Trump’s Air Force One Ankara decoy flight put top officials, reporters at deadly risk — report
While US President Donald Trump was sneaked away from Air Force One to a military plane at Ankara airport last month due to the threat of an Iranian attack, the lives of numerous US government officials and journalists who were nonetheless allowed to fly out aboard the presidential jet were at deadly risk, according to a report on Tuesday.The officials who remained aboard Air Force One, which was allowed to take off after a NATO summit in Ankara despite the threat, included Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as well as top Trump aides Stephen Miller and Steven Cheung, The New York Times reported.US intelligence had multiple sources of information about plans to fire a surface-to-air missile at Air Force One and had received a report of a person with a shoulder-fired missile in the area of the summit, according to The Times, which cited two…
A recent report revealed that numerous US government officials and journalists aboard Air Force One were at deadly risk during a decoy flight from Ankara last month. US President Donald Trump was secretly moved to a military plane due to intelligence indicating a specific threat of a surface-to-air missile attack against Air Force One. Officials like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remained on the presidential jet, which took off as a decoy.
"They knew that there was a specific threat of a surface-to-air missile against Air Force One, meaning whichever plane was carrying the president, and that someone in the vicinity of the NATO summit had been spotted with a shoulder-fired missile."
The decision to use Air Force One as a decoy while Trump was spirited away in a catering truck to a smaller military plane sparked criticism regarding the safety of those left on board. This incident occurred amidst escalating hostilities with Iran, which has publicly pledged to assassinate Trump.
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