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BumRushDaShow

(164,233 posts)
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:31 PM Saturday

WSJ Bombshell: Trump Chiefs Met With Putin Honcho On Peace Plan To Access Billions Frozen In Europe

Source: MEDIAite

Nov 29th, 2025, 10:26 am


President Donald Trump’s top envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Putin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev to hammer out a peace deal that would unlock hundreds of billions in funds frozen in Europe, according to a bombshell Wall Street Journal report. Recently, Trump took flak over a 28-point peace plan that was rejected by many Republicans and others as a “Russian wish list.”

The president lashed out after the leaked plan was widely criticized, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s did confirm that “The peace proposal was authored by the U.S. It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations. It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.”

In remarks to reporters, Trump later distanced himself from the plan, saying “Well, that was just a map, all that was is a map. That was not a plan, it was a concept.” But according to the Wall Street Journal’s five-member reporting team — Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, and Joe Parkinson — another plan was being worked out in Miami by Trump’s business cronies/officials:

At his waterfront estate, billionaire developer-turned-special envoy Steve Witkoff was hosting Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund and Vladimir Putin’s handpicked negotiator, who had largely shaped the document they were revising on the screen. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, had arrived from his nearby home on an island known as the “Billionaire Bunker.”

Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic.


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/wsj-bombshell-trump-chiefs-met-with-putin-honcho-on-peace-plan-to-access-billions-frozen-in-europe/
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WSJ Bombshell: Trump Chiefs Met With Putin Honcho On Peace Plan To Access Billions Frozen In Europe (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Saturday OP
Holy hell. greatauntoftriplets Saturday #1
And that surprises you? UpInArms Saturday #2
Not particularly. greatauntoftriplets Saturday #3
Oh that's easy popsdenver Saturday #6
So, just like every other horrific crime being committed--including war crimes against civilians and Venezuela... hlthe2b Saturday #4
Nice to know the GOPigs in congress don't give a shit about protecting US interests mdbl Saturday #5
Not So Fast DallasNE Sunday #7
Putin's economy is crashing and he must get Ukraine and the sanctioned money. Irish_Dem Sunday #8
The Arctic? So this wasn't just about Ukraine, this was "let's be megabillionaires together!!!" muriel_volestrangler Sunday #9
"Wouldn't surprise me if Greenland was one of their targets." BumRushDaShow Sunday #10
trump is following putin's orders LetMyPeopleVote 14 hrs ago #11

UpInArms

(53,842 posts)
2. And that surprises you?
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:43 PM
Saturday

This pos TFG is the worst upright collection of cells that has ever manifested into what passes for a human form that has ever slithered crawled or propelled itself

popsdenver

(1,257 posts)
6. Oh that's easy
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:41 PM
Saturday

2025's Stephen Miller, along with Russell Vought, and of course Trump's constant master......PUTIN

hlthe2b

(112,365 posts)
4. So, just like every other horrific crime being committed--including war crimes against civilians and Venezuela...
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 07:58 PM
Saturday

among others... WHAT THE HELL IS TO BE DONE? Most of us have BP spikes around the clock in response to all this. WTF can we do? WTF is anyone else going to do?

mdbl

(7,944 posts)
5. Nice to know the GOPigs in congress don't give a shit about protecting US interests
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:23 PM
Saturday

That should be the fucking headline on every news channel, except for Fux, OAN and Noozmax of course.

DallasNE

(7,934 posts)
7. Not So Fast
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 01:00 AM
Sunday

“Well, that was just a map, all that was is a map. That was not a plan, it was a concept.”

If that was the case, there would have been no reason for pressure being put on Zelenskyy to sign the document no later than Thanksgiving Day.

Irish_Dem

(78,557 posts)
8. Putin's economy is crashing and he must get Ukraine and the sanctioned money.
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 05:23 AM
Sunday

Trump is handing it all over to him in exchange for dividing up the stolen resources and money.
Kushner is in on the deal as well.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,331 posts)
9. The Arctic? So this wasn't just about Ukraine, this was "let's be megabillionaires together!!!"
Sun Nov 30, 2025, 05:48 AM
Sunday

It's "fuck the rest of the world, we'll take this money and ruin pristine environments!" Wouldn't surprise me if Greenland was one of their targets.

And then they want to send missions to Mars. Because they're Musk fanbois.

If the world survives, these people will be on the list of "the idiots who took us to the brink, and should have been kept in school for decades until they learned to be adults".

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,535 posts)
11. trump is following putin's orders
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:40 AM
14 hrs ago

Russia is trying to cut a peace deal based on giving trump a share of these funds and other business deals

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