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And we are live. And people are jumping on. Richard, thank you so, so much for joining me for the second time in two weeks. As I think everyone knows, Richard was the... White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush. And he is my go-to person for when we have ethical, legal issues,
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which we have a lot under the Trump administrations. The issue of the day is this plane from Qatar. And I'm just going to say, Richard, that this afternoon my phone has been... ringing and ringing, because I think some of the facts around this plane are not yet clear.
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So it was reported by ABC News that the Qataris were gifting a plane that Trump would use as Air Force One. And And we can get into why that is, because the Boeing is late and got problems delivering the US-made Air Force One. But the idea that was reported was that the Qataris were gifting Trump this plane.

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Suzanne DeRusha's avatar

The United States in my opinion has back slid into being the biggest bully on the planet.

At the rate money is being spiralled to the richest in the country, the phrase “shit hole country” cones to mind.

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📰 NEWS FLASH‼️

TRUMP’S NEW QATARI JET CRASHES INTO MAR-A-LAGO UNDER THE WEIGHT OF HIS OWN HYPOCRISY🛩️

PALM BEACH, FL – In a stunning display of cosmic irony and delicious karma, Donald Trump’s newly acquired, Qatar-gifted Boeing 747-8 concluded its inaugural voyage by nose-diving into the rococo rot of Mar-a-Lago.

According to FAA officials, the jet began to sputter mid-flight as it attempted to compute the cognitive dissonance between Trump’s 2017 statement that Qatar is “a funder of terrorism at a very high level,” and his 2025 TruthSocial post calling the plane “THE BEST GIFT EVER—MAGA!”

Flight data indicates the jet was also carrying hazardous levels of foreign influence, constitutional contempt, and a cargo hold stuffed with unopened federal indictments, which may have compromised its structural integrity.

No deaths were reported—unless one counts the mortal wound inflicted upon the last tattered vestiges of presidential dignity.

Officials declined to comment, but the wreckage is already being cordoned off for conversion into the Trump Presidential Library.

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So it was reported by ABC News that the Qataris were gifting a plane that Trump would use as Air Force One. And And we can get into why that is, because the Boeing is late and got problems delivering the US-made Air Force One. But the idea that was reported was that the Qataris were gifting Trump this plane.