{"id":42295,"date":"2025-05-14T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42295"},"modified":"2025-05-14T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:21:53","slug":"hillary-clinton-slammed-for-accusing-trump-of-pay-for-play-over-qatars-luxury-jet-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42295","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Slammed for Accusing Trump of Pay-for-Play over Qatar\u2019s Luxury Jet Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/14\/hillary-clinton-slammed-for-accusing-trump-of-pay-for-play-over-qatars-luxury-jet-gift\/\"><br><\/a>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was criticized over comments she made accusing President Donald Trump of pay-for-play regarding reports that Qatar is giving the Trump administration a luxury Boeing 747 jet free of charge, to temporarily replace Air Force One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cNo one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return,\u201d Clinton wrote in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/1922691279676121544\">post<\/a>&nbsp;on X. \u201cBe serious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Clinton\u2019s post comes after \u201csources familiar with the proposed arrangement\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump\/story?id=121680511\">told<\/a>&nbsp;ABC News that the Trump administration reportedly is in talks \u201cto accept\u201d the luxury jet, which will \u201cinitially be transferred to the United States Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Prior to Trump leaving office in 2029, ownership of the luxury jet, which has been described as \u201ca flying palace,\u201d will be transferred over to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The plane will initially be transferred to the United States Air Force, which will modify the 13-year-old aircraft to meet the U.S. military specifications required for any aircraft used to transport the president of the United States, multiple sources familiar with the proposed arrangement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The plane will then be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation no later than Jan. 1, 2029, and any costs relating to its transfer will be paid for by the U.S. Air Force, the sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In a post on Truth Social, Trump previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/11\/trump-confirms-qatar-giving-u-s-luxury-boeing-jet-free-charge\/\">suggested<\/a>&nbsp;that the Trump administration is preparing to accept the luxury Boeing jet from Qatar as a \u201cGIFT, FREE OF CHARGE,\u201d adding that the \u201cvery public and transparent transaction\u201d bothers Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2015\/06\/03\/21-new-clinton-cash-revelations-that-have-imperiled-hillary-clintons-campaign\/\">reported<\/a>, in his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Clinton-Cash-Foreign-Governments-Businesses\/dp\/0062369288\">book<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich<\/em>, Peter Schweizer detailed \u201cexplosive revelations about Clinton\u2019s tenure as Sec. of State and the influx of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign sources into the Clinton Foundation\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Yet as media outlets across the ideological spectrum have confirmed and verified the book\u2019s explosive revelations about Clinton\u2019s tenure as Sec. of State and the influx of hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign sources into the Clinton Foundation, the nation has learned much it did not know. Subsequent reporting by national news outlets has expanded on the book\u2019s findings using its investigative methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Several outlets such as the&nbsp;<em>New York Times,&nbsp;<\/em>Huffington Post, and&nbsp;<em>New York Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;released \u201c<em>Clinton Cash<\/em>-related revelations\u201d since Schweizer\u2019s book was released, such as: how the Clinton\u2019s had \u201cBagged at Least $3.4 Million for 18 Speeches Funded by Keystone Pipeline Banks\u201d or how the \u201cClinton Foundation \u2018Strong-Armed\u2019 Charity Watchdog Group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In response to Clinton\u2019s post, several people took to social media to point out that the Clinton Foundation had accepted millions of dollars in donations from countries such as Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cCry me a river @HillaryClinton,\u201d Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) wrote in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">post<\/a>&nbsp;on X. \u201cTell that to the mega-donors, including Qatar, who gave hundreds of millions of $$ to the Clinton Foundation. Didn\u2019t seem to bother you then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWhat did Qatar want from you?\u201d Jerry Dunleavy, a chief investigative correspondent with Just The News,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1922717336429015069\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in a post showing a screenshot from a Reuters article in which it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had confirmed that it \u201caccepted a $1 million gift from Qatar\u201d while Clinton had served as Secretary of State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cOh you would know how it works wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mboyle1\/status\/1922769709901955505\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in a post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cNobody donates millions to the Clinton Foundation without expecting something in return,\u201d another person&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kjgillenwater\/status\/1922708412648865951\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cBe serious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">While reports have surfaced regarding the Trump administration in talks to accept the luxury jet from Qatar, Ali Al-Ansari, Qatar\u2019s Media Attach\u00e9 to the U.S., issued a statement claiming that the reports were \u201cinaccurate\u201d and added that the \u201cpossible transfer\u201d of a jet to the U.S. was \u201cunder consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cReports that a jet is being gift by Qatar to the United States government during the upcoming visit of President Trump are inaccurate,\u201d Al-Ansari said in his statement. \u201cThe possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration between Qatar\u2019s Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense, but the matter remains under review by the respective legal departments, and no decision has been made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/14\/hillary-clinton-slammed-for-accusing-trump-of-pay-for-play-over-qatars-luxury-jet-gift\/\">breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was criticized over comments she made accusing President Donald Trump of pay-for-play regarding reports that Qatar is giving the Trump administration a luxury Boeing 747 jet free of charge, to temporarily replace Air Force One. \u201cNo one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6925,33284,23319,1230],"class_list":["post-42295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-luxury-jet","tag-qatar","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42297,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42295\/revisions\/42297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}