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'Planemaxxing': report finds U.S. blew classified cash on fancy and unsafe Trump jet
Vanity, Secrecy, and the Price of Serving One ManThe Plane Was Never the StoryThe basic facts are simple: a $400 million Qatari jet was donated, the government spent hundreds of millions more to retrofit it for Trump, the aircraft was grounded after security measures proved inadequate against a credible threat, and the White House is now calling the mess “PLANEMAXXING.” The reporting matters because it exposes who the state was actually working for: not the public, not Congress, and not even basic operational prudence, but Donald Trump’s appetite for a throne with wings.Trump Made the…
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