Qatar’s lavish gift for Don: Letters to the Editor — May 20, 2025

The Issue: Qatar’s gift to President Trump of a $400 cardinal pitchy to switch nan existent Air Force One.

The Defense Department should not judge Qatar’s airplane and person it into a statesmanlike Air Force One (“Is Qatar’s outreach a shady Uncle Scam?” Douglas Murray, May 16).

That Qatari pitchy will request to beryllium torn down to nan studs for information clearance, activity that only Boeing’s experts would beryllium qualified to do. But that will hold Boeing’s activity of building 2 brand-new AF1s.

If nan DoD does judge nan airplane successful clip earlier President Trump leaves office, he should not beryllium allowed to support it aft his term.

This bribe is corruption — plain and simple. If Trump is nan billionaire he claims to be, he could bargain nan level for $400 cardinal pinch his ain money aft leaving office.

Bruce Joffe

Piedmont, Calif.

This is thing much than a blatant effort to bribe a US president connected an unheard-of scale.

How hypocritical is this erstwhile he criticized Hillary Clinton for accepting a $425 necklace?

Alan Swartz

Verona, NJ

Leftist media morons person been ragging connected Trump each week complete Qatar’s connection to supply a 747 pitchy to nan US government.

These group relentlessly dishonesty by giving nan belief that Trump has already accepted nan aircraft. Both Qatar and nan US governments are presently analyzing nan legality of specified a transfer. Both are only successful nan “speaking” shape and nary existent craft transportation has yet been made.

Earl Beal

Terre Haute, Ind.

There are evident governmental and information problems pinch Trump accepting nan pitchy Qatar and past keeping it for his statesmanlike room aft his term.

But location person besides been ineligible and ethical problems. First, immoderate sticklers insist Congress must o.k. nan grift, err, gift. Second, immoderate declare location is nary precedent for whether Trump keeps nan pitchy — but that is wrong.

When his word was over, President Grover Cleveland didn’t return individual possession of nan Statue of Liberty and move it to his statesmanlike room successful Caldwell, NJ.

Trump evidently still believes nan level will beryllium his, possibly connected nan mentation that if you show a dishonesty and support repeating it, group will yet travel to judge it.

Mike Barrett

Ashburn, Va.

If Qatar wishes to grant Trump, it should equip 1 aliases much flying hospitals aliases flying oculus clinics to use humanity arsenic a whole, pinch his sanction painted prominently connected them.

Such craft would beryllium a semipermanent measurement of honoring him. It would besides debar immoderate ethical concerns aliases violating nan emoluments clause.

Bruce Couchman

Ottawa, Canada

The Issue: A 70% emergence successful crime successful Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s territory amid her caller absence.

It appears that astatine slightest immoderate of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents are paying attraction to her deficiency of attraction to nan needs of her territory (“Crime soars 70% successful absent AOC’s pcts.” May 18).

While their penetration is gratifying, I uncertainty it will person an effect connected her re-election, aliases connected her position successful her party. Those who voted for her are successful sync pinch her anti-police, anti-Israel and “tax nan rich” marque of socialism.

The truth that she’s a front-runner for 2028 speaks volumes astir nan pathetic authorities of nan party.

Robert Mangi

Garden City

It conscionable doesn’t get immoderate better. There’s a cleanable word here: Schadenfreude.

AOC’s constituents inflicted a mini-monster connected each of america and merit each time of her incumbency.

To those fewer souls who didn’t ballot for her, I consciousness your pain: Now support a stiff precocious articulator successful hopes that your neighbors mightiness yet spot nan correction of their ways.

Mitchell Schwefel

Barnegat, NJ

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