{"id":40318,"date":"2025-05-20T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40318"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:53:24","slug":"trumps-qatar-gift-jet-claim-falls-apart-as-insiders-blow-up-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40318","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Qatar \u2018Gift Jet\u2019 Claim Falls Apart as Insiders Blow Up His Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/trump-qtar-jet-claim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"178\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Donald Trump has claimed Qatar offered him a luxury Boeing 747 as a free \u201cgift\u201d \u2014 but people directly involved say that\u2019s not what happened at all, CNN reports. According to four sources familiar w\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyboulder.com\/trumps-qatar-gift-jet-claim-falls-apart-as-insiders-blow-up-his-story\/\">Trump\u2019s Qatar \u2018Gift Jet\u2019 Claim Falls Apart as Insiders Blow Up His Story<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>so they lied?  imagine that&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to another source, the Pentagon approached Qatar only after the White House made clear it supported the idea. Witkoff also helped initiate the contact, the official added.<br>Early conversations weren\u2019t even about buying \u2014 they were about leasing.<br>So while Trump told the public the jet was a spontaneous gift, sources say his administration was actively hunting for one and made the first move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has claimed Qatar offered him a luxury Boeing 747 as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[465,1601,1102],"class_list":["post-40318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-airplanes","tag-qatar","tag-tfg","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40321,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40318\/revisions\/40321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}