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Steve Witkoff, for instance, a longtime Trump associate who was appointed as the United States special envoy to the Middle East, has been cashing in on his proximity to Trump to secure private deals, this person says. Witkoff's son, Zach Witkoff, is the cofounder of World Liberty Financial, the crypto banking platform that launched Trump's memecoin. Early in March, Steve Witkoff sent cryptocurrency advocates to the Middle East to promote World Liberty Financial's latest stablecoin project, The Wall Street Journal reported. "Steve Witkoff is calling every sovereign government and saying, 'You need to support this coin if you want to be in good standing with Trump,'" the person says. Witkoff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

That doesn't seem like a great office to have a holder who is soliciting bribes from foreign countries to affect national policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff

In November 2024, then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would appoint Witkoff to be the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East...In addition to his Middle East portfolio, he also became Trump's personal de facto envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[5]

“How did a Trump-hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your Signal chat?” Laura Ingraham asked.

“You know, Laura, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” Waltz replied. “But of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax, gone to all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.”

Honestly, I really hope that the next administration, regardless of which party it is, dispenses with the constant and unending stream of bullshit. I really don't want this sort of thing to become established as the new normal.

It's not even over a significant issue here; it seems like an insane thing to use credibility on. Like, Waltz could say "I clicked on the wrong person", and I don't think that anyone is going to wig out about it. The fact that they were on Signal in the first place, not to mention using poor operational security while on it is the much more concerning issue, but he's not denying that.

remember when social media CEOs weren’t like… this?

I think that that's just Elon.

I don't follow.

I think that it might be a larger factor if levels were specifically designed around exploiting its strengths.

I remember that Fallout 4, which introduced godrays, had a mission, Call To Arms, that had the main character walking down a series of walkways made of gratings that really made the effect very noticeable.

I would assume that they are not government-funded.

They can just interleave requests to different hosts. Honestly, someone spidering the whole Web probably should be doing that regardless.

Michael Waltz

👊🇺🇸🔥

Steve Witkoff

🙏🏼🙏🏼💪🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸

long sigh

Probably sell it. I believe that hedge mazes are expensive to maintain, and I wouldn't get much good out of a hedge maze.

The pardon only applies to criminal law, not civil. If someone is suing someone else, it's civil law at play.

I think that they're the ones who are supposed to keep records, not random other people like The Atlantic or Russian intelligence.

"Motor voter"? Like, drive-through balloting?