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Trump says advisers wanted him off Air Force One in Turkey due to threat
Trump said the Secret Service and military moved him to another flight because of a credible threat, while Air Force One flew as a decoy.
- President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One following a summit in Turkey due to a security threat. "They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane," Trump said.
- Reports indicate Trump stowed away in an airport catering container to board a separate aircraft while Air Force One flew as a decoy out of Turkey. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung stated, "We use every tool at our disposal to address those threats."
- Unlike standard decoy maneuvers, this operation involved concealing Trump's whereabouts from the traveling press pool meant to provide independent coverage. Security observers consider this unprecedented in modern presidential security protocols.
- Garrett M. Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself, warned the secrecy creates dangerous gaps. "You can imagine the different ways that this could have gone wrong," Graff said.
- Historical precedents exist: President Joe Biden secretly traveled to Kyiv in 2023 and President Bill Clinton flew covertly to Pakistan in 2000. Those operations generally avoided misleading the public about the president's true location during transit.
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Trump is following the military, he says, and confirms that he was smuggled out of Turkey after the summit.
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Trump uncorks stunning claims about secret plane switch: 'I have a lot of threats'
President Donald Trump let fly a series of stunning claims when he was asked about the latest threat on his life during a press conference on Tuesday night. Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews after returning home from attending the Patriot Games. He was asked about the recent report that he switched planes using a snack truck last month as he traveled home from a NATO summit in Turkey in order to avoid a credible threat from Iran. On…
·Washington, United States
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Leaning Left12Leaning Right8Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution38% Left, 37% Center
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- 38% of the sources lean Left, 37% of the sources are Center
38% Left
L 38%
C 37%
R 25%
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