Sunday, March 23, 2025

Putin commissioned a ‘beautiful portrait’ of Trump, U.S. envoy says

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/22/putin-commissioned-beautiful-portrait-trump-us-envoy-says/

When Vladimir Putin heard Donald Trump had been shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania last year, the Russian president said he went to his local church, met with his priest and prayed, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Friday in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Putin, according to Witkoff’s conversation with the man, prayed not because Trump was a U.S. presidential candidate at the time, but because he “had a friendship with him, and he was praying for his friend.”

Witkoff said Putin shared the anecdote with him during Witkoff’s second visit to Russia in mid-March, which, he added, got “personal.” Witkoff said Putin gave him a “beautiful portrait” of Trump that Putin had commissioned by a “leading” Russian artist, and asked that Witkoff bring the painting back to the White House.

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