasn’t always though, and it doesn’t excuse him. He has always been absolute garbage and waste of oxygen.

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      I totally believe there’s something there. Too many red flags - like not bringing interpreters on talks w/ putin. and keeping nuclear secrets in the guest bathroom at mar a lago.

      I think people will look back and really be disappointed in this generation for doing nothing about this

      yeah, I mean… as much as we do today. like, you know this isn’t the first time foreign collusion has delivered a republican to the white house? nixon did it. LBJ literally called it treason.

      Then reagan did it 20 years later with iran. then sent them weapons for the f14s purchased by the Shah.

      we know these things are true, but some people either don’t care about history or care more about hurting brown people and taking women’s rights.

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    This is just confirming that Trump is just swayed by the last person he talked to. Stevey boy here just reminding the Russians to get on the line with Trump so he’s on their side before Zelensky meets Trump.