Jim Jordan doesn't see a problem with Trump’s 'transparent' grift

U.S. President Donald Trump recently made a multi-country trip to the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar — whose government offered the United States a $400 million jet as a gift.

Trump's Democratic critics are saying that it is wildly inappropriate for Trump to accept the jet from Qatar's government. But Trump's defenders, NOTUS' Riley Rogerson reports in an article published on May 16, are insisting that there is nothing wrong with the gift — including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky).

Both Jordan and Comer are arguing that Trump, unlike former President Joe Biden, is trustworthy because he goes for total transparency and doesn't try to hide anything.

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Jordan told NOTUS, "Everything Trump has done has been transparent…. I don't see a concern with the leader of our country accepting a gift from some other head of state or other country that’s with the benefit of the country."

Comer told NOTUS, "If they had given Joe Biden a plane, he would have denied it and would have said I was lying. And you all would have attacked me for accusing him of getting the plane. Don't heads of state get gifts given to them all the time by other heads of state?"

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is making similar Trump/Biden arguments.

Johnson claimed, "The reason that many people refer to the Bidens as 'the Biden crime family' is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains, but in the back rooms, they were trying to conceal it and they repeatedly lied about it and they set up shell companies, and the family was all engaged in getting all on the dole. Whatever President Trump is doing is out in the open. They are not trying to conceal anything."

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But Never Trump conservative Bill Kristol pushed back against Johnson's Trump-is-transparent arguments in an article published by The Bulwark on May 15.

Trump, Kristol wrote, is more "far more dangerous" than President Richard Nixon during the 1970s Watergate era because Trump’s "open corruption and lawlessness" is being normalized flaunted — while Nixon operated in a more "dodgy" fashion.

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Read Riley Rogerson's full NOTUS article at this link.