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As noted further down in the story, "Air Force One" is actually a callsign, not a specific plane. Any plane the president is on is AF1. I get a president having to fly incognito, like when Biden went to Ukraine. But to call something AF1 that *wasn't* AF1 -- AND FOR THAT TO LEAK -- seems bad?

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Breaking news: An Iranian assassination threat against President Trump prompted an operation in which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while the White House said he was aboard Air Force One, The Post has learned.

Doing the whole flight with no signal and/or no callsign was an option! That's what they did at earlier stages of the flight. Changing it to AF1 is using the crew, staff members and journalists as bait for the aggressor allegedly making the serious threat.

Right! Especially considering that wasn’t at all true on the previous leg! They could have “went” without him.

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