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   From: notgenx32@yahoo.com   
      
   President Trump is defending his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, over the way he   
   has conducted negotiations during the latest American push to end the war in   
   Ukraine and will send him back to Russia to meet again with President Vladimir   
   V. Putin.   
      
   Mr. Trump’s comments came Tuesday evening after Bloomberg published what it   
   said   
   was a transcript of a phone conversation on Oct. 14 between Mr. Witkoff and   
   Yuri   
   Ushakov, a top foreign policy aide to Mr. Putin. In the reported conversation,   
   Mr. Witkoff appeared to offer the Russian official advice on how the Kremlin   
   could win backing from Mr. Trump for its preferred terms to end the conflict.   
      
   Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that Mr. Witkoff had been meeting   
   with Russian and Ukrainian officials, and he cast the conversation as part of   
   negotiations to end the conflict. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and then   
   launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago.   
      
   “I haven’t heard it, but it’s a standard thing,” Mr. Trump said of the   
   conversation. “That’s what a deal maker does.”   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/politics/trump-ukraine-pea   
   e-deal-witkoff.html?smid=url-share   
      
   No, a "deal maker" does not corruptly coach people on how to flatter Trump.   
      
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