President Trump will be taking the new Air Force One given to him by Qatar on a trip to Ireland in mid-September, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News. This will mark the first time the new plane will be flown overseas since Mr. Trump traveled to Turkey for a NATO summit. During that trip, the…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was with President Trump last month when he secretly took a different plane from the publicly identified Air Force One aircraft from the NATO summit, according to sources familiar with the situation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were on the decoy flight. The secretaries, who separated…
Shortly before Air Force One took off from Turkey at the end of last month’s NATO summit, President Trump secretly slipped away from the presidential jet and was whisked to another plane with the help of an airport catering truck, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the matter. The ruse was employed…
President Trump departed the NATO summit in Turkey earlier this month on the old Air Force One jet — rather than the newer plane donated by Qatar — following a credible threat to the president from Iran and allied proxy groups, U.S. officials told CBS News. The officials told CBS News that the U.S. detected…
The Justice Department, in trying to uncover confidential sources who spoke to the New York Times for its reporting on the security systems on the Qatar-donated Air Force One plane, attempted to gain access to phone records of several Times reporters and their family members. The Times said earlier this month that several journalists at the…
President Trump said Sunday that his new Air Force One, a luxury jet donated by Qatar, will be sent off for defensive upgrades amid speculation about its security capabilities. “It has a lot of capability, but as I understand it, in about a month or so, they’re going to send it to have it be…
