Originally Posted by
ugleeual
the 747-800 is being gifted to the US Government… once gifted he plans on having the DoD use it (as AF1 spare domestically) until the new AF1s are completed. No Government employee (to include him) is allowed to accept a personal gift over $20… that’s why Presidential Libraries are full of displays of expensive gifts given during their days in office…
You're right about the $20 limit, but how does that work with foreign governments spending $13,600,000 at his properties? What happens then?
https://www.citizensforethics.org/re...is-presidency/
How does it work when a country grants trademarks to the president after denying 130 straight applications before he entered office?
https://www.americanprogress.org/art...nterest-china/
How much money did the president make off his crypto schemes? Where did that money come from? Who "donated" it? What are they getting in return?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...flict-interest
Why isn't that "gift", which surely won't have any listening devices or bugs installed on it, staying in the US inventory? Why is the American taxpayer going to spend 1 BILLION DOLLARS turning this 747 into a VC-25A and then it's going to be mothballed at a Trump's library? Is Trump going to be buried with it like a pharaoh?
It's funny because when I had a GPC we were audited over a "suspicious", but completely legit $500 purchase. But apparently the rules have changed?