A plane from the New England Patriots team flew to the notorious military base of Guantanamo Bay on Monday as part of an agreement with a charter company which sees the planes of the franchise working with the Ministry of Defense.
While Guantanamo was recently used to have American deportees under the Trump administration, a patriot spokesperson told Daily Mail that the plane “ had been used for any type of expulsion flight and that there was no detainee on the plane ”. The Kraft group, owned by the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft, was also contacted to comment.
However, the Patriots spokesman recognized that team planes were chartered to the Ministry of Defense “to move military staff as well as other government agencies without financial gain to the organization”.
“The plane of the Patriots of New England was not used for any kind of expulsion flight and there were no prisoners on the plane. Under our current charter manager, none of the Patriots’ planes has never been used for this purpose, ”began the full declaration.
“Team planes are operated by a professional charter company when they are not used by the team. This company manages all logistics, reservations and operations independently. The organization of the New England Patriots is not involved, neither approves, nor does not coordinate or coordinate planes when they are chartered for non -team purposes.
“The Charter company uses patriots’ planes as part of its inventory during the Charter at the Ministry of Defense to move military staff as well as other government agencies without financial gain to the organization.”
A plane of the New England Patriots flew to Guantanamo bay on Monday from Texas
The trip flight of the trip was first made public on Bluesky, showing the Boeing 767-300 path
In particular, the Patriots signed an agreement last year with Omni Air International, the company hired to exploit the two passenger planes of the team 767-300 of the team ” for team trips and other charter flights, including humanitarian and good will on behalf of the Kraft family ”, according to a press release.
However, an investigation by the Human Rights Center at the University of Washington in 2022 allegedly alleged that a plane of the Patriots team had carried out three flights of expulsion to Honduras.
The Daily Mail contacted the patriots for additional comments concerning this report.
The flight files displayed on Bluesky were published for the first time on Monday, which started at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance airport around 6 am before landing in Cuba a few hours later.
Records indicate that the plane was put to the ground for four hours, then returned to the Biggs army aerodrome in El Paso.
Kraft, seen alongside Trump in 2017, previously considered himself a friend of the president
The two Patriots’ team planes are painted in the colors of the team and have the word “patriots” which are written to them.
Guantanamo Bay’s military prison was opened in 2002 under the president of the time, George W. Bush.
Recently, it was also used as a place to temporarily hold immigrants sent to the Mega-Prison Salvador Cecot, while President Trump continues his mass deportation mission.
Kraft, in a previous interview with The Breakfast Club, said that he was a “ social friend ” from Trump in the 1990s and admitted having made a donation to his first campaign.
However, he said that he was “very upset” by the January 6 attacks against the Capitol in 2021 and has not spoken to him since.
