A minor MAGA Republican uproar over news last week that the U.S. would host Qatari pilots at a U.S. military base in Idaho was not caused by the Pentagon’s misleading phrasing for the facility, rather, a “misreporting” on the facts, according to Vice President Vance.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that the U.S. would be “signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho” a location that is set to host a contingent of Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots.

The news quickly sparked a backlash from several prominent figures in the GOP’s MAGA base, who blasted the Trump administration for allowing what seemed to be, according to Hegseth’s phrasing, a Qatari military base on U.S. soil. Qatar’s media........

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