Trump’s $108 MILLION Luxury Jet Deal EXPOSED...

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Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian dig into reports that the Department of Homeland Security, in the closing days of Kristi Noem's tenure as Secretary, agreed to pay $108 million for a converted Boeing 737 luxury jet with two bedrooms, marble showers, a standup bar and a table covered in manta ray skin, all supposedly for deportation flights. According to the reporting discussed on the show, that price was at least $18 million more than the same aircraft reportedly sold for just months earlier. The hosts walk through how the purchase appears to have sidestepped normal competitive bidding by invoking FAR 6.302-2, the federal procurement exception that lets agencies skip full and open competition when delay would seriously injure the government. They highlight that the seller, Daedalus Aviation, was a sole-source, single-offer vendor, and that its chairman, William A. Walters III, gave $10,000 to a PAC tied to Noem and leads companies that reportedly received more than $900 mil