Just saying: This is corrupt beyond belief. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/11/t... - ThreadSky

jfallows.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Just saying:

This is corrupt beyond belief.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/11/trump-jumbo-jet-qatar-air-force-one-gift.html

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teresam001.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bugged Force One.

leftcoastgin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Impeach Trump

jfallows.bsky.social•2 days ago

2/2

Or, you could put this the way the NYT has, saying that "Democratic lawmakers and good government groups" were concerned about the "substantial ethical issues."

You went into journalism to give people the best available version of the truth. Not this.

wolfgangbrooks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Staff writing is a jobs program for the upper middle class.

parkstreetunder.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wish you would call out Joe Kahn by name. The buck stops with the editor in chief. You are in effect one of the deans of American journalism -- and a fellow Harvard Crimson alum -- so your naming and shaming has some hope of actually getting through to him.

mudsludge.bsky.social•2 days ago

Apparently the fat check from the NYT is worth ignoring any ethics you had if you had them

pemiller26.bsky.social•1 day ago

The NYT didn’t say lawmakers and groups “were concerned”, as you put it. It said they “expressed outrage.” A significant difference.

drobertsimg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or maybe they could just look at the corruption cases the US government has prosecuted when the recipient was a foreign government official..

https://bsky.app/profile/drobertsimg.bsky.social/post/3low475i3522t

usuarioaleatorio.bsky.social•2 days ago

It reminds me that you can't give water to people waiting to vote, but you can give 1 million dollars.

usuarioaleatorio.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let's just accept, New York Times already did at least 3 profiles on famous white supremacist and not in a negative or critic way, just explaining their ideals. New York Times is a fascist group.

ron-nexteconomy.bsky.social•2 days ago

In the first 100 days, Trump family fortunes rose $3 billion even as his approval fell. Or as the Donald would presumably refer to it - a hell of a deal.

jakeofnotrades.bsky.social•2 days ago

So who or what entity will appear on the title to that jet?

neilsuits.bsky.social•2 days ago

The NYT makes me feel like I’m a specimen in a Petri dish.

intergalacticp.bsky.social•2 days ago

They also used the word “acquire” in the headline. Like Bonnie and Clyde “acquired” money from banks.

pk53.bsky.social•2 days ago

Agree- acquire is to purchase. Is Trump going to “buy” the plane???
Lazy journalists and editors! Suggest the NYT read The Atlantic’s article “How to Fact Check The Atlantic” by Yvonne Rolzhausen.

kenmayo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sounds like the Dems have concerns.

pcrritesgood.bsky.social•2 days ago

The most pathetic and insane part of this is how hard the media is working to pretend this is not a gigantic bribe.

quin664.bsky.social•2 days ago

If the Rumpers say it's fine you can be sure it's a lie. How many time have their reporters been lied to? 50? 100? Thousands? When will they stop pretending that perhaps this time they won't be lying and it will not be bribery. If it were my kid, I would have figured it out a long time ago.

rednecklefty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sir, I'll assert that whoever wrote and edited that NYT puff piece did not go into journalism for the reason you mentioned.

kaffiend75.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just another “both sides” story to the NYT.

We really aren’t far away from “Democrats express disapproval after Trump shoots man on Fifth Avenue”

flamingtwits.bsky.social•2 days ago

If only the Times employed an independent voice that serves as a liaison between readers and the newsroom and has the authority to weigh in on editorial decisions in print or online. A”public editor,” if you will. Oh never mind ….

garykramer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Good writing = S V DO. Clear subjects for accountability, precise verbs for accuracy, specific direct objects for clear consequences. Syntax matters, motherfuckers.

twotenths.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/twotenths.bsky.social/post/3lownnovxmk2y

strategicpants.bsky.social•2 days ago

Speaking as a bureaucrat myself, journalists at some point started communicating like bureaucrats. They should go back to communicating like journalists.

madmacs.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, aren't there rules about this sort of thing. (I think the limit is like $50.

airfryerenthusiast.bsky.social•2 days ago

You're parsing one sentence of like a 4000 word article that is currently the top featured story on the site. I think the implications are plenty clear and the NYT doesn't feel obligated to tell people what to think.

jfallows.bsky.social•2 days ago

They ARE making a choice in framing it.

As a partisan "Democrats say..." (and good-government nerds) difference of opinion.

lemurphy.bsky.social•2 days ago

"(...)done in full compliance with the law" would mean it doesn't happen. It is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. This is such bullshit.

we-are-toast.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think the scales of Lady Justice need some rebalancing.

"In January 2024, Menendez was charged with corruption for promoting the interests of Qatar while receiving various illicit gifts such as cash, gold bars, and a Mercedes-Benz automobile"

demokrator.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s such maddening language, isn’t it? The point of journalism is to print the truth as it’s best understood. This kind of false equivalence reeks of not wanting to lose subscribers.

tonysomo.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Vichy NYT strikes again!

bromowitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

damn them all . . . quisling fawning, not reporting . . . can’t put a heart on that, b.rad

kktheexplorer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cancelled my NYT subscription a while ago because of 💩 like this

bjoernt.bsky.social•1 day ago

All what Trump is doing is for his own benefit…

tgruenewald.bsky.social•2 days ago

They misspelled "jet grift."

furrymom70.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's for when he runs away

strappohughes.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wonder if it will have bedbugs? I’d like the *president* to feel at home.

bluefrommagioh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oingo Boeingo. I've never hoped for structure failure more.

hallijayne.bsky.social•2 days ago

Corrupt and more evidence of Trump's narcissism. Meanwhile, he's cutting food subsidies for the poorest among us, gutting their healthcare, making kid's dolls unaffordable while he flies around the world in style. Honestly, folks. This should be acceptable to any American.

quin664.bsky.social•2 days ago

He is such a sucker for gilded garbage. He is so far gone into dementia that he doesn't even notice that he is being taken for a ride in all senses of that word.

janepor00325520.bsky.social•2 days ago

But, sadly, unsurprising.

digimark.net•2 days ago

Not to be mean, but I'm pretty much at the "I'd believe everything" stage of the Trump regime.

profbobhowarth.bsky.social•2 days ago

Corrupt, and unconstitutional. But Donald Trump cares nothing for our constitution. Twice he has sworn to uphold it. He did not mean it, just more lies from someone who seems like he may have lied most of the time for his whole life.

tomleykis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don't expect anything to be done about it. Maybe @schumer.senate.gov will send a "strongly worded letter?"

rinkytone.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Supreme Court - We granted the president absolute immunity but we didn’t think he would actually break the law.

hightek1.bsky.social•2 days ago

And what do they get in return?

milopryce.bsky.social•2 days ago

Any chance this is the plane he's going to use to run away? If so, let him keep it.

broccolee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let’s hope it crashes with him in it

rickrow.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nothing is corrupt beyond belief when you are talking about Trump.

His interest in suspending habeas corpus; his willingness to ignore court decisions; and his nascent practice of putting unidentified, heavily-armed, masked thugs on the street to intimidate civilians are worse corruption.

charlene411.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/cherylestora.bsky.social/post/3lowhialmq226

bonnielt.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not only the grift, but how secure will it be? I’m predicting bugs everywhere

almendares52.bsky.social•2 days ago

So who is going to call him out on it? The DOJ is his personal law firm.

grmapete.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why is trump poised to accept it when it’s frickin illegal?????? This is such bullsh*t!!

sfurbanist.bsky.social•2 days ago

Every inch of that plane will be bugged, and I hope all the flight instructions and panels are in Arabic, and that factors in at a very critical moment.

jaagibs.bsky.social•2 days ago

The way he's looking he'll never fly in the thing.

we-are-toast.bsky.social•2 days ago

What part of our democracy did he give up for this bribe?

accidentalflyer.bsky.social•2 days ago

Need to point out it's not even "cost free" to US taxpayers. The cost of tearing everything down to make sure the plane is bug-free then install the needed equipments to be qualified as Air Force 1, we're talking about millions and millions.

81horses.bsky.social•2 days ago

Billions. And years. Ask Boeing. They are *already* repurposing two airframes because Trump held a metaphorical gun to their head at the beginning of his first term. May he never set foot on any of these airplanes.

marksquared.bsky.social•2 days ago

But it's ok if you're living in a banana republic

davidakaye.bsky.social•2 days ago

totally. and illuminating.

killiplaw.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bob Menendez and his wife must be so ticked. All they got was a Mercedes and some gold bars.

rheldt.bsky.social•2 days ago

And prison time

mstfromsu.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is clearly a violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause (Art. I, Section 9, Clause 8). In other words, it is *unconstitutional*!
"no Person holding any Office [shall] accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

algocompsynth.bsky.social•2 days ago

It is also a distraction! We need to focus on stopping the crimes against humanity that ICE is committing! ICE is destroying citizens' homes, seizing their cash life savings, and deploying masked thugs with semi-automatic weapons to kidnap people off the streets without due process. 1/2

algocompsynth.bsky.social•2 days ago

And Republicans in Congress are silent about the administration openly violating the Bill of Rights! Forgive me if I can't get excited about a free airplane right now. It's yet another distraction we shouldn't worry about when ICE is conducting pogroms against Latinos and Muslims.

jmarty6263.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s so he will look the other way when Hamas, etal, reattack Israel.

pilotken.bsky.social•2 days ago

In the 1980s we couldn’t buy a $5 sandwich for the Government project leads. Man, DARPA we were so squeaky clean

jonastraxler.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Poised to Accept”
Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s a big fat flying Fuck The Constitution.

broccolee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fuck the Emoluments Clause. And fuck the Constitution.

https://giphy.com/gifs/vevo-cat-fuck-this-that-SqmaAe6x2stZC

5thgenfljane.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, it is.

betsy-cazden.bsky.social•2 days ago

Qatar also says it hasn't made a decision to even offer the plane. In other words, Trump put this story out before it's nailed down -- as he does so many "deals." So he's prepared to accept it -- but Qatar *isn't* actually gifting it, at least not yet.

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