A New York Times photographer on Wednesday revealed several suspicious new details in President Donald Trump‘s plane swap amid a threat.
Douglas Mills, a photojournalist who was on Air Force One with the press corps as the group headed back from Turkey after a NATO summit in July with Trump and several administration officials, told CNN’s Erin Burnett the incident was “alarming” after learning Trump had left the plane in a catering truck.
Burnett mentioned that Mills and other reporters were asked to lower their window shades. And in an interview with reporters after that flight, Trump had commented specifically on window shades.
“Probably on a dangerous flight because of the sleazebags that we have to deal with, it has to be closed,” Trump said. “But if I go, you go, right? Perhaps someday you want to change professions?”
Mills said that comment now has a different meaning.
“In hindsight, I think back on that, wow, if he didn’t, why did they just put our shades down and not his shades up in the front of the plane? So that was kind of a red flag to me mentally,” Mills said. “I felt like obviously we were a decoy. And in that moment, we didn’t know all the facts that we know now.”
Burnett pointed to the window shades, asking if that was a potential giveaway that something irregular was happening.
“Maybe that’s why they had to put your window shades down, right? Because they didn’t want you to see the catering,” she said.
“That’s exactly right,” Mills said.
“By the time we got to the front of the plane, I had taken those pictures of the catering truck on the backside of the plane as we were motoring up,” he said. “And I was shooting pictures through the van that we were driving in. And once we got up and looked out and saw the president was already on board, that kind of also said to me something’s going on.”
This foreign visit was atypical, and Trump ditched his usual goodbye.
“But no, none of that happened this time,” Mills said. “He went up the steps and was on there before we ever got out of our cars. It was unusual. And then once we got up on the plane and the shades had to go down, there were just a lot of questions throughout. And now in hindsight, it was one of those things as a reporter, photographer, you know, that we probably should have been asking more questions about because a lot of things didn’t fit right.”
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