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Trump’s Air Force One Decoy: Who Went with Him — and Who He Left Behind
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August 13, 2026
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2:06Now PlayingPresident Trump was secretly whisked off Air Force One in an airport catering truck last month and departed Turkey on a separate military flight after intelligence determined Iranian operatives could use a shoulder-launched rocket to blow the presidential jet out of the sky.
The decoy AF1 flight took off-sans Trump, but with journalists and a number of his senior officials and staffers still on board, where according to Fox News, the press was told to keep their window shades down by orders of the secret service.
So which staffers joined Trump, and who were left behind?
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