<p id=”par-1_11″>Donald Trump’s controversial plane swap is getting the Netflix <em>Instadoc</em> treatment. </p>
<p id=”par-2_45″><em>The Decoy Plane </em>“pieces together what really happened” on July 8, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/donald-trump-claims-heard-artists-dropped-maga-fest-despite-meeting-1-personally.html/”>when the president</a> boarded Air Force One after a NATO summit in Turkey, then slipped off the plane via a catering truck and secretly flew out of the country on a different, smaller aircraft. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-new-netflix-doc-features-interviews-with-people-who-experienced-trump-plane-switch”>New Netflix doc features interviews with people who experienced Trump plane switch</h2>
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<p id=”par-3_75″>The switch happened after the Secret Service learned of a possible Iranian plot to assassinate the president. But the price of getting Trump out of Turkey unscathed was leaving the crew and remaining passengers – including the White House press pool and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – on Air Force One, where they were exposed to the risk that the plane would be shot down by an Iranian missile. </p>
<p id=”par-4_72″>The doc will feature interviews with people who have firsthand knowledge of the plane switch incident, including Gram Slattery, Reuters White House reporter; Alex Brandon, AP photographer; and Carol Leonnig, MS NOW investigative reporter. Dan Lamothe, the Washington Post reporter who was part of the team that broke the story; Robert McDonald, a former <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-secret-service-investigated-john-mulaney-over-an-snl-joke.html/”>Secret Service agent</a>; and Wanda Joell, a former Air Force One crew member, also provide insight and commentary. </p>
<p id=”par-5_9″><em>Instadoc: The Decoy Plane </em>premieres September 4 on Netflix. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-decoy-plane-interviewee-says-he-s-never-seen-anything-like-air-force-one-decoy-move”>‘The Decoy Plane’ interviewee says he’s ‘never seen’ anything like Air Force One decoy move</h2>
<p id=”par-6_29″>In a teaser for <em>The Decoy Plane</em>, Brandon says that he suspected something strange was going on even before he and the rest of the reporters boarded the plane. </p>
<p id=”par-7_56″>“As we get on the tarmac and we round and I look at Air Force One, I see those catering vehicles up against the side of Air Force One,” he recalls. “There’s one at the front and one at the back. And I have never seen that before. Forty years doing presidents. Never seen that before.” </p>
<p id=”par-8_24″>After the switch was revealed by the media, Trump didn’t deny the reports that he’d been spirited out of Turkey on a different jet. </p>
<p id=”par-9_55″>“I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane… I just have to do what they say,” he said (via the <a href=”https://newsroom.ap.org/editorial-photos-videos/detail?itemid=03d341a1fbcc4c009fb92ee1294cd2d3&mediatype=video” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Associated Press</a>). “I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_18″>As far as the fact that the move might have put other people at risk, Trump was unapologetic. </p>
<p id=”par-11_42″>“I don’t know. I think actually the plane that I flew on was at greater risk.” he said. I think it was at greater risk because that would be the plane I think that they would be more likely to go for.”</p>
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