Dan Lamothe
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Aug
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The larger of the two planes was designated as Air Force One, was squawking Air Force One as a call sign, despite the fact that the president was on the smaller
The president boarded the old Air Force One in view of cameras, waved to the cameras in Turkey, and then secretly just a couple minutes later left that Air Force One plane on an airport catering truck.
The catering truck again goes up.
It's there just a couple minutes, seemingly long enough just to drop someone or something off.
And then the two planes leave in sequence and land nine minutes apart in Britain on the other end a few hours later.
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If there is enough of a threat to move the president, certainly there is probably not a zero danger to that aircraft.
I mean, I think that's just a logical conclusion.
That said, we've seen some reporting where the Wall Street Journal now says that Secretary of State Marco Rubio stayed on the Air Force One.
So it sounds like you had senior officials on both planes.
within the space of a day and a half or so, they went from taking that plane very publicly into Turkey to sending it home before anything else.
They said at the time they were doing it so US troops in Britain could see it.
That was, even in the moment, kind of seen as unlikely, or at least not the full reason.
And then they swapped to these other planes, and they never really accounted for why they did so.
So I think we're left with question marks about the capabilities of the newest of the jets.
And they have since said that they are going to, quote-unquote, max out the security on the newest jet.
You're not just dealing with...
shoulder fire missiles and whatever else, you also have to account for drone swarms.
You have to account for a variety of other things that at least probably is in the back of somebody's mind as a legitimate threat.
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I think in particular, the idea that you would restrict it for 10 days was pretty striking.
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