MSM Qatar Nukes American Media's Reporting on New Air Force One, Reveals Real Deal That's Great for America

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Qatar Nukes American Media's Reporting on New Air Force One, Reveals Real Deal That's Great for America​


The anti-Trump media beclowned itself again for stoking manufactured outrage claiming President Donald Trump will accept a jumbo jet from Qatar as a gift, while he awaits new Air Force One planes from Boeing pursuant to a 2018 contract.

Left-wing activists are disingenuously screeching that such a gift is tantamount to bribery.

As a reminder, these same leftists ignored or downplayed Joe Biden’s decades-long influence-peddling scheme involving both his brother, James, and his son, Hunter.

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Robert Weissman, co-president of the leftist watchdog Public Citizen, said Trump would violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause if he accepted a jet from Qatar, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“The concern with foreign gifts is that they can sway a president’s policy and predilections — and there’s little doubt that Qatar wants to gift Trump a ‘palace in the sky’ for exactly that reason,” Weissman said.

“Under the potential arrangement, which is raising legal and ethical concerns, the plane owned by the Qatari royal family would be used as Air Force One while Trump is in office after being retrofitted by a U.S. defense contractor,” the Journal reported.

The United States would not pay for the jumbo jet.

Predictably, this ignited an avalanche of left-wing hysteria, because heaven forbid U.S. taxpayers not foot the bill for everything.

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On Sunday, Ali Al-Ansari, Qatar’s media attaché to the United States, shot down the overblown media coverage.

“Reports that a jet is being gifted by Qatar to the United States government during the upcoming visit of President Trump are inaccurate,” Al-Ansari said.

“The possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration between Qatar’s Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense, but the matter remains under review by the respective legal departments, and no decision has been made,” he underscored.

The president will visit the Middle East this week — which includes stops in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — to discuss regional security and strengthen economic ties.

On Sunday, Trump mocked “Crooked Democrats” for pushing their twisted version of events in a blistering Truth Social post.

“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,” the president wrote.

“The Dems are World Class Losers!!!”

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The bottom line is, this supposed Qatari “gift” is merely a temporary arrangement wherein Qatar may lend a jet to the president while he waits for Boeing to finally provide Air Force One planes they had promised to deliver years ago.

The fact that Qatar would even need to make such a suggestion is humiliating for the United States and a damning rebuke of Biden’s incompetence.

In 2018, Trump agreed to a $3.9 billion deal under which Boeing would replace the Air Force One fleet — which are more than three decades old — with two new planes by 2021.

Boeing failed to deliver on the contract by 2021, at which point Trump was no longer president.

As of today, Boeing still has not delivered the planes from its 2018 deal with Trump.

What’s baffling is the Biden administration did nothing in response to Boeing’s apparent breach of contract.

The deal Trump had made with Boeing was to upgrade the Air Force One aircraft for use by the sitting U.S. president — whoever that may be.

During his failed tenure, Biden should’ve demanded contract delivery from Boeing. Instead, he did what he usually does: nothing.

In February, Trump expressed frustration over Boeing’s persistent delays, according to Air & Space Forces magazine.

“I’m not happy with Boeing,” Trump said. “It takes them a long time to do Air Force One.”

“We gave that contract out a long time ago as a fixed-price contract, and I’m not happy with the fact that it’s taking so long. And we may do something else. We may go and buy a plane or get a plane or something,” he added.

Last week, Qatar offered to temporarily lend Trump a plane to use as Air Force One. Notably, this arrangement would cost U.S. taxpayers nothing.

Predictably, Democrats and their left-wing media minions started whining over this potential arrangement.

In reality, this entire discussion is an abject embarrassment for the United States. The American president should be flying in a state-of-the-art aircraft that ensures his safety for the sake of national security.

 

Cacheman

Has No Life - Lives on TB
In reality, this entire discussion is an abject embarrassment for the United States. The American president should be flying in a state-of-the-art aircraft that ensures his safety for the sake of national security.
In reality I feel this is an abject embarrassment for Boeing, they can't deliver a product on time and likely not at the agreed price.....

And than nobody knows if it's even safe to fly in.
 

Melodi

Disaster Cat
I find this both amusing and sad. It was sad because Congress and others thought they could punish Trump by refusing to upgrade the planes in a timely fashion, and it was amusing because the Trump administration found a way around it.
 

Ractivist

Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
Trojan horse, put your president in our special plane....promise, he will always be safe.....promise.
I don't think you can search a plane of this magnitude and be sure there's not an off switch planted somewhere, or surveillance tools.
Give it to the dems.....let them stretch their wings.
 

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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Dash

Veteran Member
In the other thread I mentioned the book On the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille. The book was written in the 70’s but the gist is that explosives had been placed in two Concordes that were being built for Israel. They were placed in a way that made them both undetectable and unreachable. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I heard about this gift plane.

Qatar is a state sponsor of terrorism. I’m not comfortable with POTUS flying in an airplane “gifted” by them. There is too much at stake.
 

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
"The fact Qatar would even need to make such a suggestion is humiliating for the United States and a damning rebuke of Biden’s incompetence."

Well I understand the concept so I'm puzzled why the supposedly sophisticated, intelligent SJW Marxists seem not to.
 

AlfaMan

We're all Devo!
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The gift of this 747-8 is very nice on Qatar's part. It is being outfitted by L3 and that's an American company. L3 will tear that plane apart before delivering it to Pres. Trump. The Qataris are making an honest gift here in my opinion.

The "gift" of the plane is more interesting than the physical plane itself however. It's an action, a projection of soft power from a small middle eastern country wanting a piece of the world stage.

I don't know if yall see it where yall live; but here in DC Qatar is like a cool, extremely wealthy uncle who likes to do things for you, usually involving chunks of money. The country of Qatar seems to sponsor every other art showing in DC, or series of free concerts on the national mall; or lavishing tons of money on a festival last year on the mall promoting Qatar in general.

That Qatar festival on the mall last year was VERY impressive as I remember. The food was spectacular-they had hired chefs from the Food Channel to cook, they did free samples of many world cuisines and the food was absolutely delicious. I remember making a pig of myself over the food:), it was like taking a world tour with your taste buds. Yummy! They also featured Qatari cuisine; standard middle east fare essentially but also delicious. And free samples of Dubai chocolate. YUM! First time I'd tried it. Whoa that's good chocolate! They gave bars of Dubai chocolate away free; the size bar they gave free costs around $24.00 if you buy it at say Tysons Corner mall.

The festival ran 3 or 4 days as I remember; the stage on site (huge and as good as a Las Vegas stage) had all KINDS of music. I remember the jazz ensemble particularly, they played bossa nova :) They had rappers, classical chamber settings, rock, all kinds of music. They also had dance demonstrations from troupes all over the world. VERY elaborate, folks.

They have sponsored traveling art expositions at the national portrait gallery, one was a showing a few years back of Roman artifacts. It was a mind blowing exposition of artifacts from the Italian state museum as I remember. A high quality exibition and the book (yes, book like you'd get for a Christie's auction) was full color and of high quality. I still have mine here somewhere. Beautifully done exibition and again, Qatari soft power on display.

If you look at a lot of the negotiations in the middle east, Qatar is either hosting talks or being one of the partners of the talks. Qatar signed the Abraham accords as I remember (correct me if I'm wrong). Qatar wants to be recognized as a moderate voice of the middle east, and they're buying favor and trying to nudge themselves into a world leader. They want to be a middle eastern voice firmly entrenched in the western world's camp. Smart on their part and they do it far better than the Saudis have done.

So Qatar's offer of the jet is genuine. It's another manifestation of their projection of soft power. But they really want to be allies of the US and President Trump in particular.
 

et2

TB Fanatic
Not sure how that makes MAGA. Better … our own plane built here with our money. Just feels cheesy … dirty … cheap … weak … but that’s JMHO.
 

Outlaw-16

Senior Member
One way to test out the potential gift aircraft to make sure its 'safe' - let malignancy piglosi and her cronies use it for her drunken junkets. If something happens, not a big loss. We all know how malignancy wants to travel using the taxpayer's dime and Trump shut her down his last term. This time, let her go, use the plane to her heart's content as long as she takes lying, crying chuckie, old bernie, aoc, the squad and any other politician that is a follower of libtardism.

More than likely, nothing will happen and then Trump can reinforce why there needs to be a newer air frame for AF1.

Really not seeing how many airlines can still trust Boeing after all the issues its had in recent years. Even with the projected lifespan of a 747 being 25-30 years, at year 20, or earlier based on flight hours,( I think it was something like 140k-160k flight hours or maybe less. Been a while since my grandfather and I spoke about his work on the 747) it was time to get an upgraded air frame.
 

vector7

Dot Collector
Hillary Clinton: No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.

Tell us more Hillary...

Hildabeast turned her comments off! What an absolute chicken shit
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AlfaMan

We're all Devo!
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Has President Trump used the new Sikorsky 92 Marine One(s)?
It's flying, and has been for probably 2years now around the DC area. You see it all the time.

But I've not seen any TV showing him getting onto it or off it at the WH. The units are based out of Quantico marine base; one assumption is they're training up a cadre of pilots for the air craft. Don't know but I saw it yesterday flying locally.
 

auxman

Deus vult...

Why doesn’t Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC Fake News, especially since I just won $16,000,000 based on the Fake and Defamatory reporting of Liddle’ George Slopadopolus. He was given warnings, but just couldn’t be restrained by “management.” Now I see they are at it again, and I again give these SleazeBags fair warning! The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than 1.4 Trillion Dollars in the United States of America, deserves much better than Misleading (Fake!) News. Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane, because they are not. Instead, and as Fake News ABC fully knows and understands, this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/ Defense Department, AND NOT TO ME. By so doing, they are saving our country, and the American Taxpayer, hundreds of millions of dollars. ABC Fake News is one of the WORST.
 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB

Why doesn’t Chairman Bob Iger do something about ABC Fake News, especially since I just won $16,000,000 based on the Fake and Defamatory reporting of Liddle’ George Slopadopolus. He was given warnings, but just couldn’t be restrained by “management.” Now I see they are at it again, and I again give these SleazeBags fair warning! The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than 1.4 Trillion Dollars in the United States of America, deserves much better than Misleading (Fake!) News. Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane, because they are not. Instead, and as Fake News ABC fully knows and understands, this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/ Defense Department, AND NOT TO ME. By so doing, they are saving our country, and the American Taxpayer, hundreds of millions of dollars. ABC Fake News is one of the WORST.
Not only not to ME, but has been in negotiations under Biden.


MSM needs to go smoke some more weed.
 
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