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Compared on: what Steve Witkoff has said on the record.
THE CLAIM · OCT 22, 2026
“U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has been criticized for calling Russian President Putin a "humanitarian”
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THE RECORD · OCT 22, 2026
The post's own video plays these words at 0:00: “President Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, in thanking the Russian president for releasing American Stephen Hubbard, used a word now being criticized widely. Hubbard spent more than four years in Russian custody, was designated wrongfully detained by the U.S., and arrived back on American”
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