House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) has rushed to Donald Trump's defense over concerns about a $400 million jet that the government of Qatar wants to gift to the president for his use while in office and beyond.
In an interview with NOTUS, the far-right Jordan was joined by House Oversight Committee chair James Comer in insisting that there is nothing suspicious at all about Trump taking possession of the jet that has been described as a "palace in the sky" while at the same time defending their pursuit of Hunter Biden who held no position in the U.S. government.
Speaking with Riley Rogerson, Comer blew off concerns the president is being manipulated with a glib, "Everything Trump has done has been transparent,” and Jordan, an ardent Trump defender in his own right agreed.
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With Comer adding, “If they had given Joe Biden a plane, he would have denied it and would have said I was lying. And you all would have attacked me for accusing him of getting the plane," Jordan offered, "Don’t heads of state get gifts given to them all the time by other heads of state?”
Skipping over plans for the jet to become part of the Trump library after the president leaves office, Jordan added, "I don’t see a concern with the leader of our country accepting a gift from some other head of state or other country that’s with the benefit of the country.”
Pressed on the disposition of the plane after Trump is out of office, the Ohio Republican replied, "It would be the library; it wouldn’t be to President Trump personally.”
“The reason that many people refer to the Bidens as ‘the Biden crime family’ is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains, but in the back rooms, they were trying to conceal it and they repeatedly lied about it and they set up shell companies, and the family was all engaged in getting all on the dole,” House Speaker Mike Johnson explained in a separate interview. "Whatever President Trump is doing is out in the open. They are not trying to conceal anything.”
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