Former Vice President Mike Pence has warned that the United States is at risk of being affected by Qatar after Donald Trump accepted a $ 400 million aircraft
Former Vice President Mike Pence has it criticized Donald Trump To accept a qatar $ 400 million jet, emphasizing the “real constitutional problems” in the President’s decision.
During an interview with “Meet The Press” by NBC, PENCE expressed his concerns about Qatar’s History of support for terrorist states such as Al Qaeda and Hamas. “The Constitution prohibits public officials accepting a present from a foreign state,” he said firmly. Pence emphasized that the United States “must remember who is Qatar” and said that President Trump’s decision to accept a $ 100 million military aircraft from the nation raises “real constitutional issues”.
He said: “In order to have the President in Saudi Arabia, who questioned the World War of World War and the nation’s description and the interventionist of the nation, I thought it was a service for generations of North -Americans who brought the uniform … Particularly giving this speech to Saudi Arabia where 15 of 19/11 came from.”
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Continued to say that designating the plane as a New Air Force One “It is incoherent with our safety, with our intelligence needs,” said Pence, “my hope is that the President recovers.”
He suggested that Qatar should withdraw the gift and, on the other hand, assign $ 400 million to the North -American infrastructure or other entities that can improve the country, reports, reports the mirror that.
“Others have observed, there are deep problems: the potential for intelligence collection, the need to ensure that the President of the United States is safe and safe as he travels around the world,” said Pence later.
According to some aviation experts who spoke with NBC, turning the ray into a new air force, it could take years and cost more than $ 1 billion.
This is not the first time that Pence has disagreed openly with the increasingly controversial presidential decisions of Trump. On January 6, 2021 – The day Congress certified the election victory of 2020 Joe Biden – Trump publicly pressed Pence in front of a multitude of aggressive magic supporters to stop the process and annul the results so that it could remain in power, citing claims without the basis of electoral fraud.
Pence was put on the ground and refused. The crowd was quickly transformed into an enraged crowd, stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC, and demanded that the then President of the Vice President be hung.
Despite his close relationship with Trump since leaving the post, Pence continues to entrust the Trump -pence Administration. Pence, who previously served as a congressman and governor of Indiana, ran against Trump for the GOP’s presidency in 2024, but retired from the race in 2023 after not achieving traction.
In the same interview, Pence also criticized the president’s inconsistent rates and some foreign policy decisions. “The initial reciprocal rates he presented would be the largest peace tax rise over the North -American people in the history of this country,” he said.
Trump struck strong rates for the largest trade in the United States in early April, aimed at China and an island in Australian territory inhabited exclusively by penguins.
Shortly afterwards, the President paused for most of these rates, a movement that Vice President Pence said he was “happy” to witness.