As twilight settled over the tarmac in Ankara, President Donald Trump was smuggled off Air Force One and into an inconspicuous catering truck in a covert plane-swap operation designed to dodge a possible Iranian assassination threat.
At exactly 8.28pm on July 8, following the NATO summit in the Turkish capital, Trump was bundled off the presidential jumbo jet – which he had been filmed boarding moments earlier – and shoved into the tight metal confines of the waiting food cart just before takeoff.
The mission was carried out unbeknownst to journalists and even some White House staffers who believed they were still on the
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