By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday picked Jewish real estate investor Steve Witkoff to serve as his special envoy to the Middle East, despite his having “no known experience with diplomacy or the Middle East.”
From The Jerusalem Post/Reuters, “Trump picks Jewish real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff for Mideast envoy”:
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had picked Jewish real estate investor and campaign donor Steve Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East.
As a pro-Israel donor and fundraiser for Trump’s presidential campaign, Trump said in a statement that Witkoff is a “tireless voice for peace.”
In an interview with The Bulwark in May, Witkoff explained that he secured “six-figure and seven-figure donations” for the Trump campaign from Jewish donors following Biden’s announcement he’d be pausing weapons shipments to Israel.
In July, Witkoff attended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech address to Congress, telling Fox News that it “was strong and it was epic to be in that room.”
“It felt spiritual,” he added.
Witkoff has no known experience with diplomacy or the Middle East.
I’m sure Ben Shapiro will be thrilled!
As I reported in April, Witkoff arranged a meeting between Trump and Ron DeSantis in a “quest for donors” and one day after the meeting took place Trump came out to demand pro-Palestine protests be shut down across the country.