President Trump confirmed he was secretly moved off Air Force One after last month's NATO summit in Turkey, hiding in an airport catering container to board another plane while Air Force One flew on as a decoy, following what he called a threat from Iran he
Ju didn't ask much about.
White House officials, security, support staff and the traveling press pool were left on the decoy Air Force One without being told of the actual danger, an arrangement Trump brushed off Tuesday by saying he gets threats all the time and doesn't worry about anything.
Presidential security experts note prior presidents have used decoy planes in war zones, but call the weeks-long secrecy here, including concealing the ruse from the traveling press entirely until The Washington Post's report, unprecedented for a trip that wasn't to a war zone.
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