President-elect Donald Trump continues to make waves on social media.
Since winning the election, he’s used Twitter as his preferred method of communication with the public.
And the left was outraged over one Tweet he sent.
Boeing has a contract with the federal government to replace the Pentagon’s fleet of 747’s.
Included in their deal is the production of – and upgrades for – a new model Air Force One.
Air Force One is described as a “flying fortress” where the President and his team can run the country securely in the event of a disaster.
It also includes living and sleeping quarters as a traveling White House.
But President-elect Donald Trump is not happy with Boeing’s progress.
The new Air Force One is running over budget.
Bloomberg Politics reports on the costs originally earmarked for the new Air Force One planes:
“The Pentagon already is budgeting $3.2 billion for research and development, military construction and acquisition of two of the planes through fiscal 2021, said Kevin Brancato, the lead government contracts analyst for Bloomberg Government. More money is anticipated in the two years after that. Boeing 747-8 planes average about $225 million each, he said, which means most of the money will go to outfitting the planes for presidential use.”
President-elect Trump tweeted that the project was running at $4 billion – which is over budget – and the order should be canceled.
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2016
Politico reported that the President-elect met with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower and expanded on his Tweet:
“Later Tuesday morning, Trump spoke briefly with the assembled media in the lobby of Trump Tower, where he elaborated on his Twitter post decrying Boeing’s Air Force One project.
“The plane is totally out of control. It’s going to be over $4 billion for Air Force One program and I think it’s ridiculous,” he said. “I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money.”
After President-elect Trump pointed out the raw deal taxpayers were getting, Boeing’s stock price tumbled.
Of course, liberal journalists then jumped to the conclusion Trump would now use Twitter to tank or inflate stock prices, and add to his or his children’s vast fortune.
A scheme where Trump/family short a stock, plan a tweet to crash it would be a sure-fire way to cash in. We'd never know if they're doing it https://t.co/NVvInNqFaG
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 6, 2016
But Trump’s spokesman responded saying he’d already sold all of stock holdings shortly after becoming the presumptive Republican nominee in June.
And other conservatives pointed out Boeing has been leeching off the taxpayers through the Export-Import bank (Ex-Im).
The Ex-Im is a federal bank that loans money to foreign companies who buy U.S. exports.
The largest beneficiary of the Ex-Im’s taxpayer subsidies is Boeing, which raked in 68% of the Ex-Im’s long-term guarantees in 2014.
Do you agree with President-elect Trump’s Tweet about canceling the order for the new Air Force One due to cost overruns?
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I’m not qualified to make such gigantic decisions. I can give Trump time. We will know in a year or two where we stand with our support. All these people who prematurely complain do they know better. Do they have all the details. What is going on is the press using the power of ‘NO’ to get attention, or they know Trump is right,but want to cause problems because they didn’t get their way in the elections.
Amazing that this bias` reporter totally ingnored a real crime story !!!!!!! All the ‘Clinton Cash’ questions Hillary refuses to answer
By Peter Schweizer June 13, 2015
‘We need to stop the flow of secret, unaccountable money,” Hillary Clinton said Saturday during her vaunted campaign “do over.”
That she said this without a trace of irony is no real surprise. Ever since the release of “Clinton Cash” — which documented the Clintons’ love of secret and unaccountable money — the couple’s reaction has been to pretend the scandal has nothing to do with them.
Appearing on CNN, Bill Clinton claims that the millions the Clintons made from speeches paid for by foreign individuals and entities who had business before Hillary’s State Department were innocent and coincidental.
“[Hillary] was pretty busy those years,” Clinton said. “I never saw her study a list of my contributors, and I had no idea who was doing business before the State Department.”
Bill added: “No one has ever asked me for anything…I never thought about whether there was any overlap.”
Besides, as Bill explained, in a Bloomberg interview last week, “Has anybody proved that we did anything objectionable? No.”
Well, there you have it. Everything is on the up-and-up. Americans should just move along.
But they can’t. And they won’t. Not until, that is, Hillary Clinton begins explaining her myriad conflicts of interest in granular detail, especially since there are no e-mails or server to corroborate Bill’s claims of her innocence.
Indeed, save for a generic response to a generic question on the topic, Hillary Clinton has yet to answer a single question about “Clinton Cash.”
For example, Hillary hasn’t explained why her State Department approved the transfer of 20% of US uranium to the Russian government — even as her family foundation hauled in $145 million from investors in the deal, and Bill received $500,000 from a Kremlin-backed bank for a speech in Moscow.
Hillary has yet to explain why there was no conflict of interest in allowing top investors in the Keystone XL pipeline to pay her husband $1.8 million to deliver 10 speeches, even as she quietly shepherded an environmental impact study through her State Department that proved largely supportive of the pipeline.
Hillary delivered eight speeches totaling $1.6 million in speaking fees paid for by two of the largest banks tied to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Nor has Hillary explained why she violated the memorandum of understanding she signed with the Obama administration promising to disclose all donors, including the foreign head of the Russian government’s Uranium One, Ian Telfer, who funneled four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation that were never revealed.
Or the 2 million shares of stock foreign mining magnate Stephen Dattels gave the Clinton Foundation, even as Hillary’s State Department allowed “open pit coal mining” in Bangladesh, where Dattels’ Polo Resources had a stake.
As Sunlight Foundation senior fellow Bill Allison told The Post, “It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons.”
Still, Bill Clinton assures us there’s nothing to see here.
Hillary supporters arrive on Roosevelt Island.Photo: AP
Thankfully, so far investigative reporters aren’t listening. Indeed, in the wake of “Clinton Cash”’s publication, as Hillary’s silence has grown, so, too, has the number of reporters building on and and expanding the book’s findings.
Bloomberg and the Washington Post, for example, drilled down and discovered an additional 1,100 hidden foreign Clinton Foundation donations. Since the revelation, the Foundation has only released 24 of the secret foreign donors. When will Americans see the remaining 1,076 names? Hillary hasn’t said.
And thanks to the Huffington Post, we now know that in 2014 and 2015, Hillary delivered eight speeches totaling $1.6 million in speaking fees paid for by two of the largest banks tied to the Keystone XL pipeline.
That’s in addition to the $1.8 million Bill bagged for the 10 Keystone investor-funded speeches he delivered during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State.
Perhaps this helps explain Hillary’s reticence over the last few years to express opposition to the pipeline, much to environmentalists’ chagrin.
We now know 181 Clinton Foundation donors lobbied Hillary’s State Department; that the Clintons’ family foundation received millions from Qatar, as well as donations from FIFA, the soccer organization now enmeshed in a bribery and corruption scandal of global proportions; that the Clintons have a secret “pass-through” company, WJC, LLC.; that Hillary’s State Department “approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation,” according to the International Business Times analysis.
It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons.
– Sunlight Foundation senior fellow Bill Allison
On and on it goes. There have been enough post-book revelations to fill a second volume, or a third.
The surge in new revelations is an encouraging reinvigoration of investigative journalism, one that is refreshingly responsive to the public’s hunger for greater transparency and accountability from elected leaders.
As Bob Woodward recently put it, “You should insist that the sleeping giant, which is both the country and the media, wake up. The result could be, if you are persistent, that we have a kind of ‘Unrestricted Investigative Warfare’ as the news organizations, the giants, the little people, left, right and center compete to follow the money and explain its corruptions and ramifications.”
To all of these revelations, the Clinton response has been to ignore, deflect, or try to discredit me. George Stephanopoulos tried to suggest I was partisan (how’d that work out?) while sympathizers have been reduced to arguing that well, it’s not technically illegal.
But even as Hillary Clinton tries to wipe the slate clean and start her campaign over, these questions will dog her from now until election. She can’t dodge them forever.
Much of defense is over the top with regard to costs. I could cite my own experience that our company repowered a ship for $10 million dollars and yet the Coast Guard figured that an ice breaker repowering (same horsepower) would have cost them at least $100 million. Why 10 times as much? No weapons on this breaker, hull was good but their new engines would’ve been over the top. Could it be that government is not a good steward of our dollars?