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We will make sure that we do what’s necessary to ensure security of the aircraft,
Meink added
Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE,
Trump posted on his social media site during the trip
Donald Trump has shown time and again he will sell out the American people and the presidency if it means filling his own pockets,
Schumer said in a statement
It's a great gesture,
the 78-year-old billionaire told reporters at the White House last week when asked if the oil-rich Gulf state would expect anything in exchangeThey are giving the United States Air Force a jet."
When asked by reporters about the move in the Oval Office, Trump said only
The totality of gifts given to a president over their term doesn't get close to this level,
Libowitz saidSo 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,
he postedIt's not just bribery, it's premium foreign influence with extra legroom,
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I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you.”
When Trump was about the plane during a bilateral meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, Ramaphosa interjected, saying
We love it that Qatar wants to be friends with the United States again,
Hawley said
I wish you did. I’d take it,
Trump saidThe Secretary of Defense has directed the Air Force to basically start planning to modify the aircraft,
Meink said
Trump cannot accept a $400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar. Not only is this farcically corrupt, it is blatantly unconstitutional."
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., declared
The Department of Defense will work to ensure proper security measures and functional-mission requirements are considered for an aircraft used to transport the President of the United States,
Parnell said
If we can get a 747 as a contribution to our Defense Department to use during a couple of years while they're building the other ones, I think that was a very nice gesture,
Mr. Trump saidI see it as a normal thing that happens between allies,
the prime minister told the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha on Tuesday
This is the definition of corruption. Foreign governments putting money in the president’s pocket and then the US giving them national security concessions that hurt our own security.”
Murphy addedWhy did he choose these three countries for his first major foreign trip? It’s not because these are our most important allies or the most important countries in the world,
he said of Trump’s visit to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
The secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Wednesday
If President Trump insists on converting this plane to a hardened Air Force One before 2029, I worry about the pressures you may be under to cut corners on operational security,
Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, said as Mr. Meink was testifying