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Umbrella Pants
Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
When Air Force One left Turkey after July's NATO summit, most observers assumed President Trump was aboard, but he wasn't. Jonathan Freedland discusses the episode with Tara Setmayer of the Seneca Project, examining why the White House constructed the elaborate deception.
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Faking the president's own plane departure at a NATO summit is the kind of theater that raises more alarm than it prevents, since the obvious question is what exactly required that level of subterfuge. An administration this committed to stagecraft over disclosure invites exactly the scrutiny it's trying to dodge.