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Transcript of Steve Witkoff–Yuri Ushakov phone conversation:
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This is the transcript. Steve Witkoff
(SW) and Yuri Ushakov (YU) Putin's foreign policy adviser. Witkoff is giving inside information on how to manipulate a U.S. President to our greatest adversary.
[phone rings]
Steve Witkoff: Hi Yuri.
Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you?
SW: Good Yuri. How you doing?
YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend.
SW: Thank you.
YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.
SW: Thank you Yuri and thanks for your support. I know your country supported it and I thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d3ilnvep2md2sj3j7imyqqmq/bafkreieclj7xll7yj3njmd7t5ikstzw4wwgmiolude3csgjmroanh45mvm@jpeg)
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YU: Yes, yes, yes. Yes. You know that's why we suspend the organization of first Russian-Arabic summit.
SW: Yes.
YU: Yeah, because we think that you are making the real job there in the region.
SW: Well listen. I am going to tell you something. I think, I think if we can get the Russia-Ukraine thing solved, everybody'll be jumping for joy.
YU: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you need to solve only one problem. [laughs]
SW: What?
YU: Russian-Ukrainian war.
SW: I know! How do we get that solved?
YU: My friend, I just want your advice.
Do you think that it will be useful if our bosses will talk on the phone?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d3ilnvep2md2sj3j7imyqqmq/bafkreidoxm5qbpdtdpjzvxw7d4lcqlzkrhz4mxu6sjofiuohsp2ql2okou@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Transcript of Steve Witkoff–Yuri Ushakov phone conversation:
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff has got to go.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff has got to go.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff has got to go.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff has got to go.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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So this is Steven Witkoff coaching Putin‘s advisor Ushakov about how to please Trump
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So this is Steven Witkoff coaching Putin‘s advisor Ushakov about how to please Trump
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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Ook de BBC schrijft over zijn eigen censuur en het verwijderen van deze beschrijving van Trump uit de lezing van Rutger Bregman: the most openly corrupt president in American history. Maar ook in dit nieuwsbericht durft de BBC deze passage niet op te schrijven. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Historian Rutger Bregman criticises BBC for removing Donald Trump line from Radio 4's Reith Lecture
Rutger Bregman says he is "genuinely dismayed" after a line about the US president was edited out.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ook de BBC schrijft over zijn eigen censuur en het verwijderen van deze beschrijving van Trump uit de lezing van Rutger Bregman: the most openly corrupt president in American history. Maar ook in dit nieuwsbericht durft de BBC deze passage niet op te schrijven. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Well, it looks like some smart leaks from European intelligence services?
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Well, it looks like some smart leaks from European intelligence services?
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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Note that the leak about Witkoff's telephone heart to heart with Ushakov has just dropped at the same time as Dan Driscoll arrived in Abu Dhabi for separate meetings with Russian military officials and Kyrylo Budanov
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Note that the leak about Witkoff's telephone heart to heart with Ushakov has just dropped at the same time as Dan Driscoll arrived in Abu Dhabi for separate meetings with Russian military officials and Kyrylo Budanov
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People don't even hide the corruption and cronyism any more.
Cristiano Ronaldo has magically had his ban reduced so he can start the World Cup. There is no precedent...but then he met the President. How depressing...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Column:
inews.co.uk/sport/footba...
Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup reprieve stinks
Portugal star’s magic non-ban is depressingly inevitable
inews.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
People don't even hide the corruption and cronyism any more.
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At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
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The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
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So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So either Trump spoke to Bolsonaro about plotting to escape to the US right before the latter got caught trying to saw off his ankle monitor, or Trump imagined a conversation he didn’t have. Both scenarios are incredibly dark
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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: USA is very active and Europe is very active, as are our other partners. Everyone has the same agenda, and only in Moscow does war against Ukraine remain their first priority.
Strikes like today confirm this. It is extremely important for all of us not to forget the real situation.
Strikes like today confirm this. It is extremely important for all of us not to forget the real situation.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: USA is very active and Europe is very active, as are our other partners. Everyone has the same agenda, and only in Moscow does war against Ukraine remain their first priority.
Strikes like today confirm this. It is extremely important for all of us not to forget the real situation.
Strikes like today confirm this. It is extremely important for all of us not to forget the real situation.
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An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
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Blij met de ruime steun voor mijn wetsvoorstel! Belangrijke stap voor het versterken van de democratische rechtsstaat.
Kamermeerderheid wil invloed minister op OM schrappen
Kamermeerderheid wil invloed minister op OM schrappen
De minister van Justitie heeft nu nog de bevoegdheid om het OM te vertellen of iemand moet worden vervolgd.
nos.nl
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Blij met de ruime steun voor mijn wetsvoorstel! Belangrijke stap voor het versterken van de democratische rechtsstaat.
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Nederland is het zoveelste land waar Russen de verkiezingen proberen te beinvloeden. De Europese Commissie moet nu echt aan de slag om de polariserende algoritmes gebaseerd op clicks en interactie die dit aanmoedigen te verbieden.
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onder...
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onder...
Trollenlegers uit buitenland versterkten politieke en opruiende berichten rond verkiezingen
Honderden nepaccounts op sociale media hebben rond de Nederlandse Tweede Kamerverkiezingen vanuit Nigeria, Ghana en andere landen het debat beïnvloed door politiek getinte berichten en accounts te ver...
www.rtl.nl
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Nederland is het zoveelste land waar Russen de verkiezingen proberen te beinvloeden. De Europese Commissie moet nu echt aan de slag om de polariserende algoritmes gebaseerd op clicks en interactie die dit aanmoedigen te verbieden.
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onder...
www.rtl.nl/nieuws/onder...
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The interviews themselves are authoritarian intimidation
Abuse of power extending beyond Senator Kelly
"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."
DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"
Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
"FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic U.S. lawmakers."
DOJ official "said the interviews were to determine 'if there's any wrongdoing and then go from there.'"
Note: For video accurately stating military law
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The interviews themselves are authoritarian intimidation
This is quite shocking... Trump threats work and the media starts censoring themselves....
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is quite shocking... Trump threats work and the media starts censoring themselves....
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NEW: Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson, the company's ad data reveals. www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...
Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson
The parent company of Facebook is helping a right-wing influencer promote conspiracy theories about 9/11.
www.theredoubt.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW: Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson, the company's ad data reveals. www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...
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I know this isn’t the main point but why spell it wrong in the most annoying way possible??
1. EXCLUSIVE
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I know this isn’t the main point but why spell it wrong in the most annoying way possible??
I don't think people fully understand what a disaster some kind of cease-fire and/or peacedeal along current frontlines would be for Putin. The occupied parts of Ukraine will become poor. While the part of Ukraine that is free will, with EU assistance ,be economically succesful and prosperous.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I don't think people fully understand what a disaster some kind of cease-fire and/or peacedeal along current frontlines would be for Putin. The occupied parts of Ukraine will become poor. While the part of Ukraine that is free will, with EU assistance ,be economically succesful and prosperous.
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ICYMI: DOJ is fighting an effort to force Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of USAID while he was an adviser to Trump, arguing he should be shielded as a former high-level executive branch official
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Trump Administration Fights Bid to Get Musk to Testify on DOGE
The Trump administration is fighting efforts by government workers and contractors to force billionaire Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of…
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
ICYMI: DOJ is fighting an effort to force Elon Musk to testify in a lawsuit that accuses him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of USAID while he was an adviser to Trump, arguing he should be shielded as a former high-level executive branch official
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The FBI recorded Tom Homan allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover operation.
Three Democratic senators haven’t given up on getting answers — and I have an exclusive first look at their latest efforts. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Three Democratic senators haven’t given up on getting answers — and I have an exclusive first look at their latest efforts. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Democratic senators file FOIA request, demand answers about Tom Homan controversy Democratic senators file FOIA request demanding answers about the Tom Homan controversy
The FBI recorded Homan allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover operation. Three senators are still seeking information about the case.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The FBI recorded Tom Homan allegedly accepting $50,000 in cash as part of an undercover operation.
Three Democratic senators haven’t given up on getting answers — and I have an exclusive first look at their latest efforts. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Three Democratic senators haven’t given up on getting answers — and I have an exclusive first look at their latest efforts. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...