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Witkoff praises Putin as a humanitarian — to his shame and ours

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President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff praised Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” on Tuesday while representing the United States in talks with the Russian “president” in St. Petersburg.

Witkoff couldn’t be more wrong.

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