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American businessman and diplomat (born 1957)
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin for nearly five hours on Dec. 2 as part of U.S. efforts to press a peace plan for Ukraine and then briefed President...
and have been publicly linked to efforts that : reporting shows they met with top Russian officials including , were involved in shaping and pitching peace proposals, and that journalists and analysts...
Available reporting shows the Trump administration has publicly claimed to have brokered multiple international agreements in 2025 — notably a U.S.-backed 28‑point Ukraine peace framework that Ukraine...
Reporting and public records describe a mix of long-standing business flirtations, episodic contacts and political ties between Donald Trump, members of his circle, and Russian-linked actors — but the...
Available reporting shows multiple incidents in 2025 in which sensitive material from the Trump administration was published or leaked — including a purported “secret” National Security Strategy excer...
’s reception with global CEOs in January 2026 was a high-profile, tightly watched sidelines event in which he delivered brief remarks to business leaders that reinforced his “America First” economic p...
and said it reviewed audio of two intercepted October phone calls: an October 14 exchange between and foreign‑policy aide Yuri Ushakov in which Witkoff coaches Ushakov on how to frame a peace pitch to...
Jared Kushner has played a in shaping the Trump administration’s post-2024 Israel peace efforts, participating in negotiations, drafting proposals, and linking U.S. envoys with Israeli officials while...
’s newly launched is an international body he presented as a vehicle to oversee and a platform to advance broader , with its founding charter signed and linked to . The initiative has attracted a mix ...
The short answer is: no — not imminently. The Trump administration has publicly pushed for “immediate negotiations” and a “framework” to gain access or control over , but that push has run up against ...
There is intense media and political scrutiny of ’s and ’s private diplomacy with , but the reporting provided does not identify any formal ethics or oversight investigations — congressional, , , or I...
did not arrive alone in ; he traveled to the accompanied by an unprecedented delegation and senior aides, and his arrival was accompanied by and logistical complications tied to presidential transport...
President Donald Trump has publicly named himself chair of a newly created “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s transitional governance and reconstruction and has appointed several close confidants and ...
No U.S. federal law‑enforcement or congressional investigations into Steve Witkoff or Jared Kushner over ties to Russia are reported in the material provided; the coverage documents meetings with Vlad...
Jared Kushner, though holding no official White House title during these talks, traveled to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and participated in negotiations alongside the Trump administration’s special envoy S...
Reporting says Jared Kushner was part of a small Trump administration team that helped draft and promote a 28‑point “peace plan” on Russia‑Ukraine that, in its U.S. form, would recognize Crimea (and p...
Donald Trump’s business ties to foreign countries are alleged to have intersected with his foreign policy decisions through investments, gifts, and the presence of foreign partners in his orbit, raisi...
Accusations that engages in grifting — using political power to enrich himself and his family — rest on a mix of documented legal findings, investigative reporting about , and watchdog analyses showin...
The relationship between and since Trump’s 2024 reelection has been defined by active diplomacy aimed at ending the , a sequence of high-level calls and meetings, and sharp domestic and international ...
has repeatedly met with and n officials as ’s special envoy on , and some reporting and a leaked transcript have prompted allegations he has sided with Russian positions; however, public evidence in t...