Rand Paul and Other Wingnuts Against Trump’s $400 Million Gift from Qatar

Kentucky wingnut Senator Rand Paul and others are saying they don’t think Chairman Trump’s acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar is a good idea.

Poodle Paul: “I really haven’t been a big fan, and I wonder if our ability to judge their human rights record would be clouded by the fact of this large gift. I wouldn’t take it. That’s just me,” he added.

Rand Paul condemns Trump accepting a gifted luxury jet from Qatar

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“I’m not flying on a Qatari plane. They support Hamas,” said Florida Sen. Rick Scott, an ardent Trump fluffer and Medicare fraudster. “I don’t know how you make it safe.”

“‘Gosh, let me give you a plane.’ I mean, that seems pretty nice, but they support Hamas, so I don’t know. I don’t know how you make it safe,” Scott continued, declining to say what Trump should do as the decision is up to him. “I don’t want the president of the United States flying on an unsafe plane.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune just doesn’t know what to think about it, but understands Chairman Trump’s impatience with Boeing’s delay of an updated luxury Air Force One.

“I understand his frustration. They’re way behind schedule on delivering the next Air Force One,” Thune told The Hill. “Whether or not this is the right solution … I don’t know.”

Darling Nikki Haley also condemned the idea of accepting a luxury gift.

Nikki Haley slams Trump for accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar as a gift:“Accepting gifts from foreign nations is never a good practice. It threatens intelligence and national security. Especially when that nation supports a terrorist organization…If this were Biden, we would be furious.”

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Others:

“That’s a pretty strange offer,” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said.

“Taking sacks of goodies from people who support Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera, all the rest, that’s not America First,” right-wing host Ben Shapiro said on his podcast, adding, “If you want President Trump to succeed, this kind of skeezy stuff needs to stop.”

“At a minimum, ‘bad idea,’” Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson.

“The plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday.

Confusing RWNJ Laura Loomer:

Newsmax chimed in as well on the subject calling it a bribe from a state sponsor of terrorism.

The Great Orange Buffoon himself wasn’t so keen on Qatar back in his first disastrous term.

Something about stupid does appeal to Trump though.

BREAKING: Donald Trump boards the $400M luxury jet, that the Qatar government "gifted" him – for the first time.

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Fun fact: AG Pam Bondi, who approved Trump’s $400M jet gift from Qatar, was a paid lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115K a month.

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The Hill, NBC