House Democrats have launched an investigation into President Donald Trump after Qatar donated a $400 million jet to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Democrats indicated that they will open an investigation into Trump’s acceptance of the plane.
They claim that Trump will be investigated on the grounds that it might not be legal for Trump to accept the jet, even on behalf of the Defense Department.
Unsurprising, the campaign is being led by the usual anti-Trump Democrats.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, led his panel in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House counsel David Warrington on Thursday.
Raskin is asking for a reported legal memo she wrote arguing that the gift was legal.
The Democrats are hoping to frame the donation as a personal gift to Trump, which would not be legal.
“Any legal memo purporting to make such a claim would obviously fly in the face of the text of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which explicitly prohibits the President from accepting any ‘present [or] Emolument… of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State’ unless he has ‘the Consent of Congress,'” the letter read.
But Trump wasn’t accepting the gift for himself.
Technically, he was accepting it for the country as a whole.
Many have compared it to France gifting the Statue of Liberty to the United States, which certainly wasn’t unconstitutional.
Nevertheless, Democrats went all in on their accusations, claiming that the “gift” was actually a “bribe.”
“President Trump’s statements expressing displeasure with delays in the delivery of his new Boeing aircraft to serve as Air Force One and the timing of this ‘gift’ suggest that President Trump or a member of his Administration may have improperly solicited this ‘nice gesture’ from the Qatari government,” the Democrats said.
“The fact that, according to President Trump, the plane would not remain in service to the United States but would rather be donated to his presidential library after his term concludes further raises the possibility that this ‘nice gesture’ is intended as a bribe to Donald Trump.”
I’m sure they’ll end up impeaching him over it, because of course they will.
Never mind that their guy, former President Joe Biden, reportedly extorted every foreign nation he could for the better part of 15 years for money that went directly into his pocket or the pockets of his kids and other family members.
Like the great Rush Limbaugh always said, if you want to know what the other side is doing, just look at what they are accusing Republicans of.
In this case, they’ve managed to muddy the waters enough to make it look bad, even if it isn’t.
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