Trump hurtling toward new scandal as timeline moved forward on luxury foreign gift: report

The Trump administration is accelerating deployment of a luxury Boeing 747-8 jet donated by Qatar for use as Air Force One, with the U.S. Air Force announcing the aircraft will be ready for presidential use this summer.

That could cut the projected timelines nearly in half and raises fresh concerns about the arrangement's ethical and political implications, wrote MS NOW columnist Steve Benen.

The shift represents a striking reversal in Trump's relationship with Qatar, which he publicly...