Trump used journalists as ‘decoy’ in escape from suspected assassination plotUnsuspecting 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. Political analyst David Axelrod said the “extraordinary” swap must have come about as the result of a severe threat. “If they needed to take such extraordinary steps to protect the president because the threat level was so high, the American people deserve to know that the threat level was that high in this particular case, that he had to take such an extraordinary measure,” Mr Axelrod told CNN. “And then the other piece of it is that, in fact, everyone on that plane was a decoy. “If they felt that it was unsafe to be on the plane, then it was unsafe for everybody else to be on the plane as well. “So, they at least deserve to know, if not then, then after, why this was happening.” CNN host Kaitlan Collins agreed that the plane “would still have been a target” if everyone believed the president was on board. Trump used journalists as ‘decoy’ in escape from suspected assassination plot | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines
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