Putin prayed for Trump after assassination attempt, Witkoff reveals

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Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin prayed for President Donald Trump after he was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last summer.

In an appearance on political commentator Tucker Carlson’s podcast The Tucker Carlson Show, Witkoff, Trump’s top envoy and a key negotiator in talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war, said his second meeting with Putin “got personal” and included a story of how the Russian president went to his local church and prayed for his “friend” Trump after his first assassination attempt.

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