#123 Robert J., Jr., Or, The Kennedy Curse Continues

It turns out that Trump’s free, no-strings-attached, because-we-love-you-as-all-right-thinking-humans-must Airforce One gift from Qatar is going to cost about a billion to renovate. No biggie, since a new one would have cost about 5 billion. The rub is that the Trump Administration is (well, at this point, was) trying to hide the expense. Business (under the table) as usual for this crew.




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