Trump’s team worried Iranian spy would shoot down his plane with a missile after told of threat: book Trump staff flew on a ‘Trump Force One’ plane while the president boarded a decoy plane after security concerns increased.
The concern grew enough that the president flew in a plane separate from his recognizable “Trump Force One” to an event, according to an upcoming book about Trump’s rise to power.
Chris LaCivita, a political consultant who served as a senior adviser to Trump’s recent campaign, told staffers the decoy plane plan was “a sort of test for how things may happen in the future.”.
Security concerns about Iran targeting Trump have existed for years since the president ordered an airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military leader, in 2020.
On the day of the plane decoy, staff were told Trump would not be flying with them only moments before takeoff when they realized the now-president’s seat was empty.
