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Katherine Faulders

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Senior reporter covering all things Washington & investigations for @ABC News. @UVA. Signal: KFaulders.54 // [email protected]

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ABC EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is poised to accept a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. It’s to be used as Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump library by January 2029. Perhaps the biggest foreign gift ever. DOJ insists it’s legal, not bribery, not violation of

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Sources told ABC News that AG Pam Bondi and Trump's top White House lawyer David Warrington concluded it would be "legally permissible" for the donation of the aircraft to be conditioned on transferring its ownership to Trump's presidential library before the end of his term.

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Confirming ABC News, the Trump government is poised to accept a gift of a Qatari royal family-owned luxury jet for use as a new AF1 that will then be donated to a Trump library nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/…

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would not comment on President Donald Trump preparing to receive a luxury jet from Qatar because he hasn’t seen the "details." "I'm not going to comment on it," Johnson said when asked by ABC News on Monday, adding, "I haven't seen all the

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Sen. Rand Paul says Trump should not accept the $400 million jet from Qatar “I don’t think it looks good or smells good”

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NEW — Deputy AG Todd Blanche met with Senate Rules Committee staff this afternoon amid controversy over White House naming him acting Librarian of Congress. Wouldn’t answer my q about how he expects issues over who is in charge of the library to be resolved.

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"And in a culture that respects shame, there should be people that are shamed. And that's a fact. That's the way things work. And so that's how I believe the job operates," Martin told me. x.com/KFaulders/stat…

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NEW: Democrat Adam Schiff sends letter to DOD inspector general asking for details on Qatari plane deal abcnews.go.com/Politics/democ…

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Trump suggests that the Qatar jet will cost taxpayers zero dollars. But according to our exclusive reporting this weekend, the US Air Force will modify the plane to meet specifications required to transport a president and when the plane is transferred to the presidential

Trump suggests that the Qatar jet will cost taxpayers zero dollars. 

But according to our exclusive reporting this weekend, the US Air Force will modify the plane to meet specifications required to transport a president and when the plane is transferred to the presidential
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After a White House request, a Tulsi Gabbard adviser asked for an intelligence community assessment on whether a Venezuelan gang is committing crimes in the US at the direction of the Venezuelan government. The assessment, made in February, did not support that idea. 1/

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BREAKING: Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to a statement from his office. abcnews.link/DuEpd4U

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The story of how the Trump administration decided that it would accept a free luxury Boeing 747-8 from Qatar to serve as Air Force One involved weeks of secret coordination between Washington and Doha w/Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman, Adam Rasgon nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/…

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“I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” South Africa’s President Ramaphosa says to President Trump.

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NEW: Trump’s new head of Social Security says he had to Google the job when he was offered it: “What the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?,” per audio obtained by ABC News More: abcnews.go.com/US/new-head-so…