#Reed: You have signed a contract with a company to reconfigure the #Qatari aircraft. What is the price of that contract?
#Hegseth: That cannot be revealed in this setting.
Reed: Why? This is the appropriation committee of the #UnitedStates senate. We appropriate the money that you will spend
Graphics: What it will take to transform the #Qatari jet into #AirForceOne
#af1 #Trump #bribe
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5406188/qatar-gift-plane-trump-air-force-one-overhaul-explained
"The nation of #Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism on a very high level. And in the wake of that conference, nations came together and spoke to me about confronting Qatar over its behavior. So we had a decision to make: Do we take the easy road or do we take a hard but necessary action."
Sure, making friends with the #Qatari sure is the hard way and stopping their funding would have been the easy one—in #DonaldTrump's world
After years of frustration w Boeing’s inability to deliver the 2 authorized #AirForce One replacements during his #presidency, #Trump just wants the damned airplane because it’s such an irresistible #luxury & symbol of #power. But the reality is that #Qatari jet can’t ever be upgraded to meet the mandated requirement for Air Force One that it should be able to repel a missile or drone attack. So forget it being anything other than a gift for the president’s retirement. https://archive.is/yo7k8#selection-2403.0-2403.479
Trump's #Qatari 747 is a flying #security disaster • The Register
#Trump told reporters it would be "stupid" not to accept #Qatar ‘s gesture. The plane is expected to be used as a temporary #AirForceOne , with ownership transferring to his presidential library foundation after his term
Equally alarming, security experts warn that retrofitting a foreign-owned aircraft to meet presidential standards would be massively expensive, time-consuming, and potentially disruptive
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/presidents_trump_747_qatar/
#FOX: Do you think it would've made a difference here if the president hasn't said anything about the #Qatari plane? Meaning if it just came in, the jet got flown to the #Pentagon, and then we heard about it when we heard about it?
#BRETBAIER: I don't think this president cares that much
#Trump tells an #ABC News reporter who presses him on ethical questions raised by accepting the nearly half-billion-dollar #Qatari luxury jet for free that she should be “embarrassed” for asking the question. He calls her “ABC fake news” & repeatedly bashes the network.
Trump says he could reject #Qatar’s offer of the free jetliner or simply say thanks for the gift. He then invokes a golf analogy suggesting that following rules when one doesn’t have to is foolish.
'Earlier on Sunday, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter, ABC reported that the #Trump administration was girding itself to accept a luxury #Boeing 747-8, a jumbo jet from the #Qatari royals that was estimated to be worth about $400m and which has been described as a “flying palace”.
Trump would then use the 13-year-old plane as the new #AirForceOne [....].'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/trump-accept-luxury-plane-gift-qatar
NfL
..and guaranteed to be preloaded with all manner of hidden espionage/surveillance equipment. When it comes to knowing what's up with #Trump, the #Qatari government will be a step ahead of everybody else, even before #DNI #TulsiGabbard.
The "gift" that keeps giving.
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...#LarryEllison, the #Oracle founder and one of the richest people in the world, along with #SeanCombs Capital (yup). There’s #VyCapital, the #UAE-based venture capital firm, and something called #QTetris Holdings LLC, whose directors seem to be part of the #Qatari government. #Binance, the global crypto giant which recently paid a $4.3 billion fine to the #US government for facilitating money laundering by terrorist groups...
#IDF says #Israel ‘exploring’ #Hamas #ceasefire deal announcement but continuing #Rafah ‘operational’ actions
#DanielHagari statement suggests #MilitaryOffensive still being prepared after militant group has told mediators it is accepting #Qatari-#Egyptian proposal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/06/israel-gaza-hamas-ceasefire-updates
#IsraelHamasWar #Palestine #OPT #Israel
#Netanyahu's cabinet decided on Sun to shut down #AlJazeera …in #Israel for as long as the #war in #Gaza continues, on the grounds the #Qatari TV network threatens #NationalSecurity.
Al Jazeera rejected accusations that it harmed Israel's #security as a "dangerous & ridiculous lie" that puts its #journalists at risk & said it reserved the right to "pursue every #legal step"
The network is funded by the #Qatar govt & has been critical of Israel's #military op in Gaza.…
and developers: REMEMBER THAT "AI" ALSO PROMISES TO MAKE DEVELOPERS EXPENDABLE
#AMPTP along with every #Saudi & #Qatari tech cartel putting money into "AI" will make it impossible for software developers to form #labor #unions with claims that it is not really labor what they do if they're using "AI"
that's the whole fucking point of the tech layoffs.
it's not that the industry doesn't need the workers. they need to create FUD to stop unionization in the tech industries... especially MEDIA
CET 
