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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 03:34 AM Feb 2017

Air Force Stumped by Claim of $1 Billion Savings

by Anthony Capaccio
February 22, 2017, 6:14 PM EST

The Air Force can’t account for $1 billion in savings that President Donald Trump said he’s negotiated for the program to develop, purchase and operate two new Boeing Co. jets to serve as Air Force One.

“To my knowledge I have not been told that we have that information,” Colonel Pat Ryder, an Air Force spokesman, told reporters Wednesday when asked how Trump had managed to reduce the price for the new presidential plane. “I refer you to the White House,” Ryder said. A White House spokesman didn’t respond to repeated inquiries about Trump’s comments ...


https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-22/air-force-stumped-by-trump-s-claim-of-1-billion-savings-on-jet

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Air Force Stumped by Claim of $1 Billion Savings (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
IMAGINATION! elleng Feb 2017 #1
It's simple really, Rincewind Feb 2017 #2
Bingo! BlueMTexpat Feb 2017 #3
How a Conman Cons the Conned! By Con Don!!!! slingsam Feb 2017 #4
He probably saved a lot of money. duncang Feb 2017 #5
Trump is just making shit up again. The man's a psycho. Vinca Feb 2017 #6
If they look close madokie Feb 2017 #7

Rincewind

(1,201 posts)
2. It's simple really,
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 04:56 AM
Feb 2017

it's a three step process. Step one, claim the cost is $1 billion more than it actually is. Step two, claim you negotiated a $1billion cut. Step three, brag about the savings.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
5. He probably saved a lot of money.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:33 AM
Feb 2017

By dropping the solid 24K gold toilet and bathroom fixtures he wanted. And only using solid 18k gold when they told him 24k is really soft and might collapse when he sat on it.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
7. If they look close
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:37 AM
Feb 2017

at those figures they'll find they have an Orange tinge to them

In other words he pulled them out of his fat ass

Nothing dRumpF is fact and that is a FACT

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