Qatar’s proposed gift of a $400 million luxury jet to the United States for a potential use for Air Force One “raises more questions than I think it’s worth” and poses a potential conflict of interest for President Donald Trump, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. 

“There are a lot of ways this could be arranged, but I think what sent up signals that people were concerned about was that it was going to be temporarily part of the government, and then it was going to the president’s library when the president retires,” the Kentucky Republican said in an interview on ABC News’ “This Week.”

Those issues, though, “could be corrected,” and there is likely a “perfectly legal way” to accept the jet, but as for now, the questions about the jet are overshadowing Trump’s successes in the Middle East, and it gives the “appearance of a conflict of interest.”

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