Donald Trump attracted a fierce return of the same way some of his most dedicated supporters The controversy of the jumbo of Qatar.
The president said he was ready to accept a $ 400 million Boeing 747-8 – that the leading family of Qatar would have planned to offer as a gift – which will be used as Air Force One, then transferred to the Presidential Library Foundation Trump when he leaves his functions.
The conservatives and the Democrats flame on this decision.
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD.), The best democrat of the Chamber's supervisory committee, Ventile on social networks: “Trump must request the consent of the congress to take this gift of $ 300 million in Qatar. The constitution is perfectly clear: no presence” of no kind “of a foreign state without authorization from the congress. A gift that you use for four years, then to table your library is always a gift (and a grade).”
“It is not a good idea even if the plane was given to the American government. But Trump can keep the plane ???” Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) Written on xformerly Twitter. “It's just a cash payment in Trump in exchange for favors. Just very illegal.”
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) Has smoked: “Congress should not allow this excessive kleptocracy to take place.”
Head of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer (Dn.y.) added: “Nothing says” America first “as Air Force One, brought by Qatar. It is not only corruption, it is a high -end foreign influence with an additional leg space. ”
Former representative Adam Kinzinger (R-ill.), A Trump's long-standing critic, request: “Didn't Hunter Biden sold a painting and has been investigated for four years?”
The Democratic Party, meanwhile, slammed him as “corruption at sight. “”
On the other side of the aisle, the conservative and expert radio host Erick Erickson posted on social networks: “The Qatari government is not our friend, cooperates with Iran and its proxies, and finances terrorism and pro-terrace propaganda in the world.”
And the far -right conspiracy Laura Loomer, generally a vocal supporter of Trump criticized the movement.
“I love President Trump. I would take a bullet for him. But, I have to call a cat a cat,” she wrote, adding that it will be “really such a task on the administrator if it's true. And I say that like someone who would take a ball for Trump. I'm so disappointed.”
Jordan Libowitz, by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Watchdog, was Quoted by the Associated Press By saying: “You must ask yourself if he does a foreign policy – in particular with regard to the Middle East – how much he is influenced by his gifts and business.”
Trump, however, defended him in an article on his Truth social platform, writing:
“So, the fact that the Ministry of Defense obtains a gift for free, from an airplane 747 to replace the Air Force One, 40, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, therefore disturbs the twisted democrats they insist so that we pay, the best dollar, for the plane. Everyone can do it! Demons are world class losers !!!
