Vance defends Witkoff and the US-Russia peace process.
Ever since the historic US-Russia summit in Alaska between Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin, the MSM has doubled down in their relentless efforts to sabotage the peace process – a working relationship between the nuclear superpowers is everything that Euro-Globalists and Neocons fear for the future.
One of the ways that the western press tries to destroy prospects for peace in Ukraine and renewed US-Russia ties is by attacking the Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
The reason is simple: he is very effective, so he must be painted as a Putin stooge or something to this effect.
And that’ s what Politico’s Felicia Schwartz did yesterday:
Politico’s @felschwartz – Just a ran a fictional smear job on Steve Witkoff that was strictly sourced to ANONYMOUS deep staters & foreign diplomats. They found room to run countless blind quotes attacking him, but couldn’t find space to include Secretary Rubio defending him. pic.twitter.com/utFwOb9oVa
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) August 29, 2025
Vice President JD Vance came out swinging after that, with a long, scathing post that merits publication in its entirety:
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“This story from Politico is journalistic malpractice. But it’s more than that: it’s a foreign influence operation meant to hurt the administration and one of our most effective members.
Notice how all of the people attacking Steve are on background? That means it’s two or three deep staters who are angry that Witkoff has succeeded where they’ve failed.
You know what this ‘reporter’ left out to make room for anonymous quotes?
The full quote from the sitting vice president, on the record.
A quote from the secretary of the state, on the record.
A quote from Jared Kushner, on the record.
The full quote from the UK’s Jonathan Powell, one of the most respected national security people in the Western World, who defended Steve vigorously from these malicious smears.
The person who wrote this garbage is @felschwartz
Aside from the failure to include on the record information directly contradicting her reporting, I wonder if she ever asked herself why these anonymous sources came to her at this moment with this particular story. They have an agenda to blow up the president’s efforts to make peace, and they saw her as a useful vessel to launder garbage into the conversation, truth be damned.
There are two possible explanations: Felicia is just not very smart, and allowed herself to be used by deep state con men. Or she’s in on it, and used her position to willingly participate in a literal foreign influence operation. Either way, it’s disgraceful.
To set the record straight: Steve Witkoff is an invaluable member of our team. He did not mislead anyone on what the Russians told him and what the Russians conceded. (Trust me, I’ve seen the intel.) The fruits of his negotiations are that we have narrowed the list of open issues in the Russia-Ukraine war to a set of clearly defined issues–specifically, security guarantees and territorial concessions.
Maybe we make peace, and maybe we don’t. If we do, it will be because Steve Witkoff and the President of the United States worked their tails off, in the face of outright lies from the mainstream press.”
Russian CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, and Special Envoy of the President of Russia for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev also joined the chorus to defend Witkoff and bash the deep state Globalists that fear the peace process.
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