Yea….
You Read THAT Right…..
Sceemingly Donald Trump is GETTING what sounds like a’deal’ Boeing 747-8 airplane ‘gift’ for the US Air Force that come’s back to HIM…
President Trump is set to accept a luxury Boeing 747 jet as a gift from Qatar, according to multiple reports.
The Qatari royal family is set to hand over a Boeing 747-8 jet to the president’s administration, according to a Sunday report from ABC. The outlet also reported that Trump will be able to employ the plane as Air Force One up to right before the end of his second term, with the Trump presidential library foundation taking ownership of the jet later on, per sources.
In a statement to NewsNation, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not confirm the specifics of the deal but said, “Any gift given by a foreign government is always accepted in full compliance with all applicable laws. President Trump’s Administration is committed to full transparency.”
ABC News reported the gift will come amid a Trump trip to Qatar next week, but both the government of Qatar and a White House official denied the timing.
However, Qatar’s media attache to the U.S. said in a Sunday statement that “Reports that a jet is being gifted by Qatar to the United States government during the upcoming visit of President Trump are inaccurate.”
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“I bought a plane. It’s really two planes, Air Force One. Now if Boeing would build the damn thing it would be nice, too. We don’t build like we used to. We don’t build too fast,” Trump said during a Republican Governors Association reception.
“I gave the order out about six years ago. They’re still waiting. Getting a little tired of it,” the president added.
ABC said White House and Justice Department attorneys concluded in an analysis that Trump could accept the plane as gift to the U.S….
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House lawyer David Warrington found the gift “legally permissible” in the case of the ownership of the jet going to Trump’s presidential library when he finishes up his second round in the White House, according to sources, ABC News reported…..
Note….
I support Trump getting a newer plane sooner….
But NOT his lending it the US Government for ONLY his use….
And him getting it for ‘FREE” as sewveral million dollar ‘GIFT
Trump blasts Democratic criticism of Qatar plane gift: ‘World Class Losers!!!’
President Trump attacked Democratic lawmakers for criticizing his upcoming receipt of a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar.
In a Sunday night post on Truth Social, the president dismissed critics of a reported plan for Trump to receive a Boeing 747-8 airplane from the government of Qatar. The plane would replace Air Force One, according to several media reports, and would be kept by Trump’s eventual presidential library after the end of his term.
While the White House did not confirm details about the transaction Sunday, the president confirmed the that Defense Department would receive the gifted plane.
“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA,” Trump wrote….
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, called the reported deal “a grift.”
“Trump must seek Congress’ consent to take this $300 million gift from Qatar. The Constitution is perfectly clear: no present “of any kind whatever” from a foreign state without Congressional permission. A gift you use for four years and then deposit in your library is still a gift (and a grift),” Raskin wrote in a post on X…..
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