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Donald Trump defended a plan for the United States to accept a Jumbo plane worth $ 400 million from Qatar “for free” after Democrats criticized this step as “corruption in sight.”

In a publication of social media on Sunday, the US President said that the Defense Ministry will receive Boeing 747-8 from the Gulf state to replace the “40-year-old Air Force.”

It was an alternative plane made by Boeing in the United States It was late several years ago.

TrumpIt is scheduled to visit Qatar this week, saying that the plane will be a temporary solution. News reports indicated on Sunday that the plane will remain in the United States and will be donated to the Trump Library Presidential Foundation once the president leaves his post.

In addition to being a potential violation of the Emolumnts condition in the US constitution, this gift is likely to be the largest by a foreign country or an entity of an American president in modern history.

Trump described the move as a “very public and transparent treatment” and accused the Democrats of the desire to pay “the highest dollar” of the plane. “Anyone can do that!”

ABC News was originally mentioned on the proposed gift. Qatar described the report “inaccurate”, but confirmed that “the potential transportation of the plane for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under study.”

“It is still a review by the relevant legal departments, and no decision has been taken,” said Ali Al -Zari, the media attaché at the Washington embassy in Qatar.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

The proposed gift reports of Qatar have been criticized even from some of Trump’s most loyal supporters. The influencer Laura Loomer described the treatment as a “gift” of $ 400 million of jihadists in the claims “and suggested that it would be” a stigma on the supervisor if this is true. “

Norm Eisen, the previous ethics in the White House and Trump’s repeated critic, said this step is “illegal and unconstitutional.”

The age of 747 from Qatar Qatar is more than a decade and one of the largest private aircraft in the world. Trump toured this as he stopped at Palm Beach International Airport-near his home in Mar Lago-in February, according to the New York Times.

Trump is heading to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates this week. The journey has already attracted criticism from activists, after Eric Trump Trump commercial deals Before visiting his father.