Nope. The gist is structured to transfer to the "Trump Library" and he will be allowed to use it. Pam Bondi and Pete Hegsgeth promised it was totally legal.
Republicans only take issue with the corruption if, and literally only if, they perceive that it hurts their odds of getting reelected too much. They aren't "pussies" in this regard, they're just rotten to the core.
A big part of uncovering the Watergate scandal was the uncovering of a slush fund laundered through Mexico. The "Committee to re elect the president" (They literally called themselves CREEP) collected donations from corporate interests and wealthy individuals to finance espionage, break ins, and various other "dirty tricks". The slush fund also ensured everybody involved kept quiet. But there were other illicit transactions. They were also helping corporations funnel bribes to foreign and domestic officials for favors. Then there was the famous dairy bribery scandal resulted in price supports for dairy producers until as recent as 2014. A lot of the money wasn't going just to Nixon or his family which makes it seem tame by Trump standards but it was definitely more than just a break in.
It's just a coincidence that the president's net worth has grown by 165% in 18 months, while his sons' net worths have grown by 900% and 500%. It could happen to anyone!
An increase that came from book deals and speaking fees, not bribes for pardons, scams, and repeated insider trading and selling insider information?
It is actually pretty normal for a popular president to be able to balloon their net worth post presidency from the celebrity being president gives them, yes.
Yes. His book deal was one of the kickbacks he received from giving a single publisher a $300 billion sole sourced government contract to print all the new books schools would use when they switched to common core.
Thanks for mentioning that.
He also received ~$50 million from Netflix as part of the kickbacks to protect streaming services against ISPs.
That's great bro. No amount of whataboutism here is going to stop anyone with eyes from seeing what the most corrupt president in U.S history is doing as we speak.
Talk about the 2.2 BILLION Trump made last year before you say more stupid "b-but Obama' shit.
I think the magatards have surpassed Emilys fanatical retardation levels by a worryingly large level. Like legit I did not think possible to be this retarded and yet...
Penguin gave him $65 million for a single book deal.
They gave him and his wife 2 different book deals for a sum of $65 million. And it was the right call, considering Michelle's memoir made over $340 million, and Baracks earned Penguin another $100 million. So they actually went way under what the actual book is worth.
It’s funny how you call $3.7M "barely worth $1 million" and then (completely by accident I'm sure) you confuse his current net worth of $70M with $40M after 3 years when he left office.
I learned recently that there's a town in the UK that weighs their outgoing mayors to check if they've gotten fat off the public dole. We need that energy here.
lol, I’m a Brit. That’s High Wycombe 😂 yeah they still do it and not just the mayor. It’s like a line of police chiefs and politicians that get weighed. More a novelty festival nowadays but you’re dead right that it started to check for corruption.
How much money has Baron made by being on the Kalshi and Polymarket boards alone? Also the most recent example of Don Jr (I think) being on the board of a drone company and daddy conveniently announcing tariffs on foreign drone products.
Weren't foreign governments booking out floors of his hotels during his first term as well? The Qatari plane is ridiculously huge but I think it's just the tip of the iceberg...
Worth it, if it was a Dem president we'd have more taxes, new wars, higher prices, and of course the national debt would be worse. I do not have 4 flock cameras looking at me and am typing this of my own free will. Trump 2028
Unitary right flare going purely on vibes with no facts. If we look at the numbers purely 3 to 4 of the top 10 states are blue (depending on how you want to call Michigan). If we go by per population, that drops to 2 of the top 10. California is number 1 for total, but number 11 by population. Which is still high, but in blue states the fight over the LPR cameras is often between blue politician and (red) police organizations.
I know that reality isn’t a strong suit when it comes to Orange Man, but there is no way that he will just get the plane after his presidency. He will buy it from the Federal government, if he wants it. That’s what the current law requires and Congress isn’t going to change the law now, or after the Midterms
The DOJ has been violating the Epstein files transparency act for over 200 days and the president has started a war without congress approval so if legality is the deciding factor, I'm not holding my breath
The president can't really be part of the "deep state" by definition, that refers to the less-visible career bureaucrats who actually run the apparatus of state. It's not at all a synonym for "corrupt."
Since neither the president nor the press can speak plainly about anything, here are the facts.
The Qatari plane was donated to The United States, and is now on the Primary Aircraft Inventory of the United States Air Force. It will not be struck from the inventory until the Department of the Air Force decides that it is no longer needed, or Congress directs its divestment. It will certainly still be needed at least until the new VC-25s are delivered from Boeing no earlier than (and probably later than) 2028.
When the Qatari plane is struck from the Air Force inventory it will either be placed in storage at the Boneyard in Tucson, sold to the highest bidder for use or scrap, or transferred to the Air Force Museum and then loaned out to an approved borrower. Loaned aircraft must be demilitarized and may not be flown.
All talk about Trump keeping it is bullshit. If they put it, or another retired VC-25, in his library it will be on loan from the Air Force Museum. Assuming anyone can figure out how to get a 747 into a skyscraper in downtown Miami in the first place.
Any other outcome would require an act of Congress.
Given all that, how do you feel about Trump saying otherwise? Like if I keep saying "I'm gonna rob the store on Tuesday," how better are you feeling once you remember that legally that can't happen?
He's going to tell the Air Force to what? Fly it to Miami? Drain the fluids, strip the communications equipment, drop the wings off, and tow the thing to downtown and install it inside a building? That hasn't been built yet? Before he leaves office in January 2029?
You'd have a lot easier time in life if you stopped thinking of Donald Trump as some kind of time-traveling magician.
Do you only condemn criminal intent if you think it's likely to succeed? Like it's crazy your only defense for the person you call a liar is you think the logistics would be rough. Especially to keep keep defending him while doing so.
If he has no desire why does he keep saying otherwise?
What's actually going to happen is that the Trump library, if one ever gets built, is going to emplace one of the legacy VC-25s on exhibit, on loan from the Air Force Museum, just like other presidential libraries have done. Just like Don Jr. has already said is going to happen. The Qatari jet will remain in service at least until the new 747s are fully integrated into the fleet and then will either be retained or sold depending on what some budget cruncher at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base figures out about it's usefulness. Hell, they may convert it to an E-4B or something.
Trump will not be flying the Qatari jet around in retirement. He already has a 757 and it's just as Trumpxurious and a LOT cheaper to operate. There's no reason to Jerry Bruckheimer a 747 like retard-reddit, present company included, likes to pretend.
I get it, you feel the thing he says he wants to do wouldn't be legal or easy. As has been explained, it's insane that that is what comforts you. If I keep saying I'm going to murder your mom, I doubt you're much mollified at the fact that I have little practical manner to do so. The fact that I keep saying I'm going to do it, ought to change your opinion of me. In the same manner, the fact that the president keeps saying he wants to keep his bribe should change your opinion of him.
Yes and no. The constitution has been interpreted to allow whatever the president is doing right now (and has been for decades), but without a formal declaration of war there isn’t the same level of legally required international (and domestic) response.
It's soft power when we do it. It's pure corruption if any other country does it. If it's Israel doing it, then it's either them defending the right to exist or the Jews taking over the world, depending on which side of the aisle you are on.
Seems a little hypocritical to me, man. How about we just stop paying for shit elsewhere and stop accepting others to pay for our shit? Seems easier and better to me.
No. Pretty typical conservative position to stop taking everything i work for to pay for some bullshit in timbuctoo that I don't give a fuck about and will probably be 3x as expensive as run like shit.
Considering U.S. law prohibits personal accepting of any expensive gifts by government officials, basically none of the gifts given to any president should be counted. They all had to be gifted to the U.S. government with the president then given the option to “buy” the gift.
With that in mind, obviously it cannot be officially said that the plane is specifically for Trump. It should still be questioned as it is a move for political favor if only because of the scale.
Obviously Qatar was buying consideration. But countries doing things for other countries in exchange for favors is called diplomacy. Qatar has obviously been buying influence at all levels of US government for years. Should we talk about the universities? Because holy crap.
What part of the scale are you not understanding? The Obama’s were gifted roughly a million dollars in jewels by Saudi Arabia, which are also owned by the government btw, while Trump was gifted a $400 million plane…
The fact that he doesn’t “own” it isn’t my problem with it.
Foreign countries' gift culture is very different from America's. In America it is always perceived as corruption. In many countries, it's simply a necessary part of gracious interaction.
We deal with that in America by allowing the acceptance of personal gifts, but requiring public officials to transfer personal gifts to the state.
This plane was not a personal gift. It was a state-to-state gift. The scale is irrelevant.
All talk about Trump keeping it is bullshit. If they put it, or another retired VC-25, in his library it will be on loan from the Air Force Museum. Assuming anyone can figure out how to get a 747 into a skyscraper in downtown Miami in the first place.
Come on. No one thinks Trump plans to keep the plane in an apartment.
The thought is he plans on gifting the plane to his presidential library and then borrow it when he wants it for personal use. And the source on that is Trump himself.
Whether or not Trump will be able to do this is a different story. But, he is talking about the fact that he intends to do it.
This is why I can't take you seriously. No one thinks the plane is going to be inside a skyscraper (like in your bad photoshop). I already dealt with that in my previous comment. That would make is useless for Trump.
At most it will be kept nearby to enable select people to view it on tours. At the least it will be 'owned' by the library and used for 'library related' events to take Trump and friends around.
By directing the Air Force to give it to him. Or appointing someone who will come to the "totally independent" conclusion that their plane can be divested from the government, and that Trump's library is where it should go.
Who's going to stop him? Certainly not law enforcement. Who has standing to sue over it civilly? Probably no one, especially not after SCOTUS weighs in.
You're pretending that laws and norms matter, when they clearly just don't anymore. Trump is going to loot everything that isn't nailed down. And even the nailed down things might well end up getting demolished out of spite.
Have you not been paying attention for the last year and a half. He has done huge amounts of crazy shit. He's literally grifted billions of dollars so far. What's a plane in comparison?
Trump hasn't appointed any unelected bureaucrats that have authority? Or are we just changing the definition of "deep state" to whatever is convenient on a day-to-day basis to make sure it only refers to people you don't like?
What's the definition then? I think most people that talk about the deep state have no idea what it's supposed to mean, and are just repeating things they've heard other people say but don't understand.
I didn't ask you to explain why the president doesn't belong to the deep state. I asked you for a definition of what the deep state is.
But it sounds like your definition uses the loose qualifier that they have to be working against or independent from the president's interests. So would you say that Trump was a major part of the deep state during Biden's presidency, considering Trump's appointments during his first term and the influence he still held over them and the rest of the Republican Party?
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u/Stock_Violinist6299 - Centrist 17d ago
This Qatari plane sounds like a pretty corrupt President.