Talking about his two meetings with Putin on Feb. 11 and March 13, Witkoff said “I liked him. I think he was honest with me.”
Carlson said that assessment was shared by “all the presidents in the world” including Joe Biden: “They may not agree with what Russia is doing, but they say: ‘You know, Putin is an open person,’” Carlson said.
In addition to describing Putin as “not a bad person,” Witkoff said: “It’s a complicated situation, this war, and all the components that led to it. You know, it’s never just one person who’s right.”
Witkoff added that after the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump, Putin went to church and prayed for him: “… not because he could be the president of the United States, but because they had a friendship, and he prayed for his friend.” He added telling Trump of this, “He [Trump] was clearly touched.”
“… The Russians have what they want: They got back these five regions. They have Crimea. They got what they wanted. So what else do they want?” He then went on to say that the main ongoing problem to resolving the war is the issue of [the occupied] territories.
In another echo of the Kremlin propaganda line Witkoff said that the “Russian speaking residents” of these regions [Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson] had overwhelmingly indicated they wanted to be part of the Russian Federation in referendums – a process that most of the world thinks were not only illegal but were held under occupation, subject to coercion (sometimes at gunpoint) and falsification in the absence of independent observers.
He then mentioned, what he called “the elephant in the room” - Ukrainian constitutional issues that prevented the ceding of territories despite being under de facto Russian control and then asked the question: “If the world recognizes these [five regions] as Russian territories, will this end [the war] and will Zelensky survive politically if he recognizes this?”
‘He’s Not a Bad Person’ – Steve Witkoff’s Fulsome Assessment of Meeting Putin
America is done for unless Americans actually fight back and I have my doubts they will, it's a shame that Europe is so useless because America has been taken over by Russia and Republicans want to model their country after Russia, this attempt to rehabilitate Russia to the American public is sickening, they want the American public to not only accept Russia but like them too, it's disgusting.
Putin is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, an army of rapists and mass murderers, an attempt of genocide, multiple wars, political assassinations, etc, and America says they like him, they say he isn't a bad guy, they say some bullshit about him praying for Trump because he got his ear clipped and that means he's a friend of America, they say he's honest, they say he has genuine reasons for invading Ukraine, they spread Russian propaganda.
Fuck MAGA. Fuck Trump. Fuck Witkoff. Fuck Rubio. America Oblast.
Witkoff's repeating of Kremlin lies about "russian-speakers" wanting to "join Russia" is truly chilling. This is nothing less than carte blanche for Putin's genocidal imperialism. Hearing Americans talk like this should be an electric shock for Europe, not a wakeup call.
— Gabrielius Landsbergis (@glandsbergis.bsky.social) 22 March 2025 at 09:08
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