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Eugene

(66,809 posts) Tue May 13, 2025, 09:10 AM May 2025

How Pam Bondi Will Get Round Constitution to Give Trump a Free Flying Palace

Source: The Daily Beast

How Pam Bondi Will Get Round Constitution to Give Trump a Free Flying Palace

Emell Derra Adolphus
Sun, May 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM EDT 2 min read

Attorney General Pam Bondi gave President Donald Trump the green light to accept a $400 million “flying palace” as a gift from Qatar.

ABC News reported that the Qatar royal family is planning to gift Trump a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet ahead of his big trip to the Middle East, where he is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar to secure “economic agreements.”

Sources told ABC that Trump will utilize the jet until just before the end of his presidency, when it will be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.

Although gift exchanges are common between heads of state, the legality of such an arrangement is murky given that the Constitution prohibits federal officials from receiving personal gifts from foreign heads of state without the consent of Congress.

However, sources told ABC that Bondi and Trump’s top White House lawyer, David Warrington, have already smoothed the legal details. ...

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bondi-round-constitution-trump-184210851.html

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With the right loophole and some sleight of hand, Dump's fixer will make any corruption legal.

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How Pam Bondi Will Get Round Constitution to Give Trump a Free Flying Palace (Original Post) Eugene May 2025 OP

Trump and Blondi read the constitution the way WC Fields read the Bible Walleye May 2025 #1

I would not be so damned certain... And it is "around" the Constitutional provisions, NOT "round..." hlthe2b May 2025 #2

There is no way around this corrupt act malaise May 2025 #3

There is no way this will open the door to corruption Johonny May 2025 #4

The key is "personal" gifts. If the plane is accepted by government, and trump doesn't walk away with it after Silent Type May 2025 #5

He'll find a way to grift off of it many a good man May 2025 #6

Walleye

(43,845 posts)

1. Trump and Blondi read the constitution the way WC Fields read the Bible

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 09:13 AM

May 2025

“Just checking for loopholes“

hlthe2b

(112,840 posts)

2. I would not be so damned certain... And it is "around" the Constitutional provisions, NOT "round..."

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 09:17 AM

May 2025

Damn. Are there no editors at the Daily Beast anymore, or was that Yahoo?

malaise

(292,920 posts)

3. There is no way around this corrupt act

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 09:17 AM

May 2025

That is all

Johonny

(25,506 posts)

4. There is no way this will open the door to corruption

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 09:28 AM

May 2025

Throughout the Trump executive branch no way at all. I mean, what worker won't understand why corruption is good for Trump, bad for me. Particularly after he explained you take the gimmie putt. Take it. Take it.

So corruption will remain low as no one dare call it corruption.

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)

5. The key is "personal" gifts. If the plane is accepted by government, and trump doesn't walk away with it after

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 11:15 AM

May 2025

he's finally out of here, I bet it will be deemed legal, even if highly suspect.

trump will likely have to turn it over to National Archives and Records Admin like Obama did with $1.3 M in Saudi jewels gifted to President Obama, First Lady, and their daughters. They cannot keep it legally. trump will have a hard time walking away with a plane that has to be registered as a gift.
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The State Department keeps the registry of gifts. trump will have a hard time hiding a plane, although I’m sure he’ll try.

“The items must be later turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration, or the recipient can pay the market value of the gift and keep it.”

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/12/02/the-king-of-saudi-arabia-gave-over-13m-in-gifts-to-the-obamas-last-year

many a good man

(6,006 posts)

6. He'll find a way to grift off of it

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 01:47 PM

May 2025

Trump can't read or write so there won't be a lot of papers in his presidential library. It will become a major grift operation and this luxury plane would be a major attraction.

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