MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas breaks down an explosive turn of events as Trump ally Laura Loomer publicly blasts Trump for accepting a corrupt corrupt gift from Qatar—a luxury jet valued at roughly $400 million. Thanks to Hiya Health! Go to hiyahealth.com/MEIDAS and get your kids the full-body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the controversy around Trump accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar?
One of Donald Trump's top supporters is speaking out now against him after it was announced that Donald Trump has accepted a $400 million 747 jet from Qatar as a direct gift to Donald Trump. Not only that, and Trump says he's going to use the new Qatar plane as his Air Force One. It has gold-plated walls, gold this, gold that, golden beds.
but the way it is being gifted to him, Trump is going to get to keep it after he leaves the presidency because they're saying it's also going to be a gift for his presidential library, his hypothetical library, which basically means the plane becomes his and his family's. This is the most blatant corruption in plain view. Add to that the fact that the Attorney General, Pam Bondi,
was previously a consultant for Cutter, making about $115,000 per month. Add to that the fact that Cutter was the group or the country as part of a group that bailed out Kushner when his building 666 building, interesting numbers, in Manhattan was about to go bankrupt during the first Trump administration. And by the way, Do you hear Donald Trump talking bad about any Middle East countries?
We know Trump is talking crap about Canada, about our allies in Europe. But when it comes to Saudi Arabia, when it comes to Qatar, when it comes to the United Arab Emirates, Donald Trump doesn't have a negative thing to say about them.
Add to that the fact that Donald Trump will be taking a trip to the Middle East, meeting with all of these countries whose sovereign wealth funds are directly invested in Donald Trump and Trump's family businesses. Add to that the fact that Trump's kids...
recently held a conference with all of these Middle East sovereign wealth funds, where they told the funds how you do business with Mar-a-Lago. They called it the Mar-a-Lago economy, how foreign sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East can inject money directly into the Trump family. I kid you not. They held an actual conference that dealt with that.
Let me just read for you what Laura Loomer, one of Trump's top advisors, is saying about Trump doing this deal. Then let's go through the facts and let's unpack this. So fact number one, undisputed, Trump is accepting this gift from Qatar, $400 million, gold plate and airplane. So while Americans can't afford homes as prices are going up,
as Donald Trump manipulates the markets with on and off again trade wars. This is what Trump is making deals for himself. Laura Loomer says, so not only will the president of the United States be flying around on a $400 million jet paid for by Cutter,
But don't forget, our own United States Attorney General Pam Blondie, that's what she calls her, was once a registered foreign lobbyist on behalf of Qatar. Blondie was compensated $115,000 per month by Qatar. Qatar has given over $1.8 billion to Hamas over the years. That's an incredible amount of influence for Qatar, a country that harbors
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Chapter 2: How is the gift of the Qatar jet linked to corruption allegations?
As Jared Kushner's father-in-law, Donald Trump, was running for president at the time, the Kushners were pitching Qatari investors to help bail out the building.
And just weeks after his father, Charles, reportedly failed to reach a deal with Cutter's minister of finance, Jared Kushner, in his capacity as a senior advisor to Donald Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Cutter's by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner company's property at 666 Fifth Avenue. So that's the timeline there. So there are deep roots here.
I want to also share with you some of these comments from people who are reviewing the story at the New York Post. I mean, the New York Post is a right-wing paper. So the commenters usually on New York Post stories are Trump and MAGA or Trump and MAGA adjacent. I looked at the story that they published on this where they talked about the gold-plated walls,
And you get things like this, enjoy, you earned it, MAGA trust but verify, wired up from the enemy prime to spy, preloaded with listening devices, and apparently illegal, we have no business accepting this gift, buy him his own damn plane, but not a hand-me-down rigged with listening devices. Wow, imagine what we had to give up to receive a gift of this magnitude. Doe sure is great. Yay, America.
Never, ever would he fly on such a plane. People don't even believe this story is true. Never would he ever fly on such a plane. The security issues are just insurmountable. I wouldn't trust them. Meanwhile, in the U.S., people are starving, hoarding, screaming, shooting, but good to know that this is what Donald Trump is focused on. Other Trump supporters just can't believe this.
Anyone who believes this story, I have a bridge to sell you. Fake news, fake news. And there you have it. Now, here is Donald Trump's press secretary, chief propagandist. When she was asked about Trump's trips that he's about to take to the Middle East, she got very defensive and she's like, how dare you ever make decisions accusations that Donald Trump is in quid pro quos.
He's just going to the Middle East to say hello to them. There's nothing to see here. How dare you make such accusations? Here, play this clip.
You noted he is a successful businessman. Do you know if the president has any plans to meet with any of the folks involved with any of the family businesses over there or see any of the sites that are going to be
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