Hillary Clinton weighed in with frequent sense Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s intent to simply accept a complimentary Air Power One alternative from Qatar.
“No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return,” the previous secretary of state wrote on X, previously Twitter. “Be serious.”
Since information of the pending deal broke sparking issues about its ethics, constitutionality and safety, Trump has supplied myriad justifications for saying sure to the supply.
“Why wouldn’t I accept a free gift?” Trump requested Fox Information’ Sean Hannity this week aboard the present Air Power One.
At Hannity’s suggestion, Trump additionally implied the freebie can be compensation for the USA’ costly efforts to attempt to maintain the Center East and elsewhere safe.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani dismissed accusations that the lavish present might be seen as shopping for affect. “I don’t see any basis for this accusation, unless there are some people who are just trying to select who should be a friend of the U.S. and who should not,” he mentioned on Fox Information Wednesday.
The response of Clinton, who misplaced the 2016 presidential election to Trump, echoed that of many Democrats and even some Republicans concerning the deal. (The plane would later be transferred to the Trump presidential library, in line with the administration’s plan.)
One of many put up outstanding GOP lawmakers, Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), mentioned, “I don’t think it looks good or smells good.”
“It just doesn’t seem right,” Paul instructed HuffPost. “We make decisions on troops there. I mean, there’s just a lot of foreign policy decisions. And I think people will think that it could possibly sway your decision-making process when you’ve gotten a ride on it every day, and it’s a really nice plane or something.”
