Trump used journalists as ‘decoy’ in escape from suspected assassination plot

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Trump used journalists as ‘decoy’ in escape from suspected assassination plot #trump #iran #breakingnews Unsuspecting journalists and White House staff became a “decoy” for a suspected assassination plot after Donald Trump secretly got off an Air Force One jet flying out of Turkey last month, a bombshell report claims. Trump boarded the plane with cameras rolling, along with media and government staff, to fly out of Ankara on July 8 following the annual NATO summit, a US official told The Washington Post. However, unbeknown to anyone on board, he then moved into a catering container that had been hydraulically lifted to the height of the plane. Once inside the container, he was ferried to a smaller C-32A aircraft that flew him to Britain. The press and White House staff members who were still in the Air Force One jet believed the US President was also on board. They were told to keep their window blinds down - an unusual step usually reserved for war zones - and the flight carr

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