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FLASHBACK: Dem critical of Trump's Qatari jet gift rode camel in expenses-paid 2021 trip to Gulf emirate

Republicans are attacking congressional Dems who traveled to Qatar for a double standard with their criticism of President Donald Trump accepting a jet from the emirate's royal family.


FLASHBACK: Dem critical of Trump's Qatari jet gift rode camel in expenses-paid 2021 trip to Gulf emirate

At the time, Swalwell was a prominent member of the House Intelligence Committee, which he was later removed from after it was discovered he allegedly had a romantic tryst with a Chinese Communist Party spy, among other concerns related to his judgment on national security. 

In addition to Swalwell and Gallego, Reps. Lou Correa, D-Calif., Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., and Lisa McClain, R-Mich., were part of the American delegation on the trip.

In response to the criticism from Republicans over his alleged hypocrisy, a spokesperson for Gallego shot back at the notion that the 2021 trip was anywhere near the same as Trump's acceptance of the roughly $400 million plane from the Qatari royal family. 

"If you think traveling on a bipartisan congressional delegation and visiting U.S. troops is the same as corruptly accepting a $400 million plane, then I have beachfront property in Arizona to sell you," Gallego communications director Jacques Petit told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reached out to Swalwell's office for comment as well, but did not hear back.

Trump shot back at criticisms over his planned acceptance of the Qatari gift, which the administration was given to use in place of Air Force One. Trump has been pushing to upgrade Air Force One, but the process that was initiated in 2018 has repeatedly been delayed.

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