JD Vance Trashes ‘Fake Story’ About Qatari Air Force Facility in Idaho

Vice President JD Vance called reporting about a Qatari Air Force facility being built on an American airbase in Idaho a “fake story” during a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News, just two days after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made an announcement about the facility on Friday.

“Today, we’re announcing a letter of acceptance in building a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho,” declared Hegseth at a press conference also featuring his Qatari counterpart, Minister of Defense Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani.

“We’re glad to welcome you here. We’re grateful for the strong partnership that we have, the way you support our troops at Al Udeid,” added Hegseth, who also revealed that “The location will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training, increase lethality, interoperability. It’s just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, Your Excellency, that you can count on us.”

Maria Bartiromo asked Vance about the story on Sunday:

BARTIROMO: What is the function of this Qatar facility? People are wondering, is this an airbase? What is Qatar going to be developing in Idaho?

VANCE: Yeah, I saw some reporting about this, Maria. I actually talked to the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, this morning. This is largely a fake story. We continue to have with countries that we work with, we have relationships where sometimes their pilots work on our bases, sometimes that we train together, sometimes we work together in other ways. The reporting that somehow there’s going to be a Qatari base on United States soil, that’s just not true. We are continuing to work with a number of our Arab friends to ensure that we are able to enforce this peace, but we’re not going to let a foreign country have an actual base on American soil. So there’s a bit of misreporting on that, as there often is, as you know, Maria.

Watch above via Fox News.