Trump's Go-To Broker Takes NYC-Style Dealmaking to World on Edge

Steve Witkoff, a long-time Trump confidant and fellow Manhattan real estate mogul, is taking center stage in some of America’s biggest geopolitical negotiations.

Steve WitkoffPhotographer: Evelyn Hockstein/AFP/Getty Images
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(This story was originally published March 12. Witkoff will lead a delegation for talks in Russia next week.)

The photo is propped on a chair in the West Wing — a reminder, as if one were needed, of the abrupt turn life has taken for Steve Witkoff.