“It is a bribe”: Maga media stars Bash Trump's gift reported in Qatar aircraft gift

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“Untenable.” “It's a bribe.” “Such a stain” for the administration.

Some of President Donald Trump's festivalest supporters are among the loudest critics of his plan to accept a jet from Qatar for use as Air Force One.

During a rare break from the cheerleading, which typed Maga media, some commentators use their platforms to urge Trump to change his opinion about the extremely unusual gift. Others encourage Trump voters to think about how they would react if a democratic president excluded the same plan.

“I think if we changed the names on Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, we would all freak out on the right,” said the co -founder of Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, on Monday in his podcast.

Shapiro also combined the potential catarian dealings with other reports about “influence”, such as Trump's cryptocurrency profineration.

“The policy of administration is too important for this type of activities,” said Shapiro, emphasizing that he wants Trump to be successful. “President Trump promised to dismiss the swamp. In fact, this is not the swamp.”

Some commentators and social media stars oriented by Trump repeat the president's topics of conversation on the luxury jet, including his persistence that only “stupid people” would reject such a gift. Some Maga media distracts the criticism by sowing doubts about the reporting on the controversy in the media.

However, a striking number of Trump boosters sounds almost as outraged as the democratic legislators who say that it is deeply unethical and possibly illegal to accept the plane.

Many of these right critics, such as Laura Loomer, reported on their objections to Qatar's relationship with the militant group Hamas.

High -ranking members of Hamas have long been in the catar capital Doha, although Katar reports reported in November to rule out the Hamas officials.

Loomer criticized Trump's potential jet deal on Sunday and Monday by writing a number of anti-Qatar posts on X. “And I say that as someone who would take a ball for Trump. I'm so disappointed.”

Mark Levin, moderator of Fox News, announced her contribution and wrote: “Ditto”.

Most of the conservative criticism is currently in social media rooms and not in the television programs that Trump enjoys. The jet controversy was treated very easily via Fox News, the country's dominant right-wing television station. The main story on the Fox website on the matter on Monday had the title “Trump tears off the ABC reporter because he asked about the acceptance of Luxusjet from Qatar” as if ABC was the problem.

But the moderator of “Fox & Friends” Brian Kilmeade asked Karoline Leavitt's press spokeswoman for the White House on Monday morning.

Leavitt positioned it as a transaction to the government to government, which would be carried out “in full with the law”, and is looking for that Trump's presidential library will take possession of the aircraft shortly before he left to ensure that he can still use it.

The “Fox & Friends” host then asked Leavitt: “If you give us something like this, do you want something in return?” The press spokesman said no because Trump “only works with the interest of the American public”.

Kilmeade then continued and asked Leavitt about Mother's Day.

Other conservative media numbers seem to be less inclined to continue.

“This is not a gift” by Qatar, it is “a bribe,” said Batya Hungarian-Sargon, who works for the Maga movement on CNN and other channels on Monday afternoon.

The editor of National Review, Andrew McCarthy, wrote on Monday that the assumption of the aircraft was “not to be justified”, and argues that “the president and his flacks show that they do not capture the concepts of constitutional obligation and conflicts of interest”. He quoted the “Trump Family Crypto Venture” as another example.

The radio presenter Erick Erickson, who, like the National Review, has often criticized a conservative perspective, has not broken down his condemnation of the potential jet gift.

In his Monday show, Erickson argued that Qatar was not a US ally (although the US government does not agree), and pointed out that Attorney General Pam Bondi, who reported reported, was previously a paid lobbyist for Qatar.

“I think she later opens Donald Trump for legal difficulties,” said Erickson.

On X later a day, Erickson found that “even many Trump supporters were not enthusiastic about the gift of the Qatar aircraft” when the first reports appeared on Sunday.

“Now,” he wrote and suggested to flood bots with pro-trump propaganda X, “Many small reports with which I have never interacted, flood my timeline who insist that it is a great idea.”