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Hillary’s Latest Attempt To ‘Get Trump’ Backfires
Trending Politics ^ | 5/14/2025 | Cullen McCue

Posted on 05/15/2025 10:14:08 AM PDT by Signalman

Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was on the receiving end of an embarrassing fact check when she attempted to attack President Donald Trump over his trip to Qatar on Wednesday.

In an X post, Clinton suggested that Trump was being blackmailed by Qatar after the oil-rich Persian Gulf nation offered a luxury plane valued at $400 million as a gift to the United States. The Department of Defense is expected to retrofit the Boeing 747-8 luxury jet to be used as Air Force One.

Democrats have attempted to claim the plane was offered to President Trump personally, which is not the case. “So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday.

Nevertheless, Democrats have attempted to turn the story into a scandal, albeit to little effect. Clinton joined in on the outrage cycle by suggesting Trump was being blackmailed, stating, “No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.”

The post soon went viral for the wrong reasons, however, as internet sleuths pointed out that the Clinton Foundation once accepted a $1 million from Qatar while Hillary was serving as U.S. Secretary of State. The gift was accepted even though Clinton vowed to let the department review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments, Reuters reported at the time.

Qatari officials pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of former President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband, and sought to meet the former U.S. president in person the following year to present him the check, according to an email from a foundation official to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta.

The email was among the thousands from Podesta’s account that were leaked by WikiLeaks down the stretch of the 2016 presidential election.

As part of his first official overseas trip since winning re-election back in November, Trump visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar in order to secure multi-billion-dollar investments in U.S. companies. Saudi Arabia pledged to increase its U.S. investments by $600 billion, while Qatar doubled that amount by announcing a $1.2 trillion investment during Trump’s visit on Wednesday.

Within the agreement are stipulations that Qatar Airways, the Middle East’s premier airline travel service, will purchase $96 billion worth of 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X airplanes with GE Aerospace engines. A statement of intent signals that another $38 billion in U.S.-made defense goods may be purchased to fortify Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base and fill other maritime security needs.

“This historic agreement will support 154,000 U.S. jobs annually, totaling over 1 million jobs in the United States during the course of production and delivery of this deal,” a White House overview of the deal states.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canckles; clinton; hillary; hitlery; qatar; trendingpolitics

1 posted on 05/15/2025 10:14:08 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

When will she learn to just STFU?


2 posted on 05/15/2025 10:15:52 AM PDT by sgt_lau (No one loves Mexico as much as the people who refuse to live there.)
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To: sgt_lau

“..When will she learn to just STFU?...”

When she takes the final dirt nap...which can’t happen soon enough.
Then, poor old Satan himself is gonna have to listen to that thing mouthing off for eternity...talk about punishment...LOL


3 posted on 05/15/2025 10:19:19 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: sgt_lau

hopefully, never


4 posted on 05/15/2025 10:19:49 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Signalman

She did a lot worse than that! Did not Huma report that Hillary refused to meet with someone, he made a large contribution to her slush fund, er, foundation, and then she took the meeting? Pretty freaking blatant.


5 posted on 05/15/2025 10:22:05 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: Signalman

Smartest woman in the world/s


6 posted on 05/15/2025 10:32:20 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Signalman

Can anyone post from Austin Powes. Why won’t you die meme


7 posted on 05/15/2025 10:33:25 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: sgt_lau
When will she learn to just STFU?

Never. She can’t help herself.

8 posted on 05/15/2025 10:40:16 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Signalman

Recall it was Hitlery who kissed Arafat on the lips rather than the cursory “hello kiss” on the cheeks.


9 posted on 05/15/2025 10:41:46 AM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Signalman

The art of the deal making American industry great again. Kudos, Trump.

Decades ago I sized the 747 Nacelle for the General Electric Cf6-80c2 jet engine on the drafting board. It was just another night at work for a make-it-happen kind of guy, lol. It powered AIR Force One for a time. It is a wonder I wasn’t sucked into an inlet early on fixing comms on a lit-off Phantom hot pad.

I’m absolutely positive there are those of this generation eager to step up! Let’s turn them loose.


10 posted on 05/15/2025 11:01:12 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: Signalman

Hillary, I sure wish you would come out to the farm again. There are some new toys, one even uses electric power!


11 posted on 05/15/2025 11:01:51 AM PDT by kawhill ("Ain't gonna drink it? You tell me don't be like you, but you offer me a beer. Well which is it?")
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To: Signalman
Put "Your honor" at the end of that and we've got a winner:
“No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.”

United States v. Clinton, 2026

12 posted on 05/15/2025 11:02:21 AM PDT by nicollo (Trump beat the cheat! )
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To: sgt_lau

Bitter, jealous, ugly old hag!


13 posted on 05/15/2025 11:07:46 AM PDT by rejoicing
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To: Signalman

“The Department of Defense is expected to retrofit the Boeing 747-8 luxury jet to be used as Air Force One.”

The government civilian workforce needs to be kept very far away from this endeavor. My experience with them includes milkers and saboteurs.


14 posted on 05/15/2025 11:14:43 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: OftheOhio

L3 Harris will do the retrofit.


15 posted on 05/15/2025 11:26:17 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Signalman

Internet sleuths pointed out that the Clinton Foundation once accepted a $1 million from Qatar while Hillary was serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

She’s a female Biden 100%.


16 posted on 05/15/2025 11:56:36 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

That’s not all. Look at the recent talks with Iran.

Bill Clinton and CIA Gave Iranians Blueprint for Nuclear Bomb
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614979/posts

Iran tried to buy centrifuges from the company in Ohio I worked for back in 1990-1991 timeframe.


17 posted on 05/15/2025 12:07:48 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: OftheOhio

Must be team work the two of them Bill Clinton gave North Korea a nuclear reactor for umm lights $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Hillary sold 20% of our uranium to another country
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Thanks for the added info.


18 posted on 05/15/2025 12:33:27 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Signalman

Is that blackmail or is it a bribe? Or does it depend on what the definition of “is” is?


19 posted on 05/15/2025 9:17:30 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Signalman

Cankles’ X posts haven’t been deleted by now? Strange.


20 posted on 05/16/2025 2:40:02 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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