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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump’s plane-swap guests included Natalie Harp, whose brother called relationship ‘unhealthy.’ He left Marco Rubio on decoy

President Donald Trump left his top diplomat, the head of the Treasury Department and the White House press pool to risk a grisly death from a possible Iranian missile attack while he jetted home from Turkey last month with a young female staffer who never seems to leave his side among just a small handful of passengers on the secretive flight.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the catering truck that spirited Trump away from the modified 747 he’d boarded moments earlier while returning from Turkey after this year’s NATO summit had three other passengers who joined him for the covert flight aboard a C-32A — a military version of the Boeing 757 — that was being used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the time.

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