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Coons: "My first question to those who are on the 'leave behind' decoy plane would be, do you realize the president just isn't that into you?"

Anthony Citrano

@citrano.com

13 Aug

I despise the guy but couldn’t one say the same thing about all the decoys they have flown for literally decades? They fly two of the VC-25s a lot, they always fly 1-2 decoys for the white-top choppers. The USSS won’t let POTUS fly on the MV-22 Ospreys but staff and press fly on them all the time.

Anthony Citrano

@citrano.com

So there’s a lot of precedent for certain risks being acceptable for WH staff/press but unacceptable for POTUS. Having said that, he’s an odious human being for ten million other reasons. This just seems like it shouldn’t be one of them.

13/8/26, 1:18 pm0 reposts2 likes

Anthony Citrano

@citrano.com

13 Aug

The one thing that seems potentially dumb about this is deciding to fly the primary VC-25 (29000) full of people in the face of a “credible threat”. But do we know they would have been safer via alternate transport?