Morgan Calls Witkoff’s Putin Praise “Bootlicking”

AI summary

What does Morgan say about the praise? At 24:17, Piers Morgan says calling Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” was not serious diplomacy but “bootlicking of the worst possible kind.” He adds that Putin was laughing at the praise. (evidenceIndex 0) Why did Witkoff’s comments raise eyebrows? At 00:46, Morgan describes Steve Witkoff’s Moscow trip as an effort to arrange a Trump-backed meeting between Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.

He says Witkoff began with a groveling address that appeared to embarrass even Kremlin officials. (evidenceIndex 1) Does Morgan link the trip to Trump’s stance toward Zelensky? Yes. At 01:16, Morgan says Trump places blame for failing to end the war on Ukraine and Zelensky rather than on Putin, whom he identifies as the person who started it.

At 01:58, he contrasts the demand that Zelensky make a deal with Putin’s invasion. (evidenceIndex 2; evidenceIndex 3) The supplied passages do not explain Witkoff’s own reasoning for the remark.