The White House continues to deny that the proposed gift of a $400 million bespoke jumbo jet for President Donald Trump’s has anything to do with the man who would benefit most from the transaction.
During a Monday press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was questioned on whether the tricked-out aircraft currently owned by a member of Qatar’s ruling al-Thani family could be checked for listening devices or other security concerns and retrofitted to presidential standards. The jet’s use as a luxury transport comes as construction proceeds on two long-delayed aircraft to be used as Air Force One
