Trumps confirms secret plane switch amid Iranian assassination threat

President Donald Trump confirmed he was smuggled off Air Force One and secretly boarded a different aircraft before departing the NATO Summit in Turkey.

Trump said on Tuesday that he consented to the switch following a request from the Secret Service.

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

The arrangement concealed Trump's actual location for several hours, not only from the American public but also from many senior administration officials.

President Donald Trump was snuck aboard a separate military plane via a catering truck to fly back from Turkey last month in order to avoid an Iranian assassination plot, according to a report from the Washington Post. The widely accepted narrative was previously that Trump boarded the old Air Force One to fly to the…