If at times this year it seemed that Steve Witkoff, the US president’s Mr. Fix-it for pretty much everything, was much too close to the Kremlin, we now know why — thanks to a scoop from Bloomberg News.

Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev called a Bloomberg article fake, which included a transcript of his conversation with Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov regarding the US peace plan. Specifically, the report concerned the transmission of ideas about what should be included in the document,