The decoy effort to get President Donald Trump out of Turkey last month occurred after the threat of a surface-to-air missile against Air Force One was deemed sufficiently credible.
Iran also knew remarkably specific details about Trump’s stay in Ankara during the NATO summit, including where he was staying and even which floor of the building he was on, according to two U.S. officials cited by The New York Times.
U.S. intelligence picked up multiple streams of information as Trump headed into the summit’s final day on July 8, including a specific threat against whichever aircraft was carrying the president and a report that someone near the summit had been spotted with a shoulder-fired missile.
The intelligence triggered an extraordinary security operation designed to conceal Trump’s movements.
Trump publicly boarded the older Air Force One before he was secretly taken off the aircraft, concealed in an airport catering truck, and transported to a smaller military jet that flew him out of Turkey. [Source: Newsmax 8-12-26]
I keep thinking how America is on the precipice after Trump leaves office in 2 years. This latest threat to the President’s life reminds us of how on the precipice we are RIGHT NOW. Communists and terrorists taking office across the nation; RINOs on the take, longing for approval by the New York Times as if it were 1998 again; decent chaps like Marco Rubio who must be prepared to put their loved ones (including any young children) at physical risk because the people we are granting power to in 2026 will (mark my words) make Hitler and Stalin blush.
I am not trying to be negative. I am simply stating the objective truth based on facts everywhere you turn. We have to stop being complacent and gullible. All our rights, our property and our very lives are in as much danger as President Trump’s life on Air Force One.