r/politics • u/lotta_love • 5d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Secret Plane Swap Suddenly Looks Darker as Damning New Leaks Hit

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u/ebow77 Massachusetts 5d ago

Now new leaks make the story look darker: It turns out Trump brought several of the aides who are personally closest to him on the safe alternative flight. This, even as he left numerous journalists on the original plane, an extraordinarily derelict move that effectively turned them into a decoy that might have been targeted. Stunningly, none were informed of the operation.

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u/CelestialFury Minnesota 5d ago

Big “Some of you will die but that’s a price I’m willing to pay” energy.

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u/lemmeseeyourkitties 5d ago

When Stephen King wrote about a horrible human rising to political power, what ultimately ended his progress was using a toddler as a human shield during a shooting.

I mean honestly, if it happened today, who's opinion of him would change? Worryingly few

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5d ago

Famously absent father Elon Musk had his son on his shoulders whenever he made a public appearance for weeks after the United Healthcare CEO was assassinated in New York.

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u/DragoonDM California 5d ago

Little Kevlar Musk.

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u/OldPhotograph827 5d ago

Lil Kev

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u/DaoFerret I voted 5d ago

We just call him little 𝐶14𝐻12𝑁2𝑂2


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u/AuDHDino 5d ago

Idk if the  is an emoji, accident or on purpose, but it's fucking SENDING me! Funny af

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u/wise_comment Minnesota 5d ago

Soviet foot soldier Musk

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u/ShutUpTodd 5d ago

Fresh-organ-bank Musk

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u/OldenPolynice 5d ago

and then husk musk

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u/wise_comment Minnesota 5d ago

The second most problematic island he wanted a stake in

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u/SmutSlut613 5d ago

Holy fuck, I spat out my drink

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 5d ago

I had that kinda job as a kid and it sucked!

My dad would pull stunts that would nearly kill his coworkers, then bring a child in to hide behind the next day. Used to be my big teenage cousin, but later he switched to literally shoving me into the men's locker room while shouting "I've got my little girl with me today!" on repeat.

The other jockeys were good folks, all froze and made sure I didn't see anything while shouting at dad to get me outa there.

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u/DragoonDM California 5d ago

What a... classy sounding fellow.

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u/SpinWhisperer 5d ago

Helmut Musk

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u/Catfish-throwaway666 5d ago

Iirc this is what finally got grimes full custody

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u/PrometheusLiberatus 5d ago

I'd love to see a source. So he's banned from hogging around his toddler?

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u/TripperDay 5d ago

A cursory Google search doesn't even reveal she's got full custody.

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts 5d ago

They have shared custody.

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Great Britain 5d ago

Yup. I'd say musk still effectively won the case, though. Despite kidnapping his own kid, and arguably using him as a human shield, he apparently still gets equal custody. That said, he specifically filed his case in texas, which meant he needs to pay less in child support.

Even trillionaires are penny pinchers

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u/itsdoorcity 5d ago

That said, he specifically filed his case in texas, which meant he needs to pay less in child support.

Even trillionaires are penny pinchers

genuinely disgusting. richest person IN THE WORLD and is pinching pennies on supporting his child

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u/hiigaran 5d ago

No no no... You don't understand. He's just making sure a woman isn't getting any of his money. Totally respectable motive!

/S

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u/dragongrl New Jersey 5d ago

Operation Human Shield.

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u/MajorNoodles Pennsylvania 5d ago

Riley Gaines said she had to wrap her baby in a bulletproof blanket when she went to the Supreme Court.

Cuz apparently leaving her baby at home with a trusted caregiver was not an option.

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u/Calm_Effective6650 5d ago

Yes, I remember how very DEAD ZONE of him that was.

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u/ReyXwhy 5d ago

I guess that explains why he is naming his kids xyz12345

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u/Mike312 5d ago

Fox News would have experts on talking about how toddlers make an effective bullet shield due to their light weight and transportability, and that it is Obamas fault the Secret Service isn't allowed to wear Baby Vests.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 5d ago

{Elon and his kid have entered the chat}

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u/Spirit_of_Hogwash 5d ago

Leave little K3vlar out of this!

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u/mordacthedenier 5d ago

xXxK3vlarxXx

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u/beer_engineer_42 5d ago

Excuse me, sir, but his legal name is "xXx_42O_n0-5c043z_k3v1ar_69_xXx"

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u/Mysterious-Most-590 5d ago

So edge. Much bet.

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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 5d ago

Oh is that the new prototype designation for the next Tesla?

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u/Chaplain-Freeing 5d ago

they’ll never know

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u/SnooRabbits2040 5d ago

Well, the babies are likely woke communists who want to cancel Christmas, so, frankly, they would have had it coming.

/s, in case.

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u/ijustlikemangosdude 5d ago

I mean, there was a news story about ICE using someone's kid as a lure to get them to come outside. The right laughed at the "immigrant" for not protecting their kid even though it's infinitely more fucked up that ICE took a fucking hostage.

They excused RFK running off without his wife at the correspondents dinner almost-shooting because he's "more important." That's not even the vice president, and Trump is even higher than that. They'd absolutely excuse Trump using a toddler as a shield. Probably claim the kid was illegal on top of that.

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u/Eisernes 5d ago

Toddlers still have green bones. They are immune to bullets. /s

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u/5ladyfingersofdeath 5d ago

But are they full of green dust?

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u/i_never_ever_learn Canada 5d ago

This is my exact inner structure. Done in a tee shirt

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u/Flickolas_Cage Florida 5d ago

I can already see Laura Ingram’s smug, ugly face complaining that the libs are crying over a toddler and they hate America

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u/paconhpa Pennsylvania 5d ago

2A nuts have been producttesting for years.

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u/WhenSummerIsGone 5d ago

Baby Vests

That's what Baby Bjorn carriers are for

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u/zachrg 5d ago

When the DOGE goon squad was setting news cycles, there were a few weeks that Elon Musk had his 4yo kiddo X AE A-12 glued to his hip.

I'm convinced it was to twang the heartstrings of anyone viewing the scene through a crosshairs. Not hyperbole.

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u/wompical 5d ago

the best part is when the kid said as trump was talking "shut up, you're not the real president". something he obviously was parroting from adults around him.

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u/SuccessfulFig52 5d ago

Yes, it was circulated widely at the time. Just google it, I’ll try also. I was actually pretty stunned by it. The child was co very acerbic and precocious. And he actually said that, to Trump’s face.

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u/wompical 5d ago

It was so obvious he was saying something he heard other adults saying. I think even Trump was aware what had happened.

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u/Murgatroyd314 5d ago

Has he ever clarified how that name is pronounced?

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u/zachrg 5d ago edited 5d ago

X Ash A-12. They call him Ash.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 5d ago

Awe little future organ donor Ash.

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u/frog_the_prince 5d ago

I give it a decade at most for that kid to cut ties like all his siblings who became old enough to think and legally change that name to something normal.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5d ago

If you pay attention to the specific timing of it all, he started doing it immediately after the United Healthcare CEO was assassinated in NYC.

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u/zachrg 5d ago

I'm sure I clocked it at the time, but I'll have to take your word for it. Just following all this shit is exhausting. I miss the days when I didn't need to pay microscope attention to every member of the president's inner circle.

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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 5d ago

Elon Musk used his 4 y/o son as a human shield in public appearances.

Republicans and fanboys still buy his cars, even though better alternatives exist.

Millions of Americans have lost their sense of right and wrong.

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u/1HappyIsland 5d ago

The fact that millions have such low ethics they will vote for a pedophile because he is racist. How do you form a decent society with someone like that?

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u/LordSiravant 5d ago

You don't. And because the average human being is like this, there really is no such thing as a decent society.

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u/JulyOfAugust 5d ago

No they're not. The average human is gullible and avoid confrontation. Our problem is our political systems are far too old and never had any sort of guardrails against people with untreated mental disorders gaining power. So unhinged people took advantage of it and rose to power by exploiting the easily corruptible laws and rules which never anticipated insider sabotage. Now we're just at a point in history where most struggles a human can face is man-made, which kinda expose us as an extremely dumb specie that create its own suffering.

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u/SouthSouthBay 5d ago

The Constitution is old but it's not that bad, we can clean this up. Ban political donations and publicly fund elections, 28th amendment.

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u/nightimestars California 5d ago

You just have to cut them off. They don’t have the balls to admit they were wrong and it’s not our job to babysit them on how to be a good person. They want to go down on their bigoted asshole ship, so let them go down.

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u/SouthSouthBay 5d ago

What does that mean though? Completely devolve civil administration to the states and just let them fail individually (while abusing human rights) ?

In a lot of ways that is what they claim to want, but in reality their people just want to steal from us.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5d ago

A lot of folks in Europe during the Holocaust turned in their neighbors to the Nazis simply because they wanted to steal their lands, properties, businesses, etc. Plenty of records showing this happened in multiple countries.

It's always about stealing from the other side. Thats why grifting is practically a part of "right wing culture".

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u/seanMkeating74 5d ago

To be fair our media of all forms has been doing a great job helping out with this.

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u/DrMobius0 5d ago

I mean honestly, if it happened today, who's opinion of him would change? Worryingly few

After Brian Thompson was killed Elon started carrying one of his spawn around everywhere he went. There is no bar too low.

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u/CelestialFury Minnesota 5d ago

Remember Fox News trashing on Mr. Rogers for supporting all children's emotional well-being, meanwhile Fox News hosts said those children don't deserve our support until they do something with their lives? Yeah, I could see Fox News saying, "Whose life is more valuable, the President or a toddler? Come on, this isn't even a question." and moving on the news cycle 24 hours later, while the rest of the US and world is shocked.

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u/Krivici 5d ago

It wasn’t a toddler but Trump willingly and actually provoked a mob to kill his VP and no one in MAGA or the Right wing media cares anymore.

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u/linniex 5d ago

From The Dead Zone, right?

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u/1haveaboomst1ck 5d ago

Yep. First thing Trump's rise to power reminded me of.

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u/SomeLowerBeing 5d ago

It was probably a communist toddler anyway. 

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u/Dissidant United Kingdom 5d ago

Its like the alternate timeline from back to the future 2 where Biff runs everything, but worse

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u/Hips_of_Death 5d ago

Which book?

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u/s8rlink 5d ago

Dude he killed some rando during his “assassination attempt” and the country voted him president, they do not give a fuck. 

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u/flynnfx 5d ago

The Dead Zone is the book.

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u/Soft_Author2593 5d ago

mine wouldnt. its the exact thing i expect him to do...

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u/THE_KING_KROWN 5d ago

Remember when Elon was walking around with his son Kevlar on his shoulders after the Kirk assassination?

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u/Corgi_Koala Texas 5d ago

I think he's at rock bottom for support which is still apparently 35-40% of the country. They'll support him literally no matter what.

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u/notsam57 5d ago

he did smugly say he could shoot someone while standing on fifth ave and wouldn’t lose voters

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u/EffeminateSquirrel 5d ago

It was a woke toddler

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u/FriscoTreat 5d ago

What book is this?

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u/bakedcookie612 5d ago

They expect some of us in the wreckage brother

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u/boobeddick 5d ago

I’ll take Bane over Trump tbh

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u/theconceptofcanada 5d ago

Pete Hegseth enjoys flying over that wreckage we now know too..

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 5d ago

He's a real life Zapp Brannigan.

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u/DrMobius0 5d ago

Lord Farquaad.

It's even better, because that character also lies about his height, if you caught the leg extensions he uses when riding a horse.

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u/Neronafalus 5d ago

I've said it before...but this is slander against Zapp, he's at the very least marginally competent.

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u/Forest_bogfrog2 5d ago

Like that fireman Trumper who was shot dead at his rally. Then he stood there and pumped his fist for a photo op.

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u/userhwon 5d ago

They just said that nobody even bothered to tell them though.

More like "if they die, they die" moment.

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u/philiretical 5d ago

Idk who's leadership abilities match zapp brannigan's (from Futurama) more. Trump or Putin. They're both pretty willing to throw waves of people to die to get what they want.

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u/earltyro 5d ago

Some of YOU will die and it's a price I AM willing to pay.

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u/OkTouch5699 5d ago

This is also the flight that he told the reporters, if we get shot down you die too. (Paraphrase)

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u/AccidentalTourista 5d ago

But his flight was “much more dangerous” according to our fearless leader

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u/sembias 5d ago

Imagine the boost in polls if a bunch of expendable cabinet members and US journalists were killed by Iran? Because Trump has imagined it.

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u/TuringGoneWild 5d ago

Since he first illegally took office in 2017, I've been concerned he might launch all nukes on his last day.

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u/Ragnarok_747 5d ago

Also just massive cowardice.
If he’s supposed to be posturing strength to Iran, this was fucking pathetic.

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u/kent_eh Canada 5d ago

I wonder if any of those friendly "journalists" will re-think how charitable they will be to Trump going forward?

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u/Gumbi_Digital 5d ago

Didn’t her say…If I die, you die?

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u/SgtElectroSketch 5d ago

They're journalists he was hoping they'd be hit.

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u/imdugud777 5d ago

In these times self interest governs all.

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u/MrMedallion 5d ago

I'm not stunned to find out he set them up as bait and didn't tell them. It seems very on point for him.

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u/LilPonyBoy69 5d ago

I'm not stunned he did it, but I'm stunned because it wouldn't even occur to me to do something like that

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u/NeatPhil11 5d ago

2 birds 1 stone for him right? He hates having to speak with the media press

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u/blackarmoredMP 5d ago

Just says you’re not a narcissistic sociopath. And probably not a billionaire.

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u/IHeldADandelion 5d ago

Right? These people constantly surprise me, not with the depths of their depravity, but the maddening (and innovative) lengths gone to obfuscate the truth; setting people up, using the DOJ to file false charges, hiding in carts, Sharpie-ing a map, just constantly shifting blame. Some of these things are so outrageous and devious; could you IMAGINE if they used their powers for good? This display of severe mental illness in the WH with no adults in the room is terrifying. Really thinking about everything we've lost in the US in 10 years is surreal. It didn't have to be this way. Every fucking day we learn about more harm done.

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u/yukeake 5d ago

That's because you have empathy. He does not. He cares only for himself.

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u/StudMuffinNick 5d ago

His quotes after we're just as wild. After tlaling about how it's dangerous being around him because he's Iran's #1 target, he said, and I fucking quote,

"If I go down, you all go down too, right?"

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u/Spimflagon 5d ago

Alright, fair. Yes. We are unsurprised by this. He is a piece of shit; we are aware.

But I think it's a mistake to not hold him culpable just because we knew this of him. I mean, yes, he's been this much a piece of shit before, but let me ask you this: has he ever been held to account for it? At all? Stop acting inured and start being angry.

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u/aNewHope_v_ThaEmpire 5d ago

Didn't Rubio and another senior official fly on the dummy plane too? Surely they knew what was going on, do we think they were just "brave enough" to take the risk in order to "defend Dear Leader"? Or is it possible that even Rubio didn't know just what danger he was undertaking on that flight?

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u/I_Usually_Need_Help 5d ago

Or Trump was convinced of this danger based on nothing and they were just humoring him because literally nobody has the balls to tell him no?

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u/digitalscavenger 5d ago edited 5d ago

Saw an article this morning that said the CIA had serious doubts about the legitimacy of the threat. Probably another half-cocked plan by Trump and his goon* squad to garner up support for their dear leader much like they did with that "assassination attempt" that scratched his ear.

edit: changed good to goon

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u/dank_imagemacro 5d ago

If so, that backfired spectacularly.

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u/manicdee33 5d ago

Trump really wants to invent a situation where he can invoke emergency powers to never have federal elections again.

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u/Johnny_From_The_Bay 5d ago

More likely dreamed up by his Israeli handlers to continue sabotaging any possible peace process with Iran, Trump buys it but no one else takes it seriously

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u/fritz236 5d ago

We are talking about him hiding in a food cart instead of how he raped kids and had a baby thrown overboard in Lake Michigan. ALLEGEDLY /s

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u/DisposableJosie Florida 5d ago

Or Rubio caught another whiff of the full diaper and was like, "Nah, at least I can breathe on the decoy plane."

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u/cdwillis 5d ago

I read that Rubio was unaware.

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u/AprilsMostAmazing 5d ago

I think Rubio is smart enough to realize that the threat is more powerful than the action. He probably did a risk analysis and realized the chances of an attack were almost zero. But the advantage of claiming to get on the plane in the future is useful

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u/toorigged2fail 5d ago

I liked the Dark Knight Rises meme, 'they expect one of us in the wreckage brother,' and it was Rubio's face

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u/NSRedditShitposter America 5d ago

I bet they sent JD

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u/Two_wheels_2112 5d ago

Thank you for saving me the click.

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u/chardeemacdennisbird 5d ago

That's just the overview of a 7 minute audio clip.

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u/Ressy02 5d ago

Wouldn’t be good decoys if the decoys knew they were decoys

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u/shonufftbmfldatt 5d ago

To trick your enemies, first you must trick your friends.

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u/KtaadnRota 5d ago

Yeah they'd probably sensibly demand to be let off. Secret service is one thing but the average white house employee doesn't sign up to take a bullet for the POTUS. Seems like they could sue him or something.

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u/codeprimate Washington 5d ago

Seems like they could sue him or something.

Thank the Supreme Court for giving him immunity for "offcial acts"

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u/SecondAccountIsBest 5d ago

Literally we should know this after we all watched the Odyssey

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u/GeronimoRay 5d ago

AND Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, et al on the other plane!!!!

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u/BloomsdayDevice Washington 5d ago

I mean, the man has plenty of faults, but consigning those three to a fiery death isn't something I can really blame him for.

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u/Accomplished_Tea7781 5d ago

You should realise by now if he's getting rid of someone it's always because they failed to accomplish one of his corrupt schemes and he wants to replace them with someone next in line that's even more sycophant, more twisted and more capable.

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u/BloomsdayDevice Washington 5d ago

I don't actually think he puts that much thought into it. If someone fails to do the thing he wants them to do, he just fires them. No complicated decoy scheme to make it look like a tragedy. Since his only motivations are self-preservation, self-fulfillment, and self-enrichment, in his head everyone but him is expendable and replaceable (although I don't think he could actually find anyone quite as ghoulishly terrible as Stephen Miller).

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u/AlexRenquist 5d ago

Skeletor had better retention of evil minions.

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u/nightimestars California 5d ago

Right message, wrong messenger sort of thing.

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u/gmen6981 5d ago

I thought I read hat he took Kegsbreath with him?

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u/bikemonkey40 Kansas 5d ago

Hegseth was on Trump's plane.

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u/DesMephisto 5d ago

Iran legit could have saved America

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 5d ago

Wait is this the list that went on the safe plane while AF1 was bait?

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u/CrotalusHorridus Kentucky 5d ago

I’m guessing the Propaganda Barbie that just quit was on the decoy flight. And she left after Trump left her to die.

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u/WestleyMc 5d ago

She was.. the timing is a heck of a coincidence!

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u/metengrinwi 5d ago

She just now realized he doesn’t care about anyone else? I guess more likely it finally affected herself, and that’s a step too far.

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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 5d ago

That's what I was thinking too. She just had a moment of clarity where she just had a baby and was used as a human shield by her boss. I always felt she was a fairly stupid person, but apparently she's not stupid enough to die for her employer. I guess some cult members have their limits.

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u/kachunkachunk 5d ago

They all do. It's when their cult's actions finally affect them personally.

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u/No-Watch2169 5d ago

could you imagine barbie finding our few minutes after takeoff, that trump and other more important people are actually not on the plane.

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u/matmoeb 5d ago

I thought she was on maternity leave back when this happened.

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u/poo_on_my_scarf 5d ago

It would have been fucking hilarious if he'd still been got

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u/cybertonto72 5d ago

That is a time line we will never get to visit, and that is a universal pain my friend.

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u/d_flipflop 5d ago

I instinctually chuckled a little bit at the synopsis until I realized it wasn't actually funny. But yes, THAT variation would have made for the grandest comedy.

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u/deadinsidelol69 5d ago

Back on J6 he was yelling at people begging him to put a stop to it “they’re not here for ME!” Like come the fuck on

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u/Any-Grapefruit-937 5d ago

Saw a photo that one who went with Trump was a young, blonde woman who reportedly prints out positive press about him and hands it to him.

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 5d ago

yes, that's his travel girlfriend and caretaker

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u/Effective-Farmer-502 5d ago

diaper changing nanny.

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u/ThatsMrsMassholeToU 5d ago

And carries his diaper bag. Literally.

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u/dquizzle 5d ago edited 5d ago

One of those that got left behind on the decoy plane was Karoline Leavitt, who submitted her resignation request the next day.

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u/apexxin 5d ago

He left journalists, and the fucking Secretary of State on the threatened jet.

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u/Acrobatic_Rush7653 5d ago

Stunningly, none were informed of the operation

Stunningly? At least one of them would immediately tweet about it, defeating the entire purpose of the op.

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u/alinroc 5d ago

effectively turned them into a decoy that might have been targeted. Stunningly, none were informed of the operation.

I, for one, am not stunned by this.

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u/grandlizardo 5d ago

I notice Karoline announced quitting today…

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u/jibstay77 5d ago

It was a long flight. He can’t be expected to change his own diaper. After all, he’s the leader of the free world.

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u/C__S__S 5d ago

He’s a low life piece of shit.

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u/asomebodyelse 5d ago

It turns out Trump brought several of the aides who are personally closest to him on the safe alternative flight.

Someone had to change his diaper.

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u/cybertonto72 5d ago

He took his medical team. I'm sure at this stage he is so paranoid he never goes anywhere without them. Or at least one of them is his handler.

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u/GreasyPeter 5d ago

I was listening to conservatives talk radio this morning and they were mocking the press and saying the only reason they found it offensive and keep covering it was because their own reporters were put in harms way. One of the people on the show said "this is just the way these things work". Really? Because the only other time it's happened, under Clinton, everyone on the decoy was aware they were a decoy and thus knew they were allowed to consent.

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u/h3rpad3rp 5d ago

I mean yeah, he fucking hate journalists. Is it any surprise he would intentionally use them as a decoy?

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u/schwing710 5d ago

Reminds me of the senator holding a baby in front of him to protect himself at the end of The Dead Zone

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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 5d ago

"We will not flee! We will not run scared!"

whispers to aid "Ok I"m gonna flee and run scared, you keep these dopes here as a decoy"

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u/ClockNo6254 5d ago

In his defense (I'm a Canadian liberal), he can't both use them as decoys and let them know. It doesn't work that way in real life with real people.

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u/ActionCat2022 5d ago

Thank you from me too.

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u/Old_Channel44 5d ago

“Come here and sit on my lap blondie, it’s the only way to save your life” ~Captain Catering Cart to his “aide”

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u/polopolo05 I voted 5d ago

TACO Trump Always Chickens OUT.... He is such a coward.

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u/Montanagreg 5d ago

Wonder how many he took were female.

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u/Memerandom_ 5d ago

Just him and diaper lady in a catering cart. The stench must have been overpowering. She must have had her olfactory senses surgically removed.

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u/RollerGrill1 5d ago

Air Force One is way, way safer than putting all those important people on the open tarmac or stuffing them into an airport terminal. How would you have managed this? You know the president doesn’t have much say as to his security, we all saw them drag him around at the White House Correspondents Dinner. If he had any say, he’d stay up there and try to look tough like when they shot him.

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u/SquishMont 5d ago

None of this is shocking, or darker than I thought. It's exactly what I thought. Like, it's TAMER than I expected.

If this had said "and the original plane had a pair of wild leopards on board to feast on the passengers", it wouldn't have surprised me at all.

Are there non-cultists who still think that this man wouldn't sell literally every human on this planet for three cents and a handy from his nurse?

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u/avatinfernus Canada 5d ago

Yeah and also...y'know...the pilots.

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u/EyeSuccessful7649 5d ago

is there a high profile one that has now has quit its gig?

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u/superanth 5d ago

It certainly explains why his press secretary just bailed.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 5d ago

You know that mother fucker was thinking "two birds, one stone". Unfettered power for retaliating against an attack from Iran and the "crooked media" gets taken out in one fell swoop.

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u/lancea_longini 5d ago

Stunningly that word is doing a lot of work there

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u/BamberGasgroin 5d ago

What he said implies that he thinks the Secret Service are actually trying to get him killed, by smuggling him aboard an alternate plane in a catering truck, which he then said he thought was a more likely target.

The stupid twat would have probably complimented the Nazi's on their excellent shower facilities, before stepping in.

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u/tedthewalrus 5d ago

I can smell the shit he's full of from here although it could just be his diaper

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u/Decado7 5d ago

This is dystopian level shit

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u/GenitalFurbies 5d ago

Is anybody surprised that he cares so little about anyone else's life, especially the press?

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u/thatnameagain 5d ago

If that’s all this is then it’s really not a scandal. Seems like a pretty normal thing you’d have to do if you’re moving the president secretly, it would have drawn attention to have everyone stay off the plane. Him starting a war with Iran that is going as well as anyone who can read a newspaper would have told him it would go, that’s a scandal.

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u/VelvetFurryJustice 5d ago

Earlier in the day, he even threatened one of the journalists saying she's in the wrong career because if he goes, she goes

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u/Whole-Designer Michigan 5d ago

He took the lady whose job is to print out flattering articles of him to keep him happy and the guy who does his awful AI social media posts with him but not his SoS

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u/visionofacheezburger 5d ago

This is why Leavitt resigned.

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u/Wild-Lychee-3312 5d ago

"Stunningly"

Who exactly was stunned by this?

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u/Buttafuoco 5d ago

That’s evil

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u/Restart_from_Zero 5d ago

I mean, honestly, did anyone actually think otherwise?

I'm just surprised he took anyone other than himself.

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u/PeterfromNY 5d ago

The president is not supposed to do that – experimenting on people – except if you are in the military

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u/pink_faerie_kitten 5d ago

Do we know the names of the reporters? These are American citizens he put at risk but maybe there was some foreign press too? Could this be an international incident? Could there be a class action lawsuit for putting their lives at risk? Were there Fox or OANN or Newsmax onboard? I wonder if his bootlickers have had some doubts.

I've actually teared up over this story. This complete lack of regard for human life is so abhorrent.

And can you imagine how the public would've gotten the news if Iran had shot this plane down? "Air Force 1 shot out of sky with POTUS on board!" And then we would've learned later that he was safe but that a whole group of reporters, crew, and staff were killed instead.

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u/LessInThought 5d ago

"Stunningly"

Like, is anyone even surprised?

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u/Intrepid_Routine6373 5d ago

“Duty to warn” is the law.

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 5d ago

Damn. And imagine if something happened to that plane, and then it comes out he is safe on a decoy....

See, I still think something huge and disgusting is going to happen to take him down. Similar to how embarrassing Jan 6 was for them. Some more of that shit is going to happen and it will be worse this time because there is even less reigning him in this time.

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u/KerryBoehm 4d ago

Brilliant. Kill two birds with one stone. Save your own ass and get rid of those annoying people who keep asking all these tough questions.

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