BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
That $400 million dollar jet is a gift that keeps on giving: ABC News is being blasted by U.S. President Donald Trump for reporting the free jet Qatar has donated to the President is legal. The president justified it by saying it was a gift to the United States Air Force and Department of Defense.
“Now I see they are at it again, and I again give these SleazeBags fair warning,” Trump wrote in his weekend post. “The wonderful country of Qatar, after agreeing to invest more than 1.4 Trillion Dollars in the United States of America, deserves much better than Misleading (Fake!) News. Everyone, including their lawyers, has been told that ABC must not say that Qatar is giving ME a FREE Boeing 747 Airplane, because they are not.”
Trump said his lawyers have requested ABC stop calling the jet “free,” arguing the network “fully knows and understands, this highly respected country is donating the plane to the United States Air Force/ Defense Department, AND NOT TO ME.”
The issue is the President is using his position of authority to threaten other news organizations. And while countries can give the United States extravagant gifts, such as the Statue of Liberty. We doubt the president is going to install this jet in a public space for people to walk through on a tour.
But he should strongly consider it, looking at the terrible optics on this decision.
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