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The 'extraordinary' tip this reporter got about Trump's flight
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August 17, 2026
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1:26Now PlayingEven though the White House said President Donald Trump was aboard Air Force One as he left the NATO summit in July, the president took a secret flight amid a threat from Iran.
The Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe broke that story.
The administration "received a tip from Israel saying that they thought the president's life was in danger, that there could've been a threat on him or the aircraft,” Lamothe told Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg. “That threat was assessed later to be not high confidence. But in the moment, without a lot of time to act, they chose to put this all in motion.”
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