BOMBSHELL: FROM AIR FORCE ONE TO MEAL TRUCK! HOW TRUMP WAS SNEAKED OUT OF TURKEY LIKE CONTRABAND!
Not the grand exit he wanted!
GREATRIBUNETVNEWS–PRESIDENT Donald Trump traded Air Force One for a catering truck in a jaw-dropping, humiliating escape from Turkey following last month’s NATO summit.
Faced with an alleged Iranian threat, the world’s most powerful man was forced to hide and trick his own press corps just to get out alive!
KEY POINTS AS ORIGINALLY QUOTED:
1.”President Donald Trump is normally one for grand gestures that show off his power and importance, so one wonders how he’s dealing with the fact that he had to hide to get out of Turkey last month.”
2.”Worry about an Iranian threat apparently inspired the cooking up of an elaborate ruse to put the president in a catering truck and sneak him onto a small plane to slip him out of the country following a NATO summit.”
3. “Security concerns prompted Trump to secretly change planes in Turkey, official says”
4. “On the one hand, it’s kind of embarrassing. Trump had to abandon the UAE-donated luxury jet currently serving as Air Force One as well as an older presidential plane and then trick the press in order to get on a third plane.”
On the other hand, Trump has reason to be worried. He has already been the target of assassination attempts in the US, and CNN previously reported on intel about a 2024 assassination plot by Iran, so there’s ample reason for the president and his security team to be careful.
Sneaking presidents places is nothing new. Abraham Lincoln had to be sneaked into Washington, DC, by a Pinkerton detective before taking the oath of office. Southern states were seceding at the time and there were fears of a plot in “slave territory.” Lincoln swapped out his top hat for a beaver skin. Read more from the White House Historical Association.
Turkey, however, is a NATO ally. Iran’s military capabilities might not be quite as degraded as Trump has claimed if US officials were worried about an attack against his plane emanating from Turkey, a NATO country.
From CNN’s report by Kevin Liptak, Alejandra Jaramillo and Donald Judd:
For the last month, much of the public discussion about the plane swap had been centered on the security capabilities of the Qatari-donated plane. Trump had boasted about the new aircraft — even though officials felt it was not as secure as other planes because it had to be retrofitted to serve as Air Force One — and the president seethed privately over coverage of its deficiencies, CNN previously reported.
Now, attention is likely to shift to reporters and staffers unknowingly flying on a decoy plane — and the nature of the threat that prompted such dramatic security measures.
The whys and what-fors of this caper, first reported by the Washington Post and since confirmed by CNN, will be interesting to track as more facts emerge. But what we know so far does underscore a theme of Trump’s presidency: What he says in public is rarely the full truth.
SOURCE ==CNN==EXCEPT THE HEADLINE AND INTRO PLUS A FEW PARAGRAPHS
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