Trump’s secret plane switch revives Bill Clinton’s 2000 India-Pakistan decoy flight. It has an al-Qaeda link

Trump’s reported secret aircraft switch while leaving Turkey has revived memories of Bill Clinton’s 2000 India-Pakistan tour.

President Trump is responding to questions after the Secret Service addressed a threat from Iran by covertly moving him to a second plane when leaving Turkey a month ago. "I just have to do what they say," he said. Some aides and journalists were left on board the decoy plane. CBS News' Nancy Cordes has more.

President says Secret Service wanted him on ‘different plane’ due to threat as Democrats call for congressional briefing Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. President Donald Trump said he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on

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,

After Trump plane ruse, WHCA presses White House on press pool safeguards | CNN Business  CNN

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 reporters aboard the plane used as a decoy for President Donald Trump's flight from Turkey were probably exposed to the very threat that had prompted the extraordinary security measures.

Before Trump, Clinton took a decoy plane for safety. I was there  USA Today