Chris Murphy says Trump strategically visited Gulf states ‘willing to pay him off’ as backlash rises against luxury offer
Donald Trump’s acceptance of a $400m Boeing jet from Qatar is the “definition of corruption”, a leading Democrat said on Sunday, as several senior Republicans joined in a bipartisan fusillade of criticism and concern over the luxury gift.
Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut, condemned the “flying grift” on NBC’s Meet the Press as he assailed the president’s trip to several Gulf states this week that included a stop in Qatar.
“Why 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.
At this point, I think the other political people are just jealous. They are all like “this is corrupt or illegal.” And not a single one has done anything other than make a very general and obvious statement.
I love stuff like this because it shows the cognitive dissonance on the right really, really well. They hate foreigners and imported stuff EXCEPT just for times like this, when it makes a lot of sense for the USA to get this “gift” from a foreign nation that doesn’t seem to line up with what MAGA says a country should be like.
It’s exhausting to keep up with. Are Islamic countries “based” now?
Trump said this in 2017: “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Does he no longer feel that way? Are we supposed to like them now?
At this point I’d rather they just let him keep it for personal use only and move on. I don’t want to get stuck footing the bill to unfuck that thing and get it up to air force one standards.
Better idea, scrap it, shred the whole thing.
Even betterer, give the plane to Snoop Dogg to film Soul Plane 2: Qatari Boogaloo
Samuel L Jackson. Snakes on a plane.
Sheikhs on a plane? (Edit: spelling)
Yeah. Totally not bribery to do that. Definitely not. Rejecting the gift and not opt to get it up to standards totally wouldn’t give the smallest claim to not be very corrupt. Rejecting the gift also wouldn’t save us time and money. Nope definitely not
Rejecting it is not on the table. Are you people in the comments fucking stupid??? Do any of you live here on planet earth??? He’s taking it. It’s done. He doesn’t give a fuck about if it looks like a bribe. He will brag it was a bribe. All we can hope for is to save the estimated 1 billion it’s going to cost to gut it and rebuild it to af1 standards. So then he’ll have a 1.4 billion dollar plane when he leaves office paid for by tax payer money.
What is public pressure and congressional pressure?
Nah, just let him use it for whatever and whenever. Hell, just let him use it as is if he is impatient to fly in it.
When it turns out to be a massive liability to everyone on board. I am only seeing win-win scenarios with minor collateral damage in worst case scenarios.
It’s not like they are going to drop it from the sky. They are just going to listen to all Trump’s shit for more leverage for blackmail.
why when we can wait for more Signal Leaks to occur?
