Watchdog Group Asks for Probe of Defense Dept.’s Acquisition of Qatari Plane on Trump’s Behalf
9th August 2025
CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.
The watchdog group Democracy Defenders Fund, led by a former Obama administration ethics official, has formally requested a federal investigation into the Pentagon’s acceptance of a Qatari luxury jet on behalf of President Trump.
According to a memo obtained by CBS News, the group asked the Department of Defense’s inspector general and the Government Accountability Office to probe whether the Pentagon broke laws and engaged in impropriety by accepting the gift on Mr. Trump’s behalf from the Qatari royal family. The memo was sent to the inspector general and GAO on Friday.
The Democracy Defenders Fund is a nonpartisan advocacy group founded by Obama ethics czar Norm Eisen. Its memo said the agencies should investigate whether the Defense Department had improperly invoked its authorities to accept the jet aircraft and to reportedly transfer $934 million in funding from a nuclear missile program to help retrofit the aircraft.
As is obvious, this group is not a ‘watchdog group’ but rather a bunch of Democrat activists looking for some way to cause trouble for Trump. CBS calling it a ‘watchdog group’ is a transparent attempt to paint it with a level of credibility to which it is obviously not entitled. This is a constant theme with the Narrative Media: Any clump of Democrat activists is a ‘watchdog group’; any Republican group, of whatever nature, is a bunch of ‘conspiracy theorists’. (Instead of calling them ‘conspiracy theories’ we ought to call them ‘spoiler alerts’.)