Sources informed the news site that attorneys from the Department of Justice and the White House counsel’s office have already been called in to handle such a response.
According to reports, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will follow the suggestion and decide that it is OK to take the mega-jet as a gift before transferring it to the Trump library.
Additionally, it will declare that neither the Constitution’s ban on any US government official taking gifts “from any King, Prince, or foreign state” nor any bribery statutes are broken by doing so.
Additional sources David Warrington, Trump’s senior White House attorney, and Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the conclusion that receiving it and transferring it to Trump’s presidential library.
Before the end of his term would be lawful. Both the White House and the DOJ conclude that the present avoids such bribery provisions since it is not contingent on any official behavior.
Additionally, the gift cannot violate the foreign gift law because the jet is being donated to the US Air Force rather than any particular person.
