In this February 15, 2025, a Boeing 747 was on the asphalt of Palm Beach International Airport after the US President Donald Trump toured the plane on 15 February 2025.
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The willingness of US President Donald Trump to accept a lush Jumbo of the royal family of Qatar has criticized the legality of what would mark the largest foreign gift that the US government has ever received.
Trump is preparing to accept a Boeing 747-8 that he will use as Air Force one, four sources that are familiar with the Toled NBC News plan.
The ownership of the gift is expected to be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation Elf Trump ends his second term, according to two of the sources.
A senior official of the Ministry of Justice told NBC News that the Ministry of Legal Adviser has drawn up the Memo of the Ministry of Justice, approved by the attorney -general Pam Bondi, who approves the legality of the Ministry of Defense and accepts the gift of a 747 of Qatar to be used to be used to be used to be used design design design design Trump. Such a memo that you have not publicly released.
Trump spoke with reporters in the White House on Monday, said that any acceptance of the plane should delay from the American manufacturer BoeingWhat makes the famous double deck 747.
“You look at the sum of the Arab countries and the plans they have parked on the planet of the United States of America, it is like another planet,” Trump said.
“I have a lot of respect for leadership and for the leader of Qatar. They knew about it [manufacturing delays] Because they buy Boeings, they buy a lot of Boeings, and they knew and said we would like to do sumsting. And if we can get 747 as a contribution to our Ministry of Defense to use for a coupling of years while they build the other ORT units, I think that was a fresh fun gesture, “Trump continued.
‘Foreign influence’
Democratic legislators and Trump -Bondemaden have Sharpy criticized the reported step and say that the lush nature of the gift arouses legal and ethical concerns.
“I don’t know who should hear this, but no, Donald Trump cannot accept $ 400 million flying palace from the royal family of Qatar,” said the American senator for Vermont Bernie Sanders on social media platform X.
“Not only is this Farcicular Correction, it is clearly unconstitutional. The congress should not allow an exaggerated kleptocracy to litigate procedure,” said Sanders.
In the meantime, Laura Loomer, the extreme right-wing ally of Trump, said that accepting Qatar’s aircraft would be a “stain” for the Trump government.
In a post about social, however, Trump seemed to defend the prospect that Qatar was giving the planet his administration.
“So the fact that the Defense apartment receives a gift, for free, from a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 -year Air Force One, Temparily, in a different public and transparent transaction, so the crooked democates that we pay, is top.
The news comes when Trump is preparing to visit Qatar this week about what his first major foreign trip of his second term will be.
Ali Al-Ansari, Qatar’s Media Lattaché, told CNBC that all reports that the Jet would be overtaken during the trip.
“The possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently being considered between the Ministry of Defense of Qatar and the US Department of Defense, but the issue continues to be assessed by the respective legal department, and not a decision you have made,” said Al-Ansari.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that she was not worried about Qatar who expected the subject in exchange for the planet and said they know that Trump “only works with the interests of the American public in mind.”
In a statement provided to CNBC on Monday, Leavitt said: “Every gift given by a foreign government is always added in full compliance with all applicable laws. The government of President Trump is committed to full transparency.”
The plane will not be presented to the president this week, while Trump is in the region, according to an official of the White House who has received anonymous to describe an evolving situation
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer argued that accepting such a gift ‘foreign influence’ welcomed.
“Nothing says ‘America first’ like Air Force One, Broucht to You by Qatar. It’s not just bribery, it’s premium foreign influence with extra Legrom,” Schumer said on X.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) AWD MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime: “I am sorry good and wrong still matters,” Boyle said.
“We have to pursue this legally for the courts, we have to make the public aware. It is absolutely remarkable, the record levels of corruption we see,” I have added.
– Emma Graham from CNBC contributes to reporting
