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White House goes ballistic on embarrassing MS NOW report

The Plane Was the Story. The Cover-Up Was the Point.The Real Power Is Still in the White HouseThe reporting here is simple enough: Trump reportedly ditched the $400 million Qatari jet for the old Air Force One on a trip from the NATO summit in Turkey to the U.K., apparently because the gifted plane lacked the defensive systems needed for safe travel amid Iran hostilities. That is the factual center. Everything else is noise.What matters politically is who had the authority to make the decision and who benefits from obscuring it. Trump is the president. The plane is the presidency’s problem…

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