signalmankenneth
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By making a planeload of staff and reporters into unwitting decoys as they departed a NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, President Donald Trump presented America and the world with a profile in cowardice.
Just imagine the delight of the mullahs of Iran when they learned this week that what was described as a "credible threat" caused Trump to secretly switch planes on the tarmac in Ankara by sneaking onto a catering container.
If there had indeed been a threat, the perpetrators would have been led to believe their singular target was aboard. Everybody else on the plane would have been collateral damage.
Back in April, Trump boasted that in his war of choice with Iran, "We can do whatever we want."
His secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, declared in March that our warfighters were establishing "total dominance." Hegseth said the conflict's timeline "is ours and ours alone."
That sound you can now hear is of mullahs laughing.
As everyone now knows, Trump initially sought to cover up his return from Turkey with compound lies, at first saying that he had decided not to return on the new Air Force One so service members in Europe could see firsthand this "magnificent" gift to the U.S. from Qatar. He added that he would be taking the long-serving Air Force One for "old time's sake."
Word later leaked that there was a "credible threat" against Trump and that, for all its magnificence, the new plane did not yet have an air defense "package" comparable to the one in the older plane.
Only this week did we learn that even the older plane was deemed insufficiently safe for the president.
Photos show two catering containers hoisted alongside the older Air Force One, apparently so Trump could be spirited on one of them to a waiting military plane, having chickened out in a time of war, leaving others unknowingly in harm's way
The sides of the containers read "Turkish DO & CO." It might as well be "AIR TACO."
Trump had then flown undercover in the military plane to Mildenhall Air Force Base in England, arriving around the same time as both the old Air Force One and the new one. He slipped aboard the new one, where he was joined by the staff and reporters who had just arrived on the old one, unaware he had not been with them all along. They all flew back to America.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/opinion-trump-just-earned-presidency-004950402.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Just imagine the delight of the mullahs of Iran when they learned this week that what was described as a "credible threat" caused Trump to secretly switch planes on the tarmac in Ankara by sneaking onto a catering container.
If there had indeed been a threat, the perpetrators would have been led to believe their singular target was aboard. Everybody else on the plane would have been collateral damage.
Back in April, Trump boasted that in his war of choice with Iran, "We can do whatever we want."
His secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, declared in March that our warfighters were establishing "total dominance." Hegseth said the conflict's timeline "is ours and ours alone."
That sound you can now hear is of mullahs laughing.
As everyone now knows, Trump initially sought to cover up his return from Turkey with compound lies, at first saying that he had decided not to return on the new Air Force One so service members in Europe could see firsthand this "magnificent" gift to the U.S. from Qatar. He added that he would be taking the long-serving Air Force One for "old time's sake."
Word later leaked that there was a "credible threat" against Trump and that, for all its magnificence, the new plane did not yet have an air defense "package" comparable to the one in the older plane.
Only this week did we learn that even the older plane was deemed insufficiently safe for the president.
Photos show two catering containers hoisted alongside the older Air Force One, apparently so Trump could be spirited on one of them to a waiting military plane, having chickened out in a time of war, leaving others unknowingly in harm's way
The sides of the containers read "Turkish DO & CO." It might as well be "AIR TACO."
Trump had then flown undercover in the military plane to Mildenhall Air Force Base in England, arriving around the same time as both the old Air Force One and the new one. He slipped aboard the new one, where he was joined by the staff and reporters who had just arrived on the old one, unaware he had not been with them all along. They all flew back to America.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/opinion-trump-just-earned-presidency-004950402.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
