Trump's Goons Are Robbing Ukraine In Front Of Us

Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff were weighing business profits against the future of an entire country.

The level of corruption pouring out of this presidency is almost impossible to keep up with. Every time you think you have seen the worst of it, a new scandal surfaces that makes the last one look small. And tonight, the new Steve Witkoff Russia scandal is one of the most alarming yet. This is not normal corruption. This is something far more dangerous. Our allies are reacting in real time and they are horrified.

Steve Witkoff is sitting in a meeting with Ukrainian negotiators right now. This is a Florida real estate guy with no diplomatic experience of any kind. No background in peace deals. No history in foreign policy. Trump simply knew him and slotted him into one of the most important diplomatic roles the United States has. He has now become the shadow secretary of state for Russia and Ukraine despite having no qualifications beyond the fact that he is loyal to Donald Trump.

Photos from the meeting shows him looking exhausted and nervous. That is because he has been exposed for coaching Russian officials on how to manipulate Trump into a peace deal that benefits the Kremlin. He was literally advising Putin’s team on how to handle Trump. Ukrainian officials inside today’s meeting thanked Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner by name. They skipped Witkoff entirely. They know exactly who he is and what he has been doing.

Then the Wall Street Journal detonated the next bomb. It turns out Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump have been working with Russian oligarchs to cut personal business deals tied directly to the shape of the Ukraine peace plan. If Ukraine gives Russia more land, Trump’s circle gets access to Russian gas, pipelines, and sanctioned projects. That is not diplomacy. That is corruption that sells out Ukraine, sells out Europe, and sells out the United States for personal gain.

This reporting was so damning that one of our European allies handed the evidence to US lawmakers. They did it because they no longer trust Trump’s administration to act honestly. Allies have already started withholding intelligence after Pete Hexath used US intel to carry out illegal strikes. Now they are stepping in again because they are watching Trump’s team negotiate away Ukrainian sovereignty for profit.

Republican Representative Don Bacon summarized it perfectly. He said these deals would force Ukraine to give Russia more land and become a vassal state. Greed is literally being placed above democracy. He referenced Churchill and Reagan turning in their graves. And he is not wrong.

Look at the examples. Gentry Beach, a longtime friend of Donald Trump Jr, was negotiating for a massive stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if sanctions were lifted. Another donor paid six hundred thousand dollars to a lobbyist connected to Trump’s family to pursue a license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. These are not policy decisions. These are personal payouts hidden inside a geopolitical crisis.

Jared Kushner is also involved. His investment fund took billions from authoritarian governments in the Middle East, and now he is playing a central role in shaping the Ukraine deal. Even Poland’s prime minister said it plainly. This is not about peace. This is about business.

The deal Witkoff has been pitching would trade Ukrainian land in exchange for business opportunities for Trump’s network. Russia would get territory. Trump’s allies would get access to major Russian projects. It is a direct swap. And while they promise shared prosperity, every Western intelligence expert has been warning for years that Putin will break any agreement the moment it is convenient. Trump and Witkoff are too inexperienced and too self interested to understand the basic psychology of a regime built on manipulation.

It gets even worse. Witkoff requested help from the Treasury Department to let a sanctioned Russian oligarch into the United States for meetings at the White House. This oligarch runs the Russian sovereign wealth fund which American officials describe as a personal slush fund for Putin. Trump’s team cleared him anyway because they wanted to talk business.

He arrived with a list of multi billion dollar projects that Russia wanted to pursue with the United States. He met with Rubio. He met with Witkoff. He met with senior administration officials. And through those meetings, Russia quietly engineered an entire peace plan that they leaked to the US media. Once it was out in the open, Trump and his team said they agreed. European leaders were stunned. They saw their own security interests carved up in a document that had nothing to do with peace and everything to do with private profit.

This is corruption on a scale that directly endangers the United States and its allies. And the world is watching. Our allies are sharing intelligence behind Trump’s back because they believe he is compromised. Our national security is taking hits that will not be easy to repair. And all of it is being driven by a small circle of people who see global conflict as a personal business opportunity.

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