Shoulder-fired missile threat prompted Trump’s Turkey plane switch: report

US intelligence officials learned Iran had tracked down information about which hotel floor Trump was staying on in Ankara, according to the New York Times.

President Trump defended his secret plane swap in Turkey after a credible Iran threat against Air Force One. Meanwhile, lawmakers are demanding more answers about it since administration officials and journalists remained on the threatened plane. CBS News' Aaron Navarro has more.

US officials had to devise a covert plan to sneak Trump out of the country in an alternate jet following the threat.

Threat from ‘portable missile’ forced Trump to switch planes  The Times

Trump took close aides with him but appeared to leave top Cabinet officials in the older Air Force One

Shoulder-fired missile threat prompted Trump’s plane ruse, source says  CNN

"I guess there was a threat out there. I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats," Trump told reporters.

A specific threat to Air Force One by a shoulder-fired missile emerged on the final day of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey, according to a person familiar with the matter, prompting the scramble among US officials to devise a furtive plan to sneak President Donald Trump out of the country on an alternate jet. …

A credible threat to Trump involving Iran set the "deception operation" in motion, a US official familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

Ethical questions are raised over a US Secret Service ruse that used a plane full of journalists as a possible "decoy" in response to an alleged Iranian threat to shoot Air Force One out of the sky.

The plan to protect the president involved a catering truck and a secondary military plane to transfer him safely.

It was forced to make an unexpected stop in Dublin after smoke on board the aircraft.

Iran Threat Prompted Trump To Secretly Swap Planes While Leaving Turkey, Reports Say  Forbes