Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) may have thrown a grenade into the media and Democrats' freakout over the Qatar plane controversy surrounding President Trump.

Why? According to the Senate Armed Services Committee member, negotiations to accept the plane for use as a temporary Air Force One until the new Boeing models arrive actually began under the previous administration.

Mullin appeared with CNN's Jake Tapper and was grilled on whether he had any concerns about Attorney General Pam Bondi's memo endorsing the legality of accepting the luxury jet. He dismissed it as a non-controversy.

“The real question is, Jake, why is this an issue?” Mullin asked. "Could you explain to me why this is a big issue? Because I can't figure it out.”

“The last time I checked, we were okay when France gave us the Statue of Liberty."

Tapper countered that Congress authorized the acceptance of the Statue and promptly played the 'I'm not the one saying it's an issue; it's these others' card. The two argued back and forth on the matter before Mullin dropped what would amount to a bombshell.

So let me get this straight the plane that was a gift from Qatar was actually a conversation that was started a year ago by the Biden administration with the Qataris? You literally can’t make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/LDjs2yR5NK

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 15, 2025

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“What the media isn't telling you and what no one's talking to you about is this same 747 has been in negotiations for a year,” Mullin revealed. “The Biden administration is the one that started these conversations.”

"It didn't start in the Trump administration. Why? Because we need a backup for Air Force One. Because right now, the President of the United States is flying around on a 40-year-old plane and there is no backup for it."

Mullin reiterated his initial point.

"No one is discussing that part. They're discussing that the deal ended with President Trump," the senator continued. "Maybe the media doesn't know."

Mullin added that he might give the media and Tapper a pass for not knowing that information, but "this conversation started with Qatar, with Biden a year ago."

Let's not be so hasty in handing out passes, Senator. Tapper is, after all, the same man who pretended to have zero knowledge of Joe Biden's cognitive decline and only decided to 'expose' it after the fact.

Even if Tapper knew the Qatar plane negotiations were initiated under Biden, he wouldn't write about it until four years later, and only then if there was some sort of profit to be made.

President Trump has adamantly insisted he has the right to accept the gift and use it as a temporary stop-gap plane until Boeing gets their act together.

“Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced to pay hundreds of millions of Dollars when they can get it for FREE from a country that wants to reward us for a job well done,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Free is good for the American taxpayer. 

Mullin contends that the Qatar plane talks began under Biden. Maybe somebody could ask the former President. But it's quite unlikely he'd have any idea about it in the first place. Perhaps they should ask whoever was running the country at the time.

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