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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : The government of Qatar had a surprise for President Trump on his recent visit to the Middle East.
71% : But it's not just Democrats and the media who are questioning Trump accepting such a gift.
68% : The huge, hundreds of billions of dollars investment deal that President Trump announced in Saudi Arabia is something everyone can celebrate.
62% : So how can a country that is so opposed to America's interests and has so blatantly refused to do what Trump has asked in the past be regarded as an ally? And such a good ally that the president of the USA can safely accept the gift of a plane from them?
58% : The country has only a few hundred thousand citizens, who are waited on by foreign nationals who effectively work as slave labor.
51% : Edan Alexander, 21, was freed by the Qatari-funded group Hamas as a gesture to Trump.
41% : As even a Trump loyalist like Steve Bannon said this week in an interview with podcaster Winston Marshall in Washington, DC, "Let's be blunt, Qatari money's flowing through here like crazy." Yet, as Bannon also recalled, during Trump's first term, it was the Qataris who were the people in the region who refused to do what Trump wanted.
38% : But it was the Qataris who absolutely refused to do what Trump wanted.
32% : Much of the media has tried to overshadow the trip by focusing on the Qatari "gift" to Trump of a new $400 billion jet to replace the allegedly jaded Air Force One.

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