Sen. KELLY: "Can't send 'two real estate developers' to negotiate peace."

[Kid Berwyn]

When it comes to assigning blame, I like Democrats who make things clear.

Kelly rips Witkoff, Kushner role in Iran talks: Can’t send ‘two real estate developers’ to negotiate peace

Story by Sophie Brams
The Hill, April 11, 2026

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Saturday criticized the involvement of special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Middle East diplomacy, as the two sit down with Iranian officials for trilateral talks on bringing the six-week conflict with Iran to an end.

“You can’t send the two real estate developers to negotiate a peace with another region,” Kelly said during the National Action Network Convention in New York City.

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Kelly suggested on Saturday that Trump had committed “strategic” blunders in the conflict, arguing that Trump went into it “without a plan, without a timeline, without an exit strategy.”

He faulted Trump for the prolonged Iranian blockade of the strait, a vital shipping channel that transports about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

“There is one person responsible for closing the Strait of Hormuz. It’s Donald Trump,” he said. “What Donald Trump taught the Iranians is they now have a strategic asset that they can exploit for decades to our detriment.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kelly-rips-witkoff-kushner-role-in-iran-talks-can-t-send-two-real-estate-developers-to-negotiate-peace/ar-AA20F2TO

Yet, USG calls Jared.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. But ... but ... but ...

Blitzkrieg always worked so well!

[Kid Berwyn]

2. That's why the bunker.

Super-duper guaranteed to withstand Godzilla.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. lol, and you're right! /nft

[MerryBlooms]

4. They're going in with a money making plan. It will be a trump

Money making miracle. Let the oil flow. Nothing happens unless it benefits trump or his family.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Trump wants a piece of the Hormuz action.

Trump says he’s considering ‘joint venture’ with Iran for Strait of Hormuz tolls

Excerpt…

“We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture,” the president told Karl, who shared Trump’s response on the social platform X. “It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people. It’s a beautiful thing.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5821343-trump-us-iran-ceasefire-deal-joint-venture-strait-of-hormuz/

[MerryBlooms]

9. Explains why official Sec of State is not invited or involved

One money making scheme after another. Probably be "Hormuz Strait ", coins available soon. Bigliest, bloodiest, most expensive coins, ever!

[FakeNoose]

13. This is how the "shadow government" operates

It's all about what goes into Chump's (or Chump's family's) pocketbook. He's just doing business like this is all normal. Jared gets a cut of course, so does Witkoff. That's WHY they are there.

WTF??? People have been jailed for less than this. Just ask Oliver North.

[MerryBlooms]

5. btw, diesel over $6 a gallon here in southern Oregon, where all the trucker protesters?

Ope, can't block Dem busses over nonsense... Too busy losing their businesses to tariffs and fuel costs. Still got trump's back! Ugh.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Billionaires can't drink diesel.

They’ll be surprised a few weeks after the trucks stop running and Security doesn’t answer the phone.

[DBoon]

6. Their "exit plan" is to ensure the next president takes all the blame

They've already done that with Afghanistan

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Tradition!

Nixon keeps Vietnam War boiling and corrupts government.
Jimmy Carter cleans house, starts USSR’s Vietnam in Afghanistan, and gets booted.
KKK Reagan corrupts government and foists 46 years of Trickle Down 4EVER.
Papa Doc Bush further corrupts government, loots the S&Ls and creates illegal war on Iraq.
William J. Clinton cleans house and balances the budget by tossing safety net for poor.
Baby Doc Bush corrupts government, misses approaching 9-11, and makes illegal war on Iraq, after first being forced into Afghanistan, loots the banks.
Barack Obama cleans house, restores the banks, bonuses the banksters, and moves forward.
Traitor Trump gets a boost from Vladimir Putin and corrupts government, refuses to leave office, claims election stolen, leads Insurrection, steals Pentagon Top Secrets.
Joseph R. Biden cleans house, follows the law and begins prosecution of a former president for myriad high crimes and treasons; meanwhile Trump hogs the airwaves courtesy of the oligarchs who own them and escapes justice, forced to step down after a disastrous debate his professional “consultants” demanded, withdraws from re-election.
Now comes the worst part, as the re-selected Trump, Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka dial in Vlad Putin and Bibi Netanyahu bring NAZI mayhem mainstream.

[msongs]

7. why are we paying little marco the florsheim guy? nt

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Little did he know he wasn't going dancing.

One’s Rep has to be at the bottom of the tank for the Iranians and Pakistanis to think Couchhumper McThiel an upgrade.

ETA: Marco still is smarter than Ted Cruz.