Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, a progressive consumer rights advocacy group, said in a statement emailed to Newsweek : "Trump’s plan to accept a luxury plane from Qatar is blatantly unconstitutional, a textbook violation of the emoluments clause.
Matt McDermott, a Democratic pollster and strategist, wrote in an X post on Sunday: “A foreign regime gifting a jet to a former president. It’s bribery in broad daylight.”
Travis Akers, retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer and military families advocate, wrote on X: “This is corruption in its rawest form.”
Senator Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and vocal Trump critic, echoed similar sentiments, writing on X that given the clause, “[it] seems pretty clear that a $400 million ‘air palace’ from a foreign emir qualifies. The corruption is brazen.”
Last month, Schiff called for an investigation into whether Trump and his administration engaged in insider trading amid the president’s tariffs policy rollout and subsequent pauses that led to the stock market shooting up
While President Barack Obama was in office, two Kings of Saudi Arabia - King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and King Salman - gave the President and his family $1.3 million in jewelry.
In 2011, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud gave First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters $300,000 worth of jewelry.
In 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama received a jewelry set from the former King that was valued at $560,000.
Finally, in 2015, King Salman gave President Obama a gold-plated silver horse sculpture that was valued at over half a million dollars.
The media and the demoRATS never commented about that !
