WHCA Demands Protocol After Trump’s July 8 Secret Plane Switch Over Iranian Threat
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 12
WHCA Demands Protocol After Trump’s July 8 Secret Plane Switch Over Iranian Threat
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 12
Summary
Jacqui Heinrich told Trump aides on Tuesday that the White House Correspondents’ Association wants a formal protocol for future security emergencies after Trump was secretly moved onto another plane on July 8.
The request followed a Washington Post report that Trump left Turkey on an alternate military aircraft while reporters and officials unknowingly boarded a decoy plane because of an Iranian threat.
WHCA said the deception raised three immediate concerns: press safety, the pool’s ability to keep an independent record of the president’s movements, and the credibility of pooled reporting after the historical record proved wrong for a month.
Heinrich said the group accepts that genuine threats can limit real-time disclosure, but wants a mechanism to correct the record afterward so security needs do not erode trust in White House coverage.