A truly WILD story. This appears to be the order of operations:
1. Trump flies to Turkey on the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the NATO summit.
2. An Iranian assassination threat triggers a secret “deception operation.” Security officials devise a plan to conceal which aircraft Trump is actually traveling on.
3. The Qatari-gifted Air Force One leaves Turkey first, without Trump.
4. Trump publicly boards the legacy Air Force One in Ankara, walking up the stairs and waving for cameras, creating the appearance that this is his plane home.
5. Trump secretly exits Air Force One through the other side of the aircraft and gets into an airport catering truck raised to the plane’s door.
6. The catering truck drives Trump to a smaller Air Force C-32A, a modified Boeing 757 parked nearby.
7.. Trump secretly boards the C-32A. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also boards separately.
8. Reporters and some White House staff board the legacy Air Force One, apparently unaware Trump is no longer aboard. They are instructed to close their window shades. (Remember all that reporting from the time?)
9. The legacy Air Force One takes off as a decoy and eventually uses the “AF1” call sign despite Trump not being aboard.
10. Trump’s actual C-32A flies secretly to Britain under the nondescript call sign “Reach 18,” with its normal flight-tracking systems reportedly switched off.
11. Trump arrives at RAF Mildenhall in Britain on the C-32A, shortly before the decoy Air Force One arrives.
12. Trump somehow transfers back onto the legacy Air Force One after landing. The Post says exactly how this transfer occurred remains unclear.
13. Trump then emerges from the legacy Air Force One in front of cameras, making it appear as though that was the aircraft he had flown from Turkey.
14. Trump boards the Qatari-gifted Air Force One in Britain and finally flies back to Washington with the press and staff.
P.S. Remember when Trump told the reporters on the plane, "I go, you go," in regard to the plane being targeted? It actually seems Trump left and endangered the lives of everyone on board.
Todd Blanche put Ghislaine Maxwell in a minimum security prison.
Todd Blanche illegally exposed Epstein's victims, including nude pictures.
Todd Blanche protected the rapists who paid to rape children.
Todd Blanche was fine with Donald Trump pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted Cartel boss and drug trafficker.
Todd Blanche was fine with the pardon of Changpeng Zhao who laundered money for human traffickers and drug cartels.
Todd Blanche was fine with sending Kilmar Armando Ábrego García to die in prison, even though he'd never been convicted of a crime.
Todd Blanche tried to prosecute Abrego García on fabricated charges to save Trump the embarrassment.
Todd Blanche was willing to let an actual human trafficker out of prison early to "testify" against Abrego García.
Todd Blanche signed off on a deal that would allow Donald Trump and his family immunity from tax fraud after they corruptly made billions of dollars off of Trump's Presidential powers, selling pardons and policy to whoever would pay for them.
Todd Blanche was, and still considers himself to be, Donald Trump's personal attorney.
Todd Blanche was willing to send David Hearn to prison for a crime that not only did Hearn not commit, but a crime that wasn't even committed, all to not make Donald Trump look bad.
Any one of those things would be disqualifying for any other AG nominee, but not for this one.
But now, Todd Blanche is the Attorney General of the United States.
And the issue here isn't just the things he has done, but what he has shown himself willing to do.
If the past is prologue, how can we trust that this man, entrusted with the protection of the rule of law, won't just openly flay it?
Every Senator who voted to confirm him is a shameless, vile, disgusting, America-hating, antipatriotic bag of fermented dog vomit. Shame on every last one of them.
Elon just called Hitler a socialist again, and every time he does this, Grok corrects him and points out that Hitler was a fascist.
Never deleting this app.
MEHDI: “If the midterms don’t go Trump’s way, is there any world where Todd Blanche stands up to Trump if he’s asked to find fake evidence of voter fraud? Or are we screwed now?”
EX TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY TY COBB: “We’re screwed.”
@mehdirhasan: “Great.” 😕🇺🇸
For being so close to the end of his life. I’m still shocked everyday about how little he cares about people.
He will face his maker someday (as we all will.). I’m not sure callous disregard for civilians and life is how you want to be judged.
Pro-life my ass
Pretty simple. The right is constantly inventing totally crazy scenarios of gotcha moments that won’t happen to create a sense of hysteria.
Here are the facts:
— A trans woman has never played in the WNBA. In 30 years.
— Trans women are barred from competing in women’s sports in the NCAA and the Olympics.
— 29 states have banned trans girls participation in women’s sports K-12.
— The Supreme Court ruled states can exclude trans girls from participating in women’s sports.
Y’all won. Y’all got it. So why is the right still crying and whining about an argument that is backed by law and policy at virtually every level?
Wait, I have an answer. They want to erase trans existence period and no amount of exclusion, degradation, or denigration will ever be good enough for them.
SO they create these dumb, illogical, stupid-ass scenarios because there actually isn’t enough there for them to make a salient point. It’s fear-mongering bullshit that is designed to create a hostile environment for trans people. It’s weak.
McGowan: They spent years demonizing Hunter Biden… And then we're watching, like you said, 23 deals last year, 16 deals this year that the Trump brothers are getting, that they were in businesses they never had. They're buying tungsten mines and AI and drones and all the things that their dad actually makes decisions on.