Amy Goodman
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Gift or Grift? Trump Under Fire over Qatar's Plan to Give Him $400M "Flying Palace"
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We speak with Robert Weissman, co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, about President Donald Trump's "corrupt deal" to accept a $400 million jumbo luxury jet from the royal family of Qatar — possibly the most valuable such gift a foreign government has ever given. Under the plan, the Boeing 747 known as the "flying palace" would be retrofitted for use as Air Force One, then donated to Trump's presidential library at the end of his term in order to allow him continued use of the jet even after he leaves office. "The first Trump administration was the most corrupt in American history by far. What's going on now is literally orders of magnitude worse," says Weissman.
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