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Swede

(40,466 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 12:09 PM 11 hrs ago

Trump sent his buddy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to negotiate with Iran. Again.

Two useless tits to negotiate what may be Trump's coup de grace, transforming him into a lame duck.
Interesting thread.

Wait. So Trump’s Iran deal is now being negotiated by his buddy Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate developer, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner?

Not a seasoned career diplomat or nuclear expert in sight.

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-06-20T13:04:59.872Z

Trump is desperately making a bad deal because of oil. At the G7, he admitted we’d “run out of reserves in about four weeks.”

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-06-20T13:04:59.873Z

Trump makes a desperate deal with Iran for oil while spending tax dollars to pay companies not to build wind farms and solar arrays. Waste, fraud, and abuse.

(@jjones2231.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T15:28:21.644Z
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Trump sent his buddy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to negotiate with Iran. Again. (Original Post) Swede 11 hrs ago OP
Iran sends experts with PHDs and years of experience and we send clowns. dem4decades 11 hrs ago #1
That we keep sending real estate developers to these negotiations displacedvermoter 11 hrs ago #2
Could be. Negotiations used to end in a truce, not a deal. Swede 11 hrs ago #4
So Trump is sending (Epstein files) Witkoff, a corrupt incompetent self-dealing billionaire agingdem 11 hrs ago #3

dem4decades

(14,624 posts)
1. Iran sends experts with PHDs and years of experience and we send clowns.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 12:11 PM
11 hrs ago

There's a reason we get a bad deal.

displacedvermoter

(5,209 posts)
2. That we keep sending real estate developers to these negotiations
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 12:28 PM
11 hrs ago

is kind of a tell, don't you think. These aren't diplomatic negotiations, they are business transactions...

agingdem

(9,036 posts)
3. So Trump is sending (Epstein files) Witkoff, a corrupt incompetent self-dealing billionaire
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 12:29 PM
11 hrs ago

and Jared, a corrupt incompetent self-dealing Saudi bribe recipient, to negotiate a deal with the Iranians..Deja vu all over again!

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