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“Steve Witkoff has faced a precipitous learning curve, though he seems largely unbothered by the long history of American diplomatic failure in the Middle East, in particular. Like Trump, he is very much the transactionalist, and sees Ayatollah Khamenei and Vladimir Putin, among others, not as cruelly Machiavellian authoritarians captured by deeply felt and deeply antagonistic ideologies, but as clever negotiators, like so many real-estate lawyers he once faced in business, looking for the best possible deal. He appeared to interpret Putin’s desire to meet with him not as a display of dominance but as a sign of the Russian leader’s sincere interest in peace.” In many ways, Steve Witkoff represents the most interesting (and shocking) story of the Trump administration. He’s a real estate guy with no international diplomacy experience and he’s in charge of negotiating the world’s most complex and intractable conflicts. The Atlantic (Gift Article): Trump’s Real Secretary of State. “How the president’s friend and golfing partner Steve Witkoff got one of the hardest jobs on the planet.”

+ And he regularly attends big time meetings without a team. Or even an interpreter: In meetings with Putin, Trump’s envoy relied on the Kremlin’s interpreter.