The president’s executive assistant was among a small group of people who secretly switched planes with Trump over a potential Iranian threat, as noted by Sen. Jon Ossoff.
On "Connect with Jacob Soboroff": NYT White House correspondent and Donald Trump biographer Maggie Haberman on why the president might have taken his ‘binky’ Natalie Harp, among others, with him on his decoy plane out of Turkey after a NATO summit in July.
They thought they were flying with the president. They weren’t. After the NATO summit, President Trump secretly switched planes, leaving the press corps aboard Air Force One without him. One of the reporters, Reuters’ Gram Slattery, joins LiveNOW’s Anna Marsick to tell his story.
An apparent Iranian threat, an airport catering truck and a decoy plane. These are the bizarre details of the plot to sneak President Trump out of Turkey during a NATO summit in July. Jacob Soboroff takes us (literally) inside the ruse.
President Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding Russia’s president, whose fixation on security has reached new heights in recent years.
The White House aides Natalie Harp and Dan Scavino were among those traveling with the president on a military jet.
U.S. fighter jets guarded the decoy Air Force One carrying reporters and senior cabinet members to Britain after President Trump secretly boarded a smaller military aircraft in Turkey, a covert operation triggered by a credible Iranian assassination threat. A senior Trump administration official disclosed the fighter escort to Fox News on Wednesday, pushing back on […] The post Fighter jets escorted 'decoy' Air Force One while Trump flew secret plane out of Turkey appeared first on American Almanac .
U.S. fighter jets guarded the decoy Air Force One carrying reporters and senior cabinet members to Britain after President Trump secretly boarded a smaller military aircraft in Turkey, a covert operation triggered by a credible Iranian assassination threat. A senior Trump administration official disclosed the fighter escort to Fox News on Wednesday, pushing back on concerns that the press corps and White House staff aboard the original plane had been left unprotected during the deception. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were also aboard the decoy aircraft. The operation unfolded after Trump departed a NATO summit in Ankara. Rather than board Air Force One as usual, Trump was smuggled off the tarmac…Open
The president reportedly snuck off Air Force One and onto another aircraft last month.
The president reportedly snuck off Air Force One and onto another aircraft last month.Open
Trump briefly hid in a catering container to board the other plane unnoticed.
Trump was stowed away in an airport catering container in order to sneak onto an alternate aircraft, while Air Force One took off to act as a decoy.