Qatar’s PM Defends Jet Offer, Says They’ll Withdraw If Illegal

Qatar’s prime minister defended his country’s offer of a luxury jet to President Donald Trump, telling CNN they would not follow through with the gift if it was deemed illegal and insisting it was not an effort to wield undue influence within the US.

“It is government to government. The transaction has nothing to do with personnel, whether it’s on the US side or on the Qatari side,” Qatari prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, told CNN in an interview, asking why the country would seek to buy “influence in the United States.”