No, the Qatar royal family gave away $400 million in Boeing 747-8 giant jets, known as the government's "Flying Palace", and it is reported that Donald Trump's presidential library is reportedly different from France. But that's what Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to ask for on Sunday.
“Even if Qatar is not asking for any return delivery right now, I mean, this is a bill that could expire,” CNN host Jake Tapper internationality Said to Bessent. "No one... just gave $400 million in planes, just for the good."
"Well, I don't know, Jack," Bescent said. "The French gave us the Statue of Liberty. The British gave us the table of firmness. I'm not sure they asked for anything in advance."
"The more important aircraft deal is that Catali Airlines has $100 billion orders from Boeing," Bessent added.
"Well, I just want to say the Statue of Liberty, which is authorized by Congress, it belongs to the American people," Tapper said. It did not belong to the president at the time. ”
Bessent's argument echoes conservative influencers like Ann Coulter, whose X post is compared in a community note, which was checked in a community note, noting that unlike the plane, Congress authorized the acceptance of the statue of freedom.
In addition, the French people handed over the statue to the American people, which became a public monument that the public could access. Trump said planes from Qatar will be transferred from the U.S. Air Force to Trump's presidential library. What this means remains to be seen. Will Trump continue to use the plane after the president? Can the public access it in the library? The details are not clear, although Trump claims he won't use it once he leaves the office.
It is obvious that Trump himself has clearly promised to "protect" Qatar, the administration helped fund Hamas and has a history of buying political influence with its vast wealth.
"We have never built a relationship with Qatar like we are now," Trump said during his recent trip to the Middle East. "We will protect you."
"We will protect this country," he added. "It's a very special place with a special royal family. ... They are great people and they will be protected by the United States of America."
Constitutional experts are concerned about gifts that may violate the Emergency clause, which states that without Congress’s approval, federal office holders cannot “accept anything of the present, Emergency, office or ownership of any kind of thing”.
"This particular aircraft gift is the main enjoyment for the next three and a half years ... and then for the rest of his life, only Donald Trump will be contributed," Frank Bowman, a law professor at the University of Missouri, told Politifact. "It's a kind of Scot, you slice it because the benefit is one person."
Bowman added that since the aircraft's ownership was reportedly transferred from the Air Force to Trump's library, "the idea that it was a gift that was given to the country entirely from the water."
"Accepting the Catari aircraft will require consent under the clear provisions of the Constitution," said a distinguished legal and government researcher at Penn State's Dickinson Law School.
National security experts also raised potential issues with accepting aircraft.
"I didn't blame the Katari government for anything. But, on the other hand, you can't rule out the existence of bad actors and insert the hearing device throughout the process," Richard Aboulafia, a aviation analyst and director of the Aerodynamic Advisory Bureau, told NPR.
Jets aren't the only gift to the Trump Presidential Library. Excess donations from Trump's inauguration committee will also be transferred to the library Wall Street Journal source. The $22 million settlement between Trump and Meta (owned by Facebook) and $15 million settlement with Disney (owned by ABC News) will also be donated to Trump's Presidential Library Foundation. There is no indication of how these funds are used.
Trump attacked ABC News on Saturday night in a truth society post. ABC first reported the news about the plane from Qatar.
"Why did Chairman Bob Iger not do something for ABC fake news, especially because I just won $16,000,000 based on fake and defamatory reports from George Slopadopolus of Liddle," Trump wrote.
"Everyone, everyone, including lawyers, has been told that ABC cannot say that Qatar has given me a free Boeing 747 aircraft because they are not," Trump continued. "Instead, as the fake news ABC fully understands and understands, this highly respected country is donating the planes to the U.S. Air Force/Defense Department, not to me. By doing so, they are saving our country, with taxpayers in the U.S. for hundreds of millions of dollars. ABC fake news is the worst."