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Ex-US deputy envoy: Qatar airplane gift controversy overblown
AlArabiya English
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5/15/2025
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But Ellie, overshadowing Donald Trump's visit is the controversy over the gift of a luxury
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plane from Qatar, with some Republicans expressing concern and critics saying
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this could violate constitutional gift rules and that could amount to foreign influence.
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What do you make of this? I think I think it's a whole lot of
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creating something out of nothing. Leanne, I'll tell you why, because first of all,
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this airplane, even though they're trying to present this as something that's been given to
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the president of the United States, is actually going to go to the Department of Defense.
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And at that point, the Department of Defense would apparently pick the airplane apart and
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retrofit it and do whatever they need to do to secure it and make it possible for use by the
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president. So I think I think what it really indicates, Leanne, is perhaps a hesitation on
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the part of the American public about the relationship with Qatar.
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No wonder what roughly happened between the nation and ban conservative Bret ŃŠ²ŃŠ· happy and
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those two themselves from different states. And that's really an opportunity for the
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Government who are having because of the flight that has beenanting away from the
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woh originally met. So there's a limitation on the which I expect to avoid
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because the part of the channel is running through the nƄ, that's the lanz signal I think
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and I think on the name of the airlines, you can use almost the end of what I εκٹ
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