Trump’s $400 million ‘flying palace’ gift from Qatar moves forward after ‘bribe’ backlash
The Pentagon and the Qatar government are close to concluding the agreement of President Donald Trump to the next Air Force One.
CNN reported Monday The language used in the agreement between the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and the Qatar counterpart can still be adjusted before an official announcement.
The transfer of the Generous Boeing 747-8 is labeled as ‘unconditional donation’.
The document said, “This donation was made in good faith and with the spirit of cooperation and mutual support between the parties,” he said. ‘Nothing in these consensus guards cannot be interpreted or interpreted as an offer, promise or acceptance of any bribery, unnecessary impact or corrupted application.’
When the Democrats – and even some Republicans announced that in May, the White House announced that the catasters would give the plane to the Americans, before the end of Trump’s second period, he made objections to get one new Air Force.
The eyebrows were further raised when the aircraft would follow Trump to the Presidential Library after his term of office was over.
In mid-February, Trump devoted time to visit the Qatar plane parked in West Palm Beach Airport, a few miles away from Mar-A-Lago.
The framework of the agreement was opened to the public before his trip to the Middle East, which contains a stop in Qatar Doha.
The Pentagon and the Qatar government are close to concluding the agreement that would turn President Donald Trump into the next Air Force One
The internal extraction of the Generous Boeing 747-8, called ‘unconditional donation’ from the Qatar Government to the US Department of Defense
After the journey, the Americans officially accepted the gift.
The first agreement was signed by Hegseth and Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Affairs Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.
It is unclear when the final contract will be signed.
A Pentagon spokesman on Monday Daily Mail, ‘We have nothing to share about this issue’ he said.
The plane is currently living in San Antonio, Texas.
The aircraft comes to the Ministry of Defense ‘, that is, the US taxpayers will pay for the upgrades to turn the Flying Palace into a flying chamber.
Hegseth tried to keep the price of the project quiet.
During the hearing of a Senate appropriations Committee in June, the Pentagon Chief, stating that the price required for the classification of the timeline and the price of the project is Democratic Sen. He irritated Jack Reed.
President Donald Trump toured the Flying Palace of Qatar in mid-February while spending time in Mar-a-lago in Florida
Hegset justified the privacy by saying that he would ‘ensure the security and security of the US President’.
The Ministry of Justice did not publish a note summarized by the Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi and summarizing the legal justification that allowed the Trump administration to accept the gift from the Qatar government.
On Monday, the Government Transparency Group, Press Freedom Foundation Freedom of Freedom of Information To access this document.
He argues that Bondi’s note, Qatar donation is legally intact as long as he goes to Trump’s presidential library at the end of the airplane period.
Trump is expected to establish a presidential library in Florida after changing his residence from local New York to Sunshine in 2019.
At the beginning of the first period, the President negotiated the price of two new Boeing planes to be used as Air Force, but the project was blocked by delays and cost -effectiveness.
Trump also designed a color scheme to mimic the ‘Trump Force One’ special plane.
When President Joe Biden took office, he chose to protect the traditional Kennedy -period color scheme in the new Air Force.
President, Daily Mail in February ‘Regardless of the’ New Air Force ‘preferred color scheme, he said.
