{"id":5243,"date":"2026-08-12T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:13:47","slug":"white-house-goons-melt-down-over-trumps-dark-decoy-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5243","title":{"rendered":"White House Goons Melt Down Over Trump\u2019s Dark Decoy Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>White House officials melted down online after President Donald Trump was accused of using journalists as \u201cbait\u201d to escape a possible Iranian assassination threat. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5241\">Lying ICE Agent Busted Pointing Gun in Face of American-Born Mom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump, 80, was seen boarding Air Force One in Turkey in front of reporters on July 8, the night after renewed U.S. military strikes on Iran prompted credible intelligence warnings of a threat to his life. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>But a Washington Post investigation revealed that as part of an urgent security measure, Trump was secretly shuttled to a decoy plane, an Air Force C-32A, via an airport catering truck. The operation was so tightly guarded that some White House staffers and reporters believed Trump was flying with them out of Turkey toward the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The critique is that the operation potentially endangered the journalists and staff left behind on the aircraft everyone believed he was aboard.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation sparked a flashpoint between the White House and S.V. D\u00e1te, White House correspondent at HuffPost, who wrote that journalists were made to be \u201cbait for a possible attack,\u201d and that the president \u201cran and hid.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The official Trump administration account, Rapid Response 47, fired back with a personal jab. \u201cNo, just you, Shirish \u2014 a truly generational idiot,\u201d it wrote. D\u00e1te responded, \u201cOh, look the children are still up. Don\u2019t you have homework to finish?\u201d suggesting interns run the account.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e1te didn\u2019t back down, sparring with other commentators on the platform. Conservative talk radio host Erick Erickson wrote, \u201cIf you are a reporter and only today realize you are expendable to the US Secret Service, you might need to find a new job.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>D\u00e1te shot back, \u201cYou are totally getting this wrong. We sign up to take risks associated with covering the president. Not to be bait for a possible attack.\u201d Erickson retorted, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t bait. It was the nature of a serious situation. The Secret Service protects the President, not the press.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>When another commentator argued Trump simply wasn\u2019t on the plane this time, D\u00e1te exploded. \u201cIs everyone on this website a complete idiot?? The point of the press pool is to be WITH the president. If the president runs and hides on a different plane, that\u2019s not being with him, is it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5239\">MAGA Candidate Crumbles When Asked About Cheating on His Wife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writing for HuffPost, D\u00e1te laid out alternatives he says Trump could have used instead. \u201cThe plane could have flown with an escort of F-35 fighters, which are often equipped with sophisticated anti-missile electronic warfare technology, aviation experts said,\u201d he wrote, adding it \u201ccould have been accompanied by large tankers or cargo planes, creating multiple radar echoes and heat sources to make targeting Air Force One more difficult.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He said the simplest option \u201cmight have been for Trump to slip away aboard the smaller jet, then publicly announce that fact after he was safely over the Mediterranean Sea or western Europe.\u201d He called the operation \u201ca massive breach of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s chief political analyst David Axelrod, who flew on Air Force One as a strategist for President Barack Obama, told Kaitlan Collins on <i>The Source<\/i> he was stunned by what happened. \u201cIt was kind of stunning to think that all those on the plane were essentially a decoy,\u201d Axelrod said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were not told that the president was not on board, and the deception continued even after he had safely returned to Washington. That\u2019s hard for me to understand.\u201d He called the secrecy \u201cvery unusual\u201d and said it was \u201ca little disturbing\u201d that \u201cthe American people deserve to know\u201d how serious the threat actually was.<\/p>\n<p>Former CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr raised a pointed question of her own on X. \u201cCrucial: if the threat was so serious President could not be on AF1 WHY did AF conduct the mission?\u201d she wrote. \u201cIran thought he was on the flight. Wasn\u2019t everyone else on board still at risk?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Even Trump ally Scott Jennings, also appearing on The Source, called the situation \u201chighly unusual,\u201d though he said it sounded like a \u201cvery, very serious threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Asked by a reporter whether he was aware of the credible threat from Iran, Trump replied, \u201cI\u2019m number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go, right? So perhaps someday you wanna change professions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5238\">The Dark Truth About Trump\u2019s Plane Switch Leak: Wolff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House officials melted down online after President Donald Trump was accused of using journalists as \u201cbait\u201d to escape a possible Iranian assassination threat. Read more Lying ICE Agent Busted Pointing Gun in Face of American-Born Mom Trump, 80, was seen boarding Air Force One in Turkey in front of reporters on July 8, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White House Goons Melt Down Over Trump\u2019s Dark Decoy Plot - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5243\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White House Goons Melt Down Over Trump\u2019s Dark Decoy Plot - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"White House officials melted down online after President Donald Trump was accused of using journalists as \u201cbait\u201d to escape a possible Iranian assassination threat. 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