President Donald Trump has confirmed he secretly switched planes when leaving the NATO summit in Turkey last month in an effort to evade a possible Iranian threat.“It's only up to the Secret Service. I just follow what they'd like to do, so I go by Secret Service and the military,” Trump told reporters late Tuesday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. “They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it, I do what they say."When asked about the nature of the “threat,” Trump acknowledged there had been a threat but said he “didn’t really ask too much about it,” adding that he receives “a lot of threats.”The Washington Post first reported Monday that when Trump left Ankara, Turkey, on July 8 and headed to England, although he stepped onto Air Force One in front of the media, he was transferred to a military aircraft via a catering truck in an effort to conceal his exact whereabouts. Several other outlets also carried the story citing unnamed U.S. officials as sources.Video footage of the scene shows a Turkish airport catering truck, understood to be sheltering Trump inside, pulling away from Air Force One.Journalists, alo...







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