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'Anyone buy that?' MS NOW suspects Trump's bizarre Qatari jet answer was a 'cover story'
Trump’s Jet Detour Is a Power Story, Not a Travel StoryThe Real SubjectThe reported issue is not whether Trump took the Qatari-gifted jet home from the NATO summit in Turkey. The issue is how a president can turn a foreign-gifted aircraft, another round of taxpayer retrofit spending, and a vague public explanation into a spectacle that demands everyone else do the interpreting.Trump hyped the plane for weeks, then abruptly sent it to a base in England for troops to inspect while he flew home on the old Air Force One. When pressed, he did not answer the question directly. That is the key fact…
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