Before Trump’s Turkey plane swap, how Clinton used decoy to land in Pak 26 years ago

More than 25 years later, Trump revives Clinton-era flight switch tacticWhen then-US President Bill Clinton arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, in March 2000, a decoy aircraft bearing Air Force One markings landed in view of the media, followed by a Secret Service agent resembling Clinton. An unmarked aircraft then landed, carrying the president, who disembarked from it.Susan Page, a White House reporter for USA Today at the time, was among a small group of people who knew about the operation.Before Clinton’s flight from India to Pakistan, White House officials summoned Page, who was then president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, for an off-the-record briefing. White House press and security officials told her about the operation, including Clinton’s location and the safety mea