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🇹🇷 TürkiyeTrump's Air Force One Decoy Flight Raises Security and Deception Questions
After the NATO summit in Turkey last month, Donald Trump pulled up in a limo, climbed the stairs to the blue-liveried door of Air Force One, then turned and waved. The plane took off from Ankara 20 minutes later, ferrying the president, his entourage, and the journalists who had covered his trip. Or so it seemed.
In truth, as the Washington Post revealed last night, the White House had pulled a switcheroo. A surreptitious airport catering truck secretly shuttled Trump to a waiting military plane, which flew him out instead. By itself, the story is a bizarre chapter in presidential history.
But the context of the bait and switch—including the assassination threat that preceded it, an evident comfort with deceiving and potentially endangering members of his own administration and the press, and even controversy surrounding Air Force One itself—also marries a few themes of Trump’s second term so far. This sounds like something out of a spy movie. Here is what we know.
Source: Slate
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