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WHCA Meets With Trump Officials After Decoy Flight Raises Press Safety Concerns
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…White House Correspondents’ Association President Jacqui Heinrich shared Tuesday that she met with Trump White House officials after the decoy Air Force One flight to protect the president raised concerns over press safety.
Members of the press and some of the president’s own staff were unwittingly left behind on the old Air Force One amid an assassination threat from Iran.
This conversation addressed concerns stemming from the Washington Post reporting, including “press safety, the ability of the pool to maintain an independent record of the president’s movements and the integrity and credibility of pooled reporting.”
The president of the @WHCA, @JacquiHeinrich, sent out a memo to the WH press corps after meeting with Steven Cheung and other Trump admin officials today about the secret plane switch.
The statement drew criticism online as people pointed to journalists being used as a “decoy target” in the plane switch operation.