Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office

Well, he's never going to leave the Oval Office at the end of this term, so the point is kind of moot.

Or make it there at all. The pope was just a warm up. Vance wants that oval office couch.
I think first “term” and “Oval Office” will be renamed, but yes

Even if the plane itself was "free", they are voting to make a $1B gift (the cost to retrofit the plane) from tax money to one guy personally?

Have to pay for this instead of healthcare or housing. Land of the free!
Today's word is corruption!
These guys would allow tax-paid literal harem for Taco if Taco demanded it from these cucks.

isn't any gift received by the president property of the government? or so i gathered from watching the west wing 😆

That's how it used to work.
- Haha, laws, those were the days
So much of our government worked on the idea that nobody would be brazen enough to break convention, and the untested belief that voters would immediately and vehemently reject anyone trying to openly abuse their power.
We now know both of those assumptions were wrong.
- The country was formed when there were like 2 million people in it. We should have thrown everything out and rewritten it decades if not centuries ago.
- I don't think those assumptions were there originally, but there were definitely a ton of them post world war 2.
It was gifted to his presidential library. So no. Only Trump can use it. Pretty fucked up huh?
- But it's going to cost around 1 billion to renovate by our tax dollars.
  Hey Doge! I think you can cut some waste right here!
LOL

Emoluments clause? No? Anyone? Anyone?

Went out the window in 2017.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Technically that right there would make it ok if the house passes the same. But my God, if we're going to use that qualifier to let the president have something from a foreign state did it have to be a fucking 747?
- This vote was against an amendment to a bill that would ban him from keeping it. Not a grant to do so.

I guess it's encouraging that they think he'll ever be leaving office alive.

Or they know the opposite and allow it because of that
- "It's gonna end up going to the person he loves best anyway. Let Putin have it!"
Did anyone say alive?
Trump Pyramid where he gets buried with his jet...
- He can get buried with it up his ass.
The funny thing is that Christians always say "you can't take it with you when you die", so maybe they made a deal with god to get an exception?

Plot twist: he’s not leaving office. Don’t tell me about the 22nd amendment. He’s already in office in violation of the 14th. He’s not dying anytime soon either. Rotten fucks like him always live well into their 90s, fueled by hate. Just look at Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch's age is just insane. His fucking father was a stain on humanity during fucking WWI, and that dude was already in his 30s at the time.
- Your maths does not check out.
Rupert Murdock isn't also fueled by McDonald's.
He'll leave office in a few years (let it be very few), whether walking, dragged, or feet-first.

Lolita Express II.

I think so long as the POTUS is in it, it's the Lolita Express One.
- POTUS
  Paedophile Of The United States

Oh so they all admit it IS A FUCKING BRIBE THEN? GODDAMNIT FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SLIMY FUCKS

"Emolument"? You sound gay and your shit's all retarded

Don't worry scrote! My ex wife's tarded too and she's living a kickass life!

No one could have seen this coming. We’re such a clown show.

Banana republic
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.
- Damn, guess thats what we have been. The fascism is just poured on top.

Trump is the king of leeching off the government. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

then Muck is the prince

Give it to the Air Force so they can test out a few missiles on it.

Preferably with Trump still inside it.

...this evening.

It’s hard to believe the US has come to this. Fucking crazy.

I'm curious to know who is going to pay to keep it airworthy, if DT does leave office? Those things aren't cheap to maintain.

If he leaves office he won't be in a position to grant political favours to friends.

His Trumpcoin scam is one rugpull away from being converted to actual useful money.

Lmao. Hey, republican voters? Are you watching? How much longer can you hold out? He is a crook, lied to you and is now destroying the country. Wake tf up.

That's a white elephant gift.

If he's still around, maintenance on that thing isn't gonna be affordable

The Republicn Congress will probably saddle the US taxpayer with the upgrade and maintenance bill too.

Russia, if you're listening...

MA 117 47

They should force him to repay the money being spent to renovate the plane.

It's a money pit.

What he should do is SAY he spent the money on the airplane but REALLY put the money in his back pocket.

Are there not laws that determine gifts and compensation for the President that would be broken here? And if not, why not?

The people who write the laws are saying they are OK with this. The law doesn't mean much when the corrupt have the pen and paper.
- A lot of what Trump does that he shouldn't be able to, he'd be able to if congress said OK.
  The fact they even bothered to say OK here is kind of surprising given they haven't bothered on other things and just let him do it anyway.
Lol "laws".

Is there really a more corrupt country in the world, we know Russia, Ukraine used to be (maybe still is ), and I'm sure many others that we think it believe to be corrupt, but when really looking at what is going in in America I think they top the cake. Yeah I'm sure they spin it so it has a justified reason but I think that's all smoke and mirrors.

They need to be added to some type of list.

I'll go one further, how about he get buried in it?

Somehow I doubt there will be much of an "after office" for Trump.

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We can hope, but tbh my hope is running in short supply these days.

Lol, they're pretending he'll leave office

So that'll be his coffin then?

Hmmm...

So this will be taxed as a gift right?... Right?

"What emollients clause?"

He's not planning to leave numbskulls.

In normal times, a clause preventing the jet from just being given to the president wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, these are not normal times. Even more unfortunately, because it was just a clause preventing the jet from being given to him after his term ends that got shot down rather than the Republicans straight up voting to give it to him, there is absolutely zero chance MAGA people will see something wrong with this.

Guess next time they will just vote for him to keep the power after leave office.

They show their priorities again and again.

Epstein list?

Trump sending thousands of payments to epstein?

Nope, gotta shut down government to avoid it.

Letting trump keep a plane that Saudi's tricked us into taking cause its more expensive to renovate it than to buy a replacement, but its no big deal cause we're taking away peoples healthcare to pay for it? Urgent issue. MUST VOTE.

“It’s mine, it’s ALL MINE!!!”

Can't take it with ya, have another berder fatso

Watching America move from being a de facto criminal enterprise into a de jure criminal empire is numbing.

He should be allowed to keep it. Just got to pay sticker price for it.

Yeah, fuck the Emoluments Clause.