Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Undermining U.S. Foreign Policy

I am not a foreign policy expert, but I have learned to recognize when someone is clearly out of his depth in that area. This is clearly the case of Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and golfing buddy of President Donald Trump’s from his old stomping grounds in Queens, N.Y.

Witkoff, nominally the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, has become Trump’s all-purpose emissary for almost all of today’s key foreign policy issues. One day he is meeting with Vladimir Putin to settle the Ukraine conflict, the next he is negotiating with Hamas to urge the group toward a cease-fire with Israel, and, a few days later, he is interacting with the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program. Witkoff’s travel schedule is often busier than that of a secretary of state or CIA director.

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I am not a foreign policy expert, but I have learned to recognize when someone is clearly out of his depth in that area. This is clearly the case of Steve Witkoff, a real estate investor and golfing buddy of President Donald Trump’s from his old stomping grounds in Queens, N.Y.

Witkoff, nominally the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, has become Trump’s all-purpose emissary for almost all of today’s key foreign policy issues. One day he is meeting with Vladimir Putin to settle the Ukraine conflict, the next he is negotiating with Hamas to urge the group toward a cease-fire with Israel, and, a few days later, he is interacting with the Iranians on their nuclear weapons program. Witkoff’s travel schedule is often busier than that of a secretary of state or CIA director.