Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. It’s Emily. Yasmin will be back next week. We start today with the elaborate ruse to keep President Donald Trump’s location a secret last month as he was whisked out of Turkey via catering truck and clandestine flight. Seriously. Let’s get into it.
White House correspondent Monica Alba was covering the president’s trip to the NATO summit in Ankara last month when she sensed something was awry. She said then that it was bizarre that Trump was leaving via his older Air Force One, the name for the plane carrying the president, rather than his newer, Qatari-gifted aircraft.
