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US President Donald Trump and his trusted advisers on matters of war and peace: his golfing buddy Steve Witkoff and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Pilita Clark
When US President Donald Trump turns for advice on his war in Iran, it is sobering to consider who he finds.
There is his golfing friend Steve Witkoff, the spectacularly unqualified property developer who is Mr Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East.
