Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, second from right, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, second from left, in March 2019.
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
President Trump walked off the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on July 9 after attending a NATO summit in Turkey. A security threat was said to have altered his trip.
The threat led the Secret Service to urge President Trump to fly out of Turkey on a different plane, raising questions about the security of the Qatari-donated jet.
President Trump walking off the older Air Force One at Mildenhall Air Force Base in Britain on July 8. He swapped to the newer jet, donated by Qatar, for the flight back to Washington.
President Trump has insisted the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran would be a relatively short “excursion,” although it has lasted nearly five months, with no end in sight.
The Qatari-donated plane has been under scrutiny over whether it is fitted with sufficient defensive capabilities to adequately protect a U.S. president and others traveling on it.
After The New York Times reported on security concerns related to the Qatari-donated jet, the F.B.I. sought to speak with several people who flew aboard the plane with President Trump last week and asked for their phones.
The planned prime-time address comes as an administration task force has been working to declassify documents, including some related to elections, according to people familiar with the process.
A previously unreported encounter last summer set the stage for a rapprochement between the president and his former fixer, who has so far avoided the diatribes and prosecutions that President Trump has directed at other critics.
Michael Cohen outside a Manhattan courtroom in 2023. He testified in Mr. Trump’s criminal trial that he was directed to falsify records by the president, who was ultimately convicted on 34 counts.
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