The liberal media saw the principals in the story: Donald Trump, Qatar, airplanes, and potential bribery. And like clockwork, they got the story dead wrong.
Liberals were more concerned about this fake news production than the
new trade deal between the United States and China. We knew better. Let
this sit because the folks who will run with it will always be wrong,
and lo and behold, that’s what happened.
Confirming
ABC News, the Trump administration is set to accept a luxury plane from
the Qatari royal family which will be retrofitted and used as Air Force
One during his second term, per two people familiar. It will be
transferred from the Qatari Ministry of Defense to the…
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 11, 2025
BREAKING:
Qatar now calling the report of gifting a jet to Trump “inaccurate,”
says a “possible transfer” of a plane for “temporary use as Air Force
One” is under consideration - NBC
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 11, 2025
This stinks. No to Qatar. https://t.co/U4XEPbKuGt
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 11, 2025
The
New York Times and others reported on it, which I believe was initially
an ABC News scoop. I couldn’t care less—the story turned out to be
total crap. Here it goes: the Qatari royal family is considering gifting
a 747 to the US, which will be upgraded to serve as the next Air Force
One. As you can tell, the liberal media went haywire (via NYT):
The
Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a
donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as
Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever
received by the U.S. government, several American officials with
knowledge of the matter said.
The plane would then be donated to
President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, two senior
officials said. Such a gift raises the possibility that Mr. Trump would
have use of the plane even after his presidency ends.
Mr. Trump
confirmed the fact that he anticipates receiving the plane in a post on
social media on Sunday evening, after a day of controversy in which even
some Republicans privately questioned the wisdom of the plan. Mr. Trump
suggested that Democrats were “losers” for questioning the ethics of
the move.
“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,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Anybody can do that! The Dems are World
Class Losers!!!”
While a Qatari official described the proposal
as still under discussion and the White House said that gifts it
accepted would be done in full compliance with the law, Democratic
lawmakers and good government groups expressed outrage over the
substantial ethical issues the plan presented. They cited the
intersection of Mr. Trump’s official duties with his business interests
in the Middle East, the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane
and the assumption that Mr. Trump would have use of it after leaving
office. Sold new, a commercial Boeing 747-8 costs in the range of $400
million.
“Even in a presidency defined by grift, this move is
shocking,” said Robert Weissman, a co-president of Public Citizen, a
consumer advocacy organization. “It makes clear that U.S. foreign policy
under Donald Trump is up for sale.”
Mr. Trump’s own private
plane, known as “Trump Force One,” is an older 757 jet that first flew
in the early 1990s and was then used by the Microsoft co-founder Paul
Allen. Mr. Trump bought it in 2011. The Qatari jet, if Mr. Trump
continued flying it after leaving office, would give him a substantially
newer plane for his own use.
pic.twitter.com/bNvoefce1c
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025
But
I was told that Trump was being personally given a 747 and that this
was bribery, and it turns out instead that the department of defense is
getting an aircraft, as opposed to giving it to another country for
once.
Absolutely no one, including the people who immediately… https://t.co/nivKeK0mPV
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 12, 2025
And it turned out to be totally untrue:
Vindicated. Didn’t even take 12 hours. https://t.co/R3pA4aZv9N
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 11, 2025
Except it isn’t true https://t.co/odJFcPPfaI
— @instapundit (@instapundit) May 11, 2025
Fake News
Boeing
is so far behind schedule with the new Air Force One ordered years ago
that Trump asked a Florida Defense contractor called L3Harris to
overhaul a 747 once used by the Qatari government https://t.co/I7Hljtglul
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) May 11, 2025
All
you people had to do was wait a few minutes for the inevitable
correction to the regime media story about this Qatari jet but you
couldn’t because you couldn’t control your bizarre urge to promote
anything that undermine Donald Trump. And you wonder why people don’t
read your…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 11, 2025
The liberal media’s allergy or inability to cover anything the Trump
White House does remains an ongoing issue. They’re undefeated in
debasing themselves; it’s become almost a masochistic exercise.
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