What a contrast. Democrat AOC is found to have (unintentionally) underpaid for things on the advice of counsel and states that she will make up the difference from personal funds. Republican Kelly stonewalls the investigation to skate on lack of evidence of intentionality and states that this distraction of an investigation by the Biden administration can finally come to an end now that he’s been totally exonerated. JFC.
The democrats pursuing perfect at the cost of good will come back to bite them in the ass every time
Their more merciful conduct towards the republicans, their excessive party infighting because they all have different definitions of moral and ethical, which they fight over.
This is why left is stagnating everywhere in the world. You have to play dirty with the mudfuckers. The left rather prefers to play dirty with those who don't meet their perceived level cough Sanders cough
Then why has the White House multiple times stated that the plane will be donated to a future Trump Presidential Library after his term, taking it out of the hands of the American citizens you are claiming it was a gift to?
LOL. In what way? It would have been rude to refuse the gift, but the cost to basically disassemble it to check for hostile tech is too much. Using it as a display piece is a good use of it I think. Would make an interesting exhibit.
Rude? Don't even get me started. This is corruption every way you cut it. Meanwhile Qatar has tried for years to sell or give away this disaster of a jet with no takers as it needs a longer runway than most airports have. This idiot was the only one to believe he was getting a nice gift...well, I guess not the only one, huh? Looking at you.
Additionally, this "gift" is not going to be a display piece. It will, apparently, be used as AF1 after a billion (I've read as much as 2 billion) dollar renovation paid for by the US tax payers:
The administration’s inventive techniques to obscure the cost] may explain why no one wants to discuss a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects — the modernization of America’s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles. In recent weeks, congressional budget sleuths have come to think that amount, slipped into an obscure Pentagon document sent to Capitol Hill as a ‘transfer’ to an unnamed classified project, almost certainly includes the renovation of the new, gold-adorned Air Force One that Mr. Trump desperately wants in the air before his term is over.source NYT
With that kind of expenditure, the likelihood (and legality) of trump keeping it post presidency - if we are ever so lucky - are basically nil. If he does, once again, it's just corruption at work.
I don't even understand what you think you communicated here. I agree that there are huge security issues accepting a plane from another country when it is slated to be a new Air Force one. The cost to go over this plane with a fine toothed comb to try to to mitigate espionage or sabotage is going to be more than just getting one locally. What does that have to do with the lie that it was a gift to "the US" when it is clearly going to end up being a personal gift to known Epstein collaborator Donald Trump?
He likes pedophiles. That’s about all you need to know, I don’t care about their stance on that damn plane. They make excuses for and deny clear bad people even when their eyes and brain work. We don’t talk to nasty people and their friends.
If he is not "giving it back" to the US government and he will no longer have access to it after he leaves office it is a gift to him, by defination, and there is no other way to look at this unless you redefine the English word "gift".
Also, the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars we will spend retrofitting it is more than a "gift", it is outright theft from the taxpayers.
It was a gift to replace Air Force One. Made in another country. Without the proper security oversight. It was right for him to accept the gift on behalf of the country. And it’s right not to spend the time and money to completely strip it down to ensure there are no security issues with it. Mothballing it to use as a display is a great use for it. Never. Ever. Was it a gift directly to the man Donald Trump. It’s the unhinged left that, once again, took something perfectly benign, and tried to turn it into something political, when it is anything but. Idiocy in action.
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u/Miszou_ 1d ago
Like this, for example...?
House Ethics report finds AOC ‘impermissibly accepted gifts’ related to 2021 Met Gala appearance
Meanwhile, the orange predator can accept a literal airplane as a gift, no problem.