During the pandemic, we already found out that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser likes the nightlife, but her travel took her to an Islamic terror state as part of an ‘in-kind donation’.

7News has discovered that the nation of Qatar paid $61,930 for Mayor Bowser and four staff members to fly to the Middle East in 2023.

But not before Bowser tried covering it up.

As far as 7News has been able to discover during our ongoing investigation, Mayor Bowser doesn’t turn in any travel expense records at all.

First, Susana Castillo, the Mayor’s Director of Communications, told 7News in a July 9, 2024, email that the trip was paid for by the D.C. Chamber of Commerce.

That wasn’t true. Neither was this.

Days later, Castillo told 7News over the phone that the U.S. Conference of Mayors picked up the tab. The Conference of Mayors had no comment and told us to talk to the mayor’s office.

And then it gets worse.

Then comes a letter, 7News obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated March of this year from the nation of Qatar to the mayor’s office.

It shows the nation of Qatar paid more than $61,000 for Mayor Bowser’s trip to Doha in 2023, which included travel expenses for four staff members.

Qatar called it an “in-kind donation”.

Followed by yet another retroactive cover-up.

Now comes this letter, from February, sent to officials in Qatar amid our investigation. In the letter, the mayor’s office asks for a breakdown of the mayor’s 2023 trip expenses and the total tab covered by the Middle Eastern country.

Bowser’s office explains that such “donations” must be properly recorded, and a donation agreement will have to be executed.

7News would like to know why the mayor’s office is asking to create a Donation Agreement in 2025 for a trip she took in 2023. A situation that directly violates Mayor Bowser’s memorandum on rules of conduct governing donations requires that each donation be submitted and approved by the Office of Partnerships and Grant Services before the city can enter into a Donation Agreement.

All of this is being done with Qatar, an Islamic terrorist state, the state sponsor of Hamas, with ties to other Islamic terrorist groups, and which harbored the 9/11 mastermind.

Qatar has been buying influence in the United States and clearly Mayor Bowser was happy to go along.