Donald Trump probably shouldn’t have said what he did during a recent press interaction, but now it’s too late. People on the internet are now nearly convinced that Trump accidentally disclosed important secrets about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
While on Air Force One recently, Donald Trump was asked by a journalist to comment on the audio that has been circulating of Steve Witkoff “coaching” Russians on how to “appeal” to him. He stated that he hadn’t heard it, but he claimed that Witkoff’s behaviour in this context was “standard” because the aim was to “sell this to Ukraine,” adding that “he’s got to sell Ukraine to Russia.” He continued by highlighting that Witkoff was doing in this situation is how dealmakers operate to convince the parties they need to persuade to achieve desired outcomes. Trump referred to it as a “standard form of negotiation” and said that he imagined that Witkoff conveyed the same message to Ukraine because “each party has to give and take.”
