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In this Ohio diner the coffee is served hot, pancakes are preferred over those foreign Belgian waffles, and some folks just aren’t sure if it’s ok to use a plane full of journalists as a decoy to be exploded

And we're gonna get to spend EVEN more of our tax dollars upgrading his grift jet yet again. It's almost as if the people saying accepting the jet was a bad idea from a security standpoint were right...

I don’t really have a problem with this since it is the Secret Service’s job to protect POTUS at all costs, even above his staff and the traveling press corps. The scandal may be why we know about this ruse now and not in some biography after he leaves office.

it was probably his idea and it isn’t a new one at that. he’s probably been going on about it for some time now and they indulged the petulance just to get him to shut up.

Real talk: Suppose he was actually right. Suppose the plane with the press on it was in fact targeted, or shot down. Within fifteen minutes, Tomahawk missiles are slamming into Tehran, brutally. Bridges, power plants, the works. Or *worse.* The press casualties would be the least of our worries.

You didn't game this out enough. Because if the SS thought it's a serious threat on AF1, why then not ground the planes? Or hide him on an earlier flight out? Why show him going on board? To make it a deliberate act of baiting the Iranians into shooting the place so the bombs can get launched.

Someone had sense, then. Me, I'd never risk anyone knowing exactly which aircraft the President was on (except maybe the people actually on that aircraft, after they couldn't communicate that to anyone outside the aircraft).

With media and some staff left on board Air Force One which was used as a decoy. I would be thinking real hard about whether I want to hang around with this guy anymore.

I mean, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me to do if there was legitimately a threat to the life of the president? That this president is a dipshit imbecile running the country into the ground doesn't really change that

You can do the clandestine mission to change the president to a new plane and say Air Force One is having some technical issues or something. By the time anyone realizes the president isn’t on the plane, he’s already halfway across the Atlantic. I don’t think they needed a decoy flight.

If there was a legitimate the threat to the President, then the fact that he was willing to use a bunch of reporters and staff members as a decoy to ensure his own personal safety makes him seem pretty scummy. Almost like he cares about nobody but himself…