Trump Accepted The $400 Million Plane Bribe!
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:24.8 | who appears with him on the bulwark. |
| 0:26.6 | I joined with Andrew Eger, author of Morning Shots, to discuss the formal, I guess, end |
| 0:33.1 | of the deal for the Qatarie airline gift. |
| 0:36.6 | The Pentagon has announced that it is accepting the gift |
| 0:40.4 | from Qatar and President Trump, who was appearing with the president of South Africa to talk about |
| 0:46.9 | allegations of white genocide in the country, had an absolute meltdown when Peter Alexander |
| 0:51.8 | of NBC News asked him about the jet, an epic meltdown by even Trump's |
| 0:57.1 | stares. Anyways, subscribe to the feed. We're going to get into it very quickly. Andrew, |
| 1:02.3 | what did you make of the fact that they weren't shamed into not accepting the gift? |
| 1:06.6 | Well, this was always going to be the thing of it, right? Is yes, the Constitution obviously baldly forbids this sort of thing from happening. |
| 1:15.6 | Yes, you know, the deal as initially laid out was totally baldly corrupt. |
| 1:20.8 | But when it comes right down to it, you know, if Qataris wheel a $400 million plane up to you and and they're like, here it is, and you get in it |
| 1:29.8 | and you go home, the question then becomes like, okay, who's actually going to stop you from doing |
| 1:34.0 | that, right? And are the courts going to stop you? And who has standing to sue over it? Is Congress |
| 1:39.3 | going to stand up and do something about it with these feckless Republican majorities? And it kind of |
| 1:43.4 | seems like the answer to those questions has been no. And so, yes, it looks like we're going to move forward with |
| 1:49.6 | this thing. And there are a million different things. We can talk about all the different ways in which |
| 1:53.7 | it is so insane and so psychotic and just so grisly and silly and wrong. But it looks like, |
| 2:00.6 | it looks like we're going forward with it. |
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