Who pays for Drumpf's use of Air Force One, the world's biggest biz jet(s).

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Who pays for Drumpf's use of Air Force One, the world's biggest biz jet(s).

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If he's on official business, that's one thing. If he's doing campaign rallys, like his celebration of Juneteenth in Tulsa next week, who pays for that? Certainly not him. The RNC? I know there has been discussion of officials using government planes, and other items, without paying. (Like Mike Pompeo using his staff to pick up cleaning... At least he's no longer Kansas' problem.) Some supposedly made restitution.

And then we had the President of Wichita State University called on the carpet to fight for HIS job after cancelling a video speech by Ivanka Drumpf at the university's semi-separate tech school's graduation. https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-go ... 36826.html It seems the Kochs (oil) and Carneys (Pizza Hut founders) were upset. They have contributed a lot to the school. The recorded video was allowed to run at the end of the online commencement.

Note: The team's name, Shockers, was given way back when wheat was bundled into shocks before being tossed into a threshing machine. Shocks could sit for some time before the threshing crew brought their machine in to get the grain out of each stalk. Before that, I suppose there was the "threshing floor".

But I digress, as usual.
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The campaign is supposed to reimburse the government for the use of the plane.
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I believe it is at a a heavily discounted rate and not a full reimbursement of the costs; this has pretty much been the same for administrations going back. I don't know what the discount is, but when I worked for a couple of big corporations that had their own corporate jets, I drafted agreements permitting the CEO (in one case the corporation required it) to use the jet for personal travel and reimburse the company for the cost of commercial first class travel for the trip. It was a pretty sweet deal and, depending on the trip, gave the CEO and family use of a private jet at about 30 - 50% of the cost; my guess is the campaign gets at least that deal.

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