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.
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?