Dem Vows to Probe Qatar, Trump’s ‘Flying Grift’

Rep. Ritchie Torres is demanding a probe into reports that the Trump administration will accept a luxury jet, apparently a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet, worth approximately $400 million from Qatar to serve as Air Force One, as well as Trump’s personal plane after he leaves office, Axios reported on Sunday.

The New York Democrat wrote to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the acting Department of Defense inspector general, and the Office of Government Ethics requesting an investigation of the gift.

“With an estimated value of $400 million, the aerial palace would constitute the most valuable gift ever conferred on a president by a foreign government,” the congressman stated in the letter.

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