R-Okla Sen. Markwayne Mullin recently insisted on a broadly critical negotiation with Qatar of over $400 million Temporary replacement of Air Force 1 The gift began under the Biden administration – not after the president Donald Trump He has been appointed.
“No one’s talking about [that] This same 747 has been negotiated for a year,” Marin told CNN on Wednesday.
“The Biden administration began these conversations. It didn’t start under the Trump administration. Why? Because we need Air Force 1 backup.”
Marin said Air Force 1, which was about 40 years ago, had no current backup side. The senator said the recent backup was removed from the service due to “structural issues.”
“The truth is that this conversation started with Biden and Qatar a year ago,” he said.
According to a spokesperson, Marin was aware of recent conversations with Catalis when information was collected about the Biden administration’s reported role.
Marine said he would give the media a “pass” because he didn’t know about the reported Biden-era negotiations. Doha government.
Qatar Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani dismissed the controversy in an interview with Fox News’ Special Report.
“I haven’t seen any point about this [debate]”Al Thani added that it is a “really unfair accusation that Qatar is trying to buy influence.”
On his part, Trump pushed back claims of corrupt intent to potentially accept gifts from Doha on behalf of the United States
He rejected allegations from Democrats like Rep. Richie Torres of New York, complained to the government’s accountability office that it was a “flying glyft,” and violated the constitution’s emolations clause that prohibits public servants from accepting existence or titles from royal and foreign governments.
“The Boeing 747 is given to the US Air Force/Doctor’s Department, not me!” Trump wrote on his true social platform.
“It is a gift from Qatar, a country we have protected over the years, that our government will use as a temporary air force.
Trump also said it was stupid not to acknowledge the US’s interim cost cuts.
Trump said the plane would be given to a pentagon rather than himself. Meanwhile, Marin and other defenders argued that there was no such kerfuffle when the US accepted the Statue of Liberty as a gift from the French government in the 1870s.
In an interview with Mullin, CNN host Jake Tapper said Congress has allowed that particular gift.
rear September 11, 2001Terrorist attacks, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the United States a large tear-shaped sculpture commemorating the murdered Americans.
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President Donald Trump will shake hands with former President Joe Biden at Trump’s inauguration. (Getty)
It is currently located at the Cape Liberty Cruise Port in New Jersey – witnessing Ground Zero, but Putin’s name was rubbed off from it by Bayonne officials after invading Ukraine.
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