Trump boarded secret flight via catering truck due to Iran threat, US media reports

President Donald Trump took a secret military flight from Turkey last month in an operation that involved him being moved between aircraft in a catering truck, an extraordinary deception prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington...

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