President Donald Trump thinks his special envoy coaching a henchman of Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a “standard” practice.
Trump brushed off a Bloomberg bombshell detailing Steve Witkoff’s chummy five-minute phone call with Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, in October. The American official taught the Russians how to get into Trump’s good graces before they uncork the touchy topic of a Russia-Ukraine peace plan
“That’s a standard thing, you know, because he’s got to sell this to Ukraine, he’s got to sell Ukraine to Russia,” Trump, 79, told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. “That’s what a dealmaker does. You got to say, ‘Look, they want this. You’ve got to convince him of this.’ You know, that’s a very standard form of negotiation.”
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