BREAKING: Anderson Cooper Torches Trump’s $400 Million “Free” Jet Grift on Live TV
Anderson Cooper just delivered one of the most brutal takedowns of Trump’s corruption yet, and he did it using Trump’s own words.
On Wednesday night’s Anderson Cooper 360, the CNN anchor dismantled Trump’s claim that his new Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 is “free.” Cooper pointed out that taxpayers are footing several hundred million dollars to upgrade the plane to Air Force One standards, and Trump gets to keep it when he leaves office.
“Taxpayers get the bill for a loaner, and the president gets a keeper from Qatar,” Cooper said.
Then came the knockout punch. Cooper rolled the tape of Trump in 2016 attacking Hillary Clinton for accepting a $1 million Qatari donation to the Clinton Foundation. He played Trump in 2015 openly bragging that when he gives politicians money, “when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me.”
Trump knew exactly how this works. He told America himself.
Cooper didn’t stop there. He listed the fake FIFA Peace Prize created just for Trump, the gold clock and solid gold bar from Swiss industry leaders, and the financial disclosures showing how much the Trump family has profited from questionable business ventures during his second term.
“Virtually any country, company, or individual wanting something from this administration has come bearing gifts, literal gifts, golden gifts often, and even the appearance this creates is staggering,” Cooper said.
He contrasted Trump with Jimmy Carter, who put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. Trump, meanwhile, is accepting a $400 million jumbo jet from a foreign government and asking Americans to believe there are no strings attached.
As Cooper put it, Trump is asking the country to “cast aside all the same suspicions that he himself has raised” about every politician not named Donald J. Trump.