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Trump's acceptance of Qatar jet gift is 'definition of corruption', senator says
Chris Murphy says Trump strategically visited Gulf states ‘willing to pay him off’ as backlash rises against luxury offer(snip)
But the proposal enraged even close allies of the president, some calling it the opposite of Trump’s promise to drain the swamp – and “a stain on the administration”.
Trump lashed out at critics on his Truth Social network on Saturday, claiming the gift was to the US and not personally for him.
Murphy told NBC that was not true. “The plane is not a gift to the American people,” he said. “It is going directly to Donald Trump.
“That library will take a decade to build, and so once he leaves the White House, until the library is built, he gets to use that plane to fly around all of his billionaire friends while his policies result in millions of Americans losing their healthcare and having to pay higher costs.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-qatar-jet-gift-chris-murphy