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AsiaPac · 16 mins ago

How to hide a president in plain sight: Trump’s catering caper had a Clinton precedent

Trump’s secret Turkey exit echoes a 26-year-old Clinton decoy operation in Pakistan.TOI correspondent from Washington: The catering caper may have been new. The presidential decoy was not.Some 26 years before US President Donald Trump was secretly spirited out of Turkey aboard a smaller military aircraft while an Air Force One filled with reporters and White House personnel flew on as a decoy, Bill Clinton pulled off an almost eerily similar deception in Pakistan.On March 25, 2000, Clinton arrived in Islamabad behind a decoy aircraft. A Gulfstream C-20 executive jet with US Presidential markings landed first, and a Secret Service agent who resembled Clinton stepped out before the plane taxied away. Ten minutes later, an unmarked C-20, painted off-white and silver, landed from another direc
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