Qatari prime minister dismisses controversy surrounding Trump plan to accept gifted jet

It is a government-to-government transaction. It has nothing to do with personnel, whether it's on the US side or on the Qatari side, it's the Ministry of Defense and Department of Defense,

he said, echoing the White House's reaction to the backlash

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thaniqatari Prime Minister

Qatar has been always a reliable partner for the US, has been always stepping up to help and support the US, because we believe that this friendship needs to be mutually beneficial for both countries, cannot be a one-way relationship,

Sheikh Mohammed said

It is a government-to-government transaction,

Al-Thani said

Why would we buy an influence in the United States? If you look just in the last 10 years in the US-Qatar relationship. Qatar has been always there for the US, when it’s needed, whether it’s on the war against terror, whether it’s in the evacuation of Afghanistan, whether it’s on releasing hostages from different, different countries around the world,

Al-Thani said

Someday it will be like Ronald Regan. They decommission them,

Trump said

We will not do anything illegal. If there something illegal here, there would be many ways to hide these kind of transactions when will not be visible for the public. This is a very clear exchange that’s happening between two governments,

he said

I need to find out from the administration what exactly is going on,

Ernst added

Rick Scottflorida Senator

Qatar has a relationship with China, a relationship with Hamas. That would scare me,

Scott admitted

Gift from a foreign nation.”

He later posted a picture of the Statue of Liberty, which was presented to the US by France in the late 19th century, with a sign around its neck reading

Taking sacks of goodies from people who support Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera, all the rest, that’s not America First,

he said on his podcast

The Qataris fund the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered US Service Members. The same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across our border… I’m so disappointed,

she wrote on social media

Ben Shapiroconservative commentator

If this were [Joe] Biden, we would be furious.”

Echoing Ben Shapiro, she added

We cannot accept a $400 million ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits,

she declared,

I’m not flying on a Qatari plane. They support Hamas. I don’t know how you make it safe,

he said

They better sweep that plane from front to back,

she said

We’re not talking about a ride on the plane; we’re talking about the entire $400 million plane. I think it’s not worth the appearance of impropriety,

he said

Donald Trumppresident

President Trump is touring a new Boeing plane to check out the new hardware and technology. This highlights the project's failure to deliver a new Air Force One on time as promised."

Trump toured a Boeing 747-8 to express his anger, with White House communications manager Steven Cheung saying

Boeing would almost certainly have a clear breach of contract lawsuit it could bring, given it remains contracted to produce the new Air Force One planes. That would get messy and heated very quickly."

Attorney Bradley P. Moss told Newsweek

There's some assumptions baked into it that we're not sure are exactly appropriate and we're going to be looking at ways to bring that to the left,

Costello added

Karoline Leavittwhite House press secretary

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."

A statement by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sent to Newsweek said