How the US president used a catering truck and decoy jets to leave Turkey
President Trump reportedly used a catering truck and a decoy jet to secretly depart Turkey following the NATO summit. The maneuver was allegedly taken to mitigate security risks and assassination threats from Iran.
Why it matters
It highlights the extreme security protocols required for high-level political figures in volatile geopolitical climates.
— 11:30am , first published 10:14am
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Share A A A Washington: President Donald Trump secretly boarded an alternative plane using an airport food truck when departing the NATO summit in Turkey last month, according to a bombshell report that underlines the gravity that US officials assigned to assassination threats from Iran.
Mystery had surrounded Trump’s departure from Ankara after he apparently left the country on board an older Air Force One plane, with its maximum protections, instead of the newly gifted Boeing 747 from Qatar .
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