""What good was a handful of missiles going to accomplish?""
""I'm in the deal settlement business. That's why I'm here. We keep on knocking at the door and coming up with ideas.""
""That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gotta sell Ukraine to Russia. "That's what a dealmaker does [...] I haven't heard it, but I heard it was standard negotiation. And I would imagine he's saying the same thing to Ukraine, because each party has to give and take.""
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the US President in October seeking Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike Russian oil refineries. Steve Witkoff is accused of advising Kyiv to request a decade-long US tariff exemption instead of supplying long-range missiles, claiming such relief "would supercharge their economy." Witkoff described himself as being in the deal-settlement business and said he kept proposing ideas. Critics allege he coached Russian contacts on how to sell a Ukraine deal to the US President. The US President defended Witkoff as acting like a dealmaker during negotiations.
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