This may be a simple error by a media outlet, but if it’s not, this is deeply troubling.

In response to an inquiry from Ynet, the White House did not deny reports of indirect contact with Hamas. A State Department official said, “We cannot comment on ongoing negotiations, but we note recent statements from Qatar and Egypt indicating their continued efforts to reach an agreement. Brett McGurk and his team remain involved in these efforts.”

We already know from Steven Witkoff, the current envoy, that he largely outsourced the whole original ‘ceasefire’ to Brett McGurk who was Biden’s envoy.

Witkoff then lavishly praised McGurk.

In Jan, at Mar-a-Lago, Witkoff stated that “the Biden administration is the tip of the spear” in the Hamas negotiations. Biden has “got a solid team, and I appreciated that they’re allowing us to be collaborative.”

Much later, Witkoff told Tucker, “When I first got in and I was talking to Brett McGurk, who was the envoy on behalf of Biden, he was a smart guy.”

“He said to me, ‘This is where I want to get to, Steve.’ And so when I went in there, I went in with the imprimatur of the president.”

“Steve became a close partner of mine, I think it’s safe to say a friend,” McGurk told PBS.

McGurk’s involvement should have ended when the Biden administration did. Is that actually the case? Witkoff’s ‘big accomplishment’ in Gaza was implementing McGurk’s proposal as he already admitted. If McGurk is still involved that would raise a lot of red flags since he also joined Lux Capital which keeps bashing Trump.

But lately the Trump foreign policy on Israel and Iran is looking like it’s being copied from the Biden administration and that would make sense if Biden’s people were still running it.