Sean Hannity appeared to spoon-feed President Donald Trump further excuses for his wanting to just accept Qatar’s free Air Force One substitute in a dialog that aired Tuesday. (Watch the video beneath.)
Aboard the present Air Drive One, the Fox News host doled out the speaking factors as he and the president mentioned the problematic deal, which might see the $400 million jumbo jet turned over to the longer term Trump library afterward. The association has been questioned even by Republicans. However Trump and the host dug in.
Hannity arrange the section by accusing individuals on the left of harping on the problem and figuring out nothing about U.S.-Qatar relations. Regardless of Trump’s “slew of latest accomplishments, groundbreaking diplomacy, the legacy state-run media mob nonetheless managed to search out their new obsession,” Hannity mentioned.
Quick-forward to their dialog. Trump dwelled on a yet-to-be-fulfilled Air Drive One take care of Boeing. He complained that the present presidential airplane is much less spectacular and far smaller than the plane for ruling leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
“Some individuals say, oh, you shouldn’t settle for items for the nation,” Trump mentioned. “My perspective is, why wouldn’t I settle for a present? We’re giving to everyone else, why wouldn’t I settle for a present? As a result of it’s going to be a few years, I believe, earlier than the Boeings are completed — and they are going to be fantastic after they’re completed — however that’s a very long time.”
“Isn’t it a part of your argument how the USA has paid untold billions and trillions of {dollars} securing each facet of the world?” Hannity requested.
“I mentioned, we’ve secured that a part of the world for a few years,” Trump replied. “So if someone makes a present, I’m not getting — I get nothing, I get to fly it like another president would.”
“So the U.S. has type of given them items. It’s known as nationwide protection and safety,” Hannity mentioned, failing to notice within the second that the airplane would then belong to the Trump library.
“We give plenty of items. We give too many items to be sincere with you,” Trump answered. “We give items to defend nations that wouldn’t even exist, many nations wouldn’t even exist. Everywhere in the world, nations wouldn’t even exist. However I believed it was a ravishing gesture. Now, there are those who say we shouldn’t be accepting items within the Protection Division, and I’d say solely a silly particular person would say that. Why wouldn’t we do this? And so it helps us out as a result of we may have a comparatively new airplane as a substitute of getting 40-year-old planes. These planes are 40 years outdated, and that’s not consultant of our nation.”
