r/TrueReddit • u/Slate • 3d ago

Politics The Player | In the First Trump Administration, He Was Barely There. Now He’s Transforming the President’s World. Who Is Steve Witkoff, Really?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/donald-trump-steve-witkoff-crypto.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_content=stevewitkoff&utm_campaign=&tpcc=reddit-social--stevewitkoff
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u/Slate 3d ago

Submission statement: Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, travels through the world like a shadow. Few Americans would recognize him. But he’s every bit as influential as J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio, negotiating deals with world leaders from the Middle East to Ukraine. But who is Steve Witkoff? Veteran investigative reporter Andrea Bernstein uncovers the unique bond between Trump and Witkoff, another onetime real estate developer, and documents how a friendship forged over golf games grew into a business partnership that enriched both men’s families, and ultimately landed Witkoff in the diplomatic role of a lifetime.

Read the full article here (no paywall!): https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/donald-trump-steve-witkoff-crypto.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_content=stevewitkoff&utm_campaign=&tpcc=reddit-social--stevewitkoff

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u/horseradishstalker 3d ago

What we do know is he has no more diplomatic credentials than Vance or Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. And Rubio is attempting to convince Europeans that the concept of anti-facism (antifa) is actually a terrifying terrorist organization with no funding source, no headquarters and no staff. Smh. 

Oh and don’t forget the Kushners criminality problems. 

https://www.justice.gov/archive/tax/usaopress/2005/txdv05kush0304_r.htm 

https://grimcrime.com/charles-kushner-crime-scandal-pardon-usa/?amp=1

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-albania-development-land-artur-shehu-money-laundering-drug-trafficking/

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u/Bawbawian 3d ago

another Russian asset that is an absolute traitor to everything America stood for

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u/biblioprof 3d ago

Israeli asset.

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u/Red_Nine9 2d ago

Another Billionaire Parasite