Shoulder-fired missile threat prompted Trump’s plane ruse, source says
Win McNamee/Getty Images A specific threat to Air Force One by a shoulder-fired missile emerged on the final day of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, according to a person familiar with the matter, prompting the scramble among US officials to devise a furtive plan to sneak President Donald Trump out of the country on an alternate jet.
The threat was specific enough that officials feared Trump’s life would be at enormous risk if he flew out of the country on either the legacy Air Force One plane or the Qatar-donated jet that he used to fly to the summit.
Officials, including from the military and Secret Service, put together the plan to move Trump to another plane to fly out of the country within hours.
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