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BumRushDaShow

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Tue May 13, 2025, 08:16 AM May 2025

New York Post Shreds Major Team Trump Claim About His Motives [View all]

Source: Huff Post

May 13, 2025, 03:16 AM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago


The typically Donald Trump-promoting New York Post joined the chorus of criticism over the president’s Qatari jet controversy as it urged him to “think twice” before accepting a $400 million luxury Boeing 747-8 from the emirate’s ruling family.

Trump, who is in the Middle East this week, has defended the reported imminent gift, which sources told ABC News would be used as Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation when he leaves office.

But the New York Post’s conservative editorial board warned of potential conflicts of interest, stated that Qatar is “famous for seeking to buy influence,” cautioned how the “gift” will be “far from free,” and said “the optics are beyond awful, especially as Congress mulls hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.”


Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-post-donald-trump-criticism_n_6822ea7de4b0993b52bebcc3



Link to EDITORIAL - https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/opinion/no-pres-trump-qatars-palace-in-the-sky-jet-isnt-a-free-gift-and-you-shouldnt-accept-it-as-one/

LOL and 45 was demanding that their Editor take over the WSJ.
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Team Trump is a euphemism bucolic_frolic May 2025 #1
The title had me a bit flummoxed wolfie001 May 2025 #9
How can Trump think "twice" when he has never thought "once"? Ray Bruns May 2025 #2
Think twice? mdbl May 2025 #3
OK, this is important, but... not fooled May 2025 #4
This whole sordid misadventure makes me feel ill. calimary May 2025 #5
Does anyone here really believe . . . AverageOldGuy May 2025 #6
It should be called a 747 EB DENVERPOPS May 2025 #7
What you say is absolutely true... slightlv May 2025 #8
And another world leader DENVERPOPS May 2025 #10
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