Qatar, a sponsor of Al Qaeda and Hamas, has brought up chunks of our political class like the old sheikhs used to buy out entire European department stores. The effects are all around us. What is amazing is how little we talk about it.

This story revealing that the Witkoff family was cashing in on Steve Witkoff’s baffling status as an international negotiator isn’t surprising. But it’s a New York Times story with a Qatari source which means that the only reason it exists is because Witkoff is Trump’s guy and because he wasn’t delivering what Qatar wanted.

That’s the sucker punch here.