Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his Qatari counterpart have signed an agreement outlining the terms of Qatar’s “unconditional donation” of a Boeing jet to the Pentagon, confirming that the US will pay nothing for the plane, according to a copy of the memorandum of understanding reviewed by CNN
One dictator to another dictator...
But Hillary’s email and Obama’s tan suit!
Could it be stripped and sold for parts? I guess the Qataris would have done that already if it was worth doing.
Please. Everybody knows the convicted felon is gonna take that thing with him if he ever leaves office, which is unlikely.
Most enterprises have regulations exactly against these types of bribes
Qatari Bribe Plane: $0 Getting the Qatari Bribe-Plane ready for service: $1 billion Gaining preferential treatment from the president: Priceless. There are some things in politics money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s bribe-planes. I’m just kidding: Everyone’s for sale.
Except Dolly. Dolly Parton has proven time and again she is not for sale.
Don't think CNN could be more ineffectual and incompetent, but have been consistent with their bias since that epic failure Chris Licht and now Mark Thompson. Thank Dog Harwood, Acosta, and Lemon are free to speak the truth and not constrained by sheeple who lack courage.
Poor America. Can it not afford a Boeing?
Nothing? bsky.app/profile/anne...
It will cost a fortune of OUR TAX DOLLARS to retrofit it! And now HE OWES THEM!!!This us Mafia shit!
dirty petrodollars
Sure, Jan.
A bribe. It’s a bribe. Just say it you cowards.
Ignore the cost to gut the plane in order to confirm it is secure.
And in return US will continue to trest Qatar as a civilised nation ?
Legalized bribes in the open
Oh, cut the shit.... It's Trumps "epstein" plane!!
Bad, but still a distraction.
Trump in Scotland. Hey Pete stir up some crazy shit back home . This Epstein shit isn’t dying off . They even heard about it here in good old Scotland. Well like they say in Scotland cheerio ! Good luck Pete ! Lol fucking crazy !
I just do not trust anyone from the Trump regime
Corruption in its prime.
Great. It can sit in storage until Trump has left office, and then he can do with it what he will. DO NOT spend taxpayer money outfitting a luxury plane for this monster. He'll probably be headed for prison as soon as he leaves, anyhow.
So the Pentagon now owns a jet that is has to "update" for hundreds of millions for it to replace Airforce 1, when they could have just bought a new one completely with their own specifications and proably cheaper.
just a billion bucks to "refurbish" it...
Free except for the billions to retro fit it to be Air Force 1. Waste and abuse
Oh, we will pay. I'm certain of that!
in other words, a bribe.
Except for the $900+ million it's going to cost to refurbish and retro-fit the damn thing. Fuck off.
A pure waste of money.
After they've torn it apart to search every square inch of it for bugging devices.
It's unconditional as long as...
It won't cost anything except a billion dollar refurb paid for by the American people and then Donald gets to keep it at the end of his term. The Art of the Scam!
HEGSETH MUST RESIGN. A B-52 plane almost crashed mid air into a domestic connecting flight full of citizens. Does no one react? Hegseth must resign.
Oh bullshit. We all know it will be Quid Pro Quo
We are paying for this “donation,” and have no benefit from it.
You can call a bribe if it’s a bribe.
It’s defenseless so a shitty SAM could shoot it down.
Apart from the cost of stripping it down to bare metal, component parts and wiping the software because of Russian-sponsored bugs? Or will the Rapist veto that, as he won't want to keep his good friend Bad Vlad out of the loop.
I’ll wait for confirmation from Qatar, thanks
The $$$ would buy a lot of food for gazas children
More honest reporting would give the actual truth. “Foreign country makes gift/bribe to US President.”
So presumably a nonTrumpy Congress could pass a law prohibiting any transfer of DoD assets to any presidential library or other private party?
Righttt
Jhh
We now know it will cost the American taxpayer $963 million, money Trump is stealing from a Pentagon allocation that was formerly allocated to refurbish North America's crumbling nuclear missile silos! Feeling confident he has your best interests at heart, MAGA??
Pay nothing except for the $1B+ it will cost to retrofit it. Also still unclear what will happen to it when Trump is out of office.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Lying
Taking a fucking jet as a “gift” from a foreign nation feels pretty Deep Statey to me.
No CASH, definitely paying something...
Among corrupt peoples, we understand each other well.
The most incredibly corrupt administration in history!!!!
It’s not unconditional! They think people are that stupid
Of course they do, he has called his own supporters idiots and morons.
This is corrupt, no other words for it, and no surprise
Call it corrupt!
I'm comfortable with this. The president cannot receive a plane from Qatar(home sweet home for Hamas) and then use it later as he claimed he would. It should not be used by the pentagon either unless they use it for simulations or drills or something.
A bribe
Corrupt to the core...Trump & his MAGA sycophants. I am sickened and appalled by the corruption and lack of competence by Trump & this disgraceful administration.
Glad we’re focused on the really meaningful important stuff.
CNN, check it out. When I was young, journalists were expected to have integrity. A journalist would be ruined for even the slightest hint of impropriety. This was so that people would believe what they said. You not recognizing this as a bribe makes people not believe anything you say.
Oh, why didn’t you say so; that makes everything ok, even though Trump gets to keep it for himself.
Donald Trump is a corrupt MAGA fake because he promotes populist rhetoric to serve his own interests, has a long history of ethical violations, including using his office for personal gain, undermining democratic institutions, and misleading his base while enriching himself and his allies.
Open and brazen corruption from the MAGA cartel
"So it’s no surprise that one of Washington’s biggest guessing games these days is assessing just where the price tag will end up, on top of the $4 billion already being spent on the wildly-behind-schedule presidential planes that Boeing was supposed to deliver last year. " - NYT
"Officially, and conveniently, the price tag [to renovate the plan] has been classified.[!]" - NYT
[See however the NYT article on:] What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One?
"So it’s no surprise that one of Washington’s biggest guessing games these days is assessing just where the price tag will end up, on top of the $4 billion already being spent on the wildly-behind-schedule presidential planes that Boeing was supposed to deliver last year. " - NYT
"Officially, and conveniently, the price tag [to renovate the plan] has been classified.[!]" - NYT
Quid Pro Quo is rarely memorialized in ink.
"Unconditional gift."
Taxpayers will pay for this along with all the tariffs the TACO is imposing. And by the way, this is disgusting and shameful and illegal
Stupid. A donation to Trumpy belongs to people of USA. Should have bought it for $1.
Why do our elected and unelected government officials and "representatives" encourage and allow other officials and representatives to get away with all kinds of nonsense that most people in the private sector, which is not (ostensibly) accountable to voters, would be fired for in a heartbeat?
Gotcha
Incorrect. US taxpayers will pay $1 billion or more to retrofit this plane for Trump. We can't have cancer research, but we can pay for that.
You have to be stupidly stupid to go for this crap. Courts need to put a stop to this. And really, you're going to let him take it with him when he's done with being a baby president?
The nearly $1 billion cost to renovate was hidden in the Pentagon budget. And Tubby will keep it for his personal use. (Aka the so-called Library)
who will pay for its maintenance, crew and fuel???
a bribe is a bribe however "unconditional" it is, and moreover trump is a traitor, period...
So what you are saying is when my wife gives me a blow job that I don’t owe her anything? You are talking crazy!!!’
Epstein
