NYT Bombshell: Steve Witkoff at Center of Shady Crypto Deal Enriching Trump Family

Isaac Schorr Sep 15th, 2025, 4:31 pm

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff , the businessman who has been given a sprawling foreign policy portfolio by President Donald Trump , is at the center of a pair of a shady deals that have seen Witkoff and Trump’s families enriched, alleged in a story published on Monday.

From the story:

This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts.

On one of those extravagant vessels, Mr. Witkoff sat down with a member of the ultrarich ruling family of the United Arab Emirates. He was meeting Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan ,

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