The Free Press Bludgeons Trump Over ‘Disgraceful’ Qatari Plane Gift: Making Hunter Biden Look Like ‘Small Potatoes’

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The Free Press bludgeoned President Donald Trump over his intention of accepting a $400 million luxury aircraft from Qatar in a new editorial comparing Hunter Biden’s exploits favorably to Trump’s.

“It feels like a lifetime ago when the Republican Party was in high dudgeon over President Joe Biden’s son Hunter,” observed the publication’s editors under the headline “Trump’s Disgraceful ‘Palace in the Sky.’”

“The Hunter Biden affair really was a scandal. But these days, it seems like small potatoes,” it continued before taking issue with not just Sunday’s reporting on the plane that seems destined to soon serve as Air Force One, but the Trump family’s financial capitalization on its patriarch’s presidency, making note of a golf resort deal struck with the Qataris, a hotel deal in Dubai, and a private club opening up in Georgetown.

“The Qatari plane is not an exception but the rule for the second Trump administration so far. Both foreign friends and foes are now treating this as a pay to play presidency. Why else would Iran dangle a potential trillion-dollar economic opening in the early stages of nuclear talks?” asked The Free Press rhetorically. “This is precisely the kind of self-dealing in the executive branch that Congress is supposed to check and balance, according to our Constitution. But the Republican Party, so outraged over Hunter Biden’s corruption, has been mute. And the Democrats, for the most part, have been too busy screaming about every other Trump tweet and policy action to focus on the scandal in plain sight.”

“Five months ago it looked like Hunter Biden’s saga was a cautionary tale. Today it appears to be an ominous precedent,” it concluded.