Qatar Dangles Prospect For Future Airbus Jet Order
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar that President Donald Trump will use once the Pentagon upgrades it to include “proper security measures and functional-mission requirements,
Washington Examiner associate breaking news editor Peter Cordi predicted that the working class will see the largest impact from President Donald Trump’s recent foreign deals. Cordi detailed Trump’s “really successful week” on Real America’s Voice’s Last Call with Mike Crispi Saturday.
The Qatar-Boeing deal is the latest in a series of high-profile aviation agreements signed during Trump’s four-day Middle East visit. Just a day earlier, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund inked a $4.8 billion agreement with Boeing, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a $10 billion order from a British airline.
An Oklahoma senator claimed during a CNN interview that discussions around the plane dated back to the Biden administration.
Qatar Airways CEO Badr Mohammed Al-Meer has described the decision to select Boeing over Airbus as “a very, very, very, close call.”
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