In defending the gift of a super luxury jumbo jet he’s preparing to receive from the royal family of Qatar to use as Air Force One, President Donald Trump described it as a brilliant deal. Not for the American people, it isn’t.

Norman Eisen is the publisher of The Contrarian and the executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, for which Virginia Canter is the chief anticorruption counsel. Richard W. Painter is a law professor at the University of Minnesota. They served as ethics counsels in the Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses.