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. 
In total, they ran 6 anonymous quotes attacking him, yet refused quotes from Sec. Rubio and the lead negotiator of the Abraham Accords, Jared Kushner.
They also purposely cut down a quote from the UK's National Security Adviser bc it decimated the central thesis of their story.
They also purposely cut down a quote from the UK's National Security Adviser bc it decimated the central thesis of their story.
Here is what they ran from the UK National Security Adviser: "Witkoff has been able to open doors that no one else could” and “is exactly [the] sort of person” who gets results in diplomacy by concentrating “on building trust between key leaders … and moving quietly to cut a deal.”
Here is the full quote: I have been working on peace negotiations for the last thirty years and there is a lot of snobbery in diplomacy – that peace can only be made in grand chandeliered rooms, with a delegation of tens of officials and decades of diplomatic experience. But in my experience the people who are actually successful at making peace operate on their own and concentrate on building trust between key leaders on either side and moving quietly to cut a deal. Steve Witkoff is exactly that sort of person. Steve brings experience from making deals in a completely different field, together with charm and optimism, unburdened by the tens of reasons why an initiative cannot work, and a steely focus on getting to a lasting agreement. In the course of this year Steve has been able to open doors that no one else could and make peace possible in a series of different conflicts which would otherwise have remained insoluble.”
Can you see why they refused to run the entire thing? It made them look silly for running this story in the first place and so their solution was to disappear most of it.
Here is the full quote: I have been working on peace negotiations for the last thirty years and there is a lot of snobbery in diplomacy – that peace can only be made in grand chandeliered rooms, with a delegation of tens of officials and decades of diplomatic experience. But in my experience the people who are actually successful at making peace operate on their own and concentrate on building trust between key leaders on either side and moving quietly to cut a deal. Steve Witkoff is exactly that sort of person. Steve brings experience from making deals in a completely different field, together with charm and optimism, unburdened by the tens of reasons why an initiative cannot work, and a steely focus on getting to a lasting agreement. In the course of this year Steve has been able to open doors that no one else could and make peace possible in a series of different conflicts which would otherwise have remained insoluble.”
Can you see why they refused to run the entire thing? It made them look silly for running this story in the first place and so their solution was to disappear most of it.
This is a classic case of a foreign owned outlet doing the bidding of foreign diplomats - Pre-writing a story facts be damned - And then refusing to change their story when the facts become inconvenient to their pre-determined framing. It's not journalism. It's pure advocacy.
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