Giving Trump $400m Boeing jet was his team's idea not Qatar's, report claims

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The network's sources claim that, shortly after Trump returned to the White House in January, the Pentagon contacted Boeing for an update on the two new jets it is building as replacements for the current presidential plane.
46% : Boeing reportedly supplied Department of Defense officials with the names of its clients around the world.
45% : But Columbia Law School Professor Richard Briffault questioned that assessment when he told NPR that if Trump retains ownership of the plane after leaving office, in spite of his claim that it will ultimately be given to the Department of Defense, "then it's not really a gift to the United States at all" and instead amounts to a "pretty textbook case of a violation of the emoluments clause.
36% : " Trump griped about the age of the current presidential plane repeatedly last week, boarding it at Abu Dhabi International Airport on Friday with the resentful words: "I leave now and get into a 42-year-old Boeing.

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