Trump Administration Analyst Amit Segal JAN 18, 2026
AMIT SEGAL: Is Steve Naive?
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“There’s no plan for executions or an execution,” Trump said last Wednesday. “I’ve been told that on good authority. We’ll find out about it. I’m sure if it happens, I’ll be very upset.”
A strange statement to make while reports of protesters being gunned down in the streets by regime forces were still coming in.
The question is: who was this “good authority”?
It seems it was Trump’s envoy at large, Steve Witkoff, passing on a reassuring text from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
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