Trump denies orchestrating plane switch: ‘It’s only up to Secret Service’

The Washington Post reported Monday that an Iranian threat prompted a covert operation for the president to leave Turkey aboard a secret flight.

Trump claims his secret plane was in more danger than the Air Force One decoy the public thought Trump was flying on.

President Trump on Tuesday said the undisclosed plan to transfer him off of Air Force One and on to a separate military plane last month came at the request of the Secret Service.  “It’s up to the Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight from a different plane.…

Trump says he followed Secret Service orders during covert aircraft switch amid security threat, “I’m the last person to trust Iran”

The US president stowed away in an airport catering container to move from Air Force One to another plane for flight from Turkey to UK.

'I go by Secret Service': Trump explains Air Force One covert switch  usatoday.com

Trump confirms secret flight switchUS president Donald Trump has acknowledged that he was moved to a different aircraft while leaving Ankara last month, saying he followed instructions from the Secret Service and military after being told the plane he had initially boarded would face a “greater risk”."I go by Secret Se

Donald Trump also said that he has received several threats that people don't know about, adding that any consequential president has a lot of threats.

Charles Marino, a former DHS adviser and a former Secret Service special agent, joins CBS News to share his take on the news that President Trump secretly switched to a different plane amid a threat from Iran while leaving Turkey last month.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Donald Trump’s longtime biographer has a hunch about who leaked his secret Air Force One decoy maneuver to The Washington Post. Author Michael Wolff says he believes word of a covert Secret Service operation—to shield the president from a credible Iran

How Trump’s secret plane switch unfolded  CNN

We are learning new details about the elaborate Secret Service operation to swap President Trump’s planes amid an Iranian assassination threat. NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports.

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.

Former Secret Service agents say the unusual maneuver reflects presidential security improvising in a hurry

President Trump's secret plane switch in Turkey is putting Air Force One's security protocols and defensive capabilities in the spotlight. Why it matters: Air Force One is the call sign for any Air Force aircraft carrying the president, meaning Trump's secret switch didn't change the designation — but it changed the pl

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Donald Trump has confirmed US media reports he secretly left Turkey by switching planes via a catering container over a threat from Iran.