Trump’s Special Envoy Witkoff: I don’t regard Putin as bad guy

22 March 2025

Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, has given an interview to American propagandist Tucker Carlson, in which he shared his impressions of his second visit to Russia, noting that he does not consider Russian ruler Vladimir Putin a bad person.

Source: Witkoff in an interview with Tucker Carlson

Details: Witkoff said that during his second visit to the Kremlin, Putin had commissioned a portrait of Trump and “actually gave it to me and asked me to take it home to President Trump”. 

Quote: “He [Putin – ed.] told me a story, Tucker, about how when the president [Trump – ed.] was shot, he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed for the president not because he could become the president of the United States, but because he has a friendship with him and he was praying for his friend.”

Details: Witkoff stressed that he had recounted Putin’s story to Trump and handed over the painting. “He was clearly touched by it”, he said.

“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy. That is a complicated situation, that war, and all the ingredients that led up to it,” Witkoff noted.

Background: Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin, reported that Putin received Steve Witkoff on the evening of 13 March, through whom “additional signals” have been conveyed to Donald Trump.

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11 comments

  1. So, Witkoff is okay with putin to slaughter innocent people every day? It’s okay for his soldiers to commit atrocious war crimes? Rape, murder, torture, loot, and destroy?
    What an evil creature!
    Is the entire Trump administration made up of evil-minded people, like this Witkoff, without a lick of morals, a sense of righteousness, dignity, or even brains?
    I hope that this presidency is the worst this country has to offer, because I’d hate to think of a worse one, if that’s even possible.

  2. Putler praying for his friend Trump, is about as likely as putler placing flowers on the grave of Boris Nemtsov. Some people are either born stupid or they have had a lot of practice.

  3. HOW ON EARTH ANYONE WITH ONE WORKING BRAIN CELL CAN SAY THIS……………HE WILL SAY HITLER AND STALIN WERE GOOD PEOPLE TOO……………….

  4. Witkoff has no witts about him, puppet moron. In seriousness, im wondering if they throw this crap out there to desensitize, then when they actually invoke a less stupid idea it seems normal. Shifting the subconscience bias sort to speak…

    • Trump has put bimbos into his cabinet on purpose. Not because they are bimbos, since he can’t tell the difference between a bimbo and a scientist, but because they are willing to lick his anus.

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