BREAKING: Republican Senator Ted Cruz breaks ranks from MAGA and slams the luxury jet bribe from Qatar to Trump — says that it will pose “significant espionage and surveillance problems” if it becomes Air Force One.
This scandal is going nuclear…
“I’m not a fan of Qatar. I think they have a really disturbing pattern of funding theocratic lunatics who want to murder us, funding Hamas and Hezbollah. And that’s a real problem,” Cruz said in an interview with CNBC.
“I also think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems. We’ll see how this issue plays out but I certainly have concerns,” Cruz went on.
Trump intends on upgrading the $400 million jet to serve as Air Force One and then eventually take it with him when he leaves office so that it can be used for his presidential library. It its corruption in its most blatant form and we have no idea what Qatar is expecting in return.
Suffice to say, the Qataris are not giving away this incredibly expensive jet out of the goodness of their hearts. They want to suborn Trump into tilting White House policy in their favor. It’s also entirely possible that the jet is bugged.
Cruz isn’t the only member of Congress concerned about the security risk posed by this debacle.
Democratic Senator Jack Read, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that the plane would “pose immense counterintelligence risks by granting a foreign nation potential access to sensitive systems and communications.”
“It is completely negligent and, as far as I’m concerned, reckless to think that Air Force One where the president is asked to function as our commander in chief in a situation room, making life-or-death decisions, is on a plane given to us by a foreign government with 200 miles of wiring in it,” said Democratic Senator Dick Durbin.
He added that he is “certainly” concerned about the risk of espionage.
“Two hundred miles of wiring in this plane? We’re going to go through every square inch of that to make certain the Qataris or some other government doesn’t have access to the most important decisions made by our president? This is irresponsible,” Durbin added.
The senator also wants MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify before Congress about the approval process for the jet. An AG interested in upholding the law rather than sycophantically serving her boss would have intervened already. It’s of course not a coincidence that Bondi has deep connections to Qatar.
“Remember, she was a paid agent of the Qatari government, a lobbyist, before she became attorney general,” said Durbin.
