The DOD has taken possession of Qatari gift

you have any proof other than your hatred for Trump that it was a bribe?

 

If it isn't, then why is Trump keeping the plane when he isn't President any longer? Should be easy to prove that this isn't bribery: don't benefit from the plane and let his successors have it.

Regardless, the Qataris are pretty famous for bribing foreign officials. But sure, I guess they gave the President a $400 million "gift" with no expectations...

 

I've blessed a lot of hearts in my day. I'm not sure I have enough blessings for this one

 

If someone I dont know is like "hey buddy" I'm already thinking they want something, and that isnt a $400 million dollar aircraft

 

You can be that dumb to not know the answer

 

Well clearly it isnt to destroy Hamas and their leadership. I think I've made my conclusions clear on other threads.

 

so no proof just your assumption

 

The lack of any shred of concern from the Trump-right (separate and distinct from actual conservatives) makes more sense once you realize that they have no actual principles. If you made them assess these scenarios in a blind exercise without names or political parties they'd take the opposite stance in every scenario because they are enormous hypocrites who only care about what makes their political opponents mad.

 

I do not pretend to know what is in President Trump's head concerning the world stage

 

I hope it does take longer. Will the DOD gift the Qatar plane to Trump's library in 2029?

 

Are they going to paint a golden dome on it?

 

this is a pretty level headed thoughts on this

 

How many kids need to give up how many dolls to retrofit and maintenance this? Just curious.

 

Really a poor attempt to downplay the situation quite honestly. Let's go through some of the points:

• This is a stopgap until the current Boeing contract can be fulfilled.
  • This fails to explain how we'd be able to retrofit an existing plane faster than building one from the ground up. If that were the case, that's what Boeing would have done in the first place. We'd also have the likely $1 billion+ expense to retrofit it and for what? A very, very temporary stopgap by the time this plane is ready?
• Trump won't actually use the plane after it's gifted to the library because it will be too expensive to run and maintain.
  • This glosses over a pretty big point that Trump wouldn't be paying for it, the Trump library, aka the taxpayers, would be paying for those expenses. We have ample evidence from Trump's time in office that he pays no regard to the expenses he racks up on the taxpayer dime (more golf trips than any president in history, trip to the super bowl, UFC events, etc.)

This video also misses a few enormous points:

• There is no pressing need to replace the current AF1 and take on this expense. It's still safe and effective, it's just old and not as nice as this luxury plane.
• Security concerns of accepting this plane from a nation that isn't exactly an ally of ours.
• What Qatar will expect in return for gifting this.

 

Criminals like to be bribed. Along with revenge and staying out of jail, being bribed is really our elected felon's only purpose for being in office.

The only surprise would be if he didn't unlawfully enrich himself.



Edit; I suppose it would also be surprising if anyone in the MAGA Trump-worship community opposed any of his unethical conduct.

 

It will cost almost $1 billion to make it Air Force 1 ready and 2 years to complete. Are you ok with spending $1 billion so Trump can use a plane for a year? Keep in mind we still will have to pay for another plane that we'll actually keep.