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| Steve Witkoff in Russia |
With the Signalgate scandal putting the Trump administration's incompetence and arrogance on full display, one could sense that a connection to Russia was bound to surface in this sleazy story -- and that has, in fact, happened.
One of the 18 Trumpies involved in the discussion of war plans in Yemen actually was in Russia as Signalgate was unfolding. Sarah Jones, of The Daily at politicususa.com, explains under the headline "A Member of the Trump Admin Signal Chat Was in Russia; Flight data shows that a member of the Trump administration's Signal chat was added to the chat while in Russia after hyping the "friendship" between Trump and Putin." Jones writes:
Hours after the Trump administration defended the indefensible use of Signal for war plans, a CBS report revealed, “As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data shows a member of the group chat was in Russia.”
Yes, this is yet another Russia narrative swirling around Donald Trump’s presidency, and at this point should be raising serious questions about his loyalties.
“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,” CBS reported.
Witkoff had 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.”
Just yesterday, CNN talked with people in Moscow asking their thoughts about Trump’s negotiator — that would be none other than the same Steve Witkoff — saying Putin thinks of Trump as a ‘friend’.
Witkoff claimed that the last time he met Putin, "he saw a special relationship between the Russian leader and President Trump developing.”
Their report began with Witkoff telling Tucker Carlson, “It got personal. The president, President Putin, had commissioned a beautiful portrait of President Trump from a 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 Putin 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 be become the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him, and he was praying for his friend.”
Conveniently, and just how a good producer would organize the news if they were trying to distract from an epic f*ck up on par with unwittingly sharing war plans with a random journalist on Signal while someone in that chat was in Moscow, the White House announced hours ago that Russia and Ukraine agreed to stop using force in the Black Sea.
Russia, Russia, Russia. Russia is the theme and the story of Donald Trump’s presidencies.
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