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Trump regime raids nuclear safety budget to spruce up corrupt "gift" jet from Qatar

Link is to Maddow.

From The Hill - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just found nearly a billion dollars — $934 million to be exact — hidden deep in the Pentagon couch cushions. That money was supposed to fund Sentinel, a $77.7 billion modernization project for America’s aging nuclear missile system. Instead, it’s being rerouted to a classified project.

But here’s what we know about that classified project, thanks to reporting from The New York Times: part of it is funding a personal, Qatar-backed Air Force One project for President Trump.

Yes, you heard that right. Remember that Boeing 747-8 plane that the Qatari royal family donated to Trump earlier this year, well, it’s now being retrofitted for the commander-in-chief. The Secretary of the Air Force estimates the job will cost “less than $400 million,” but aviation experts and engineers say that number is optimistic at best.

NBC News reported that the actual cost could climb north of $1 billion — possibly more — especially since the aircraft needs to be stripped nearly to the studs to install encrypted communications, harden defenses, and protect against cyber and physical threats.

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by Anonymousreply 10July 29, 2025 6:35 PM

This kind of corruption is a huge problem in places like Russia and China. Xi is constantly firing generals by the handful over embezzlement and other corrupt acts. He's quite intent on modernizing the military, but the corruption in the culture is difficult to take on after generations of normalcy. Trump and Hegseth are destroying our military readiness and national security by introducing and normalizing this type of corruption. This is why Russian equipment is shitty and broken.

by Anonymousreply 1July 29, 2025 1:57 PM

Its COMPLETE grift because the Jet might be ready when President Trump ends his term and then it reverts to his presidential library, so to Trump himself, and will never be used as Air Force 1 or 2. Ever. So trump, if he lives, will be flying in a billion dollar fake Air Force 1. And the Republican Congress is fine with this.

by Anonymousreply 2July 29, 2025 2:02 PM

R2 The party of wasteful spending. They won't spend UNLESS it's wasteful.

by Anonymousreply 3July 29, 2025 2:26 PM

It makes no sense whatsoever. How long is Trump going to live. And that billion dollar plane is owned by the Trump library which doesn't exist and many never exist? What is the point?

by Anonymousreply 4July 29, 2025 2:32 PM

Why are we shocked by this!!

by Anonymousreply 5July 29, 2025 2:35 PM

If a Democrat wins in 2028, the first order of business needs to be confiscating that wretched plane. If it’s filled with American tech and can’t be returned to the Qataris, then blow it up.

by Anonymousreply 6July 29, 2025 2:38 PM

R4 to prove how amazing he is

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by Anonymousreply 8July 29, 2025 3:08 PM

R2 exactly.

by Anonymousreply 9July 29, 2025 5:14 PM

The president is considered newsworthy. Imagine that, r8.

by Anonymousreply 10July 29, 2025 6:35 PM
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