President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday.
Here’s what we’re following:President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat that he insisted didn’t scare him.Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment. Flanagan defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig with a pledge to fight the influence of corporations and confront Trump.Doctors say Trump’s new executive order on vaccines is misguided and likely to stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school.
Pelosi says she never told Biden not to run, but did want him to share medical info
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi spoke more openly than she ever has about her private conversation with then-President Joe Biden ahead of his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.“I didn’t ask him not to run, anything like that,” she said during a Politico event in Sacramento.“I only said to President Biden, I’ve come to question the polling that you have and how your campaign is being conducted, I think there has to be a better campaign to win the White House,” she said.“And I did say this, I think the public would like to hear that you’ve had testing that demonstrates that you can serve,” she said.She said she was speaking for the first time about the situation because much of what has been reported about her role was written in a way that did not really happen.She described the private conversation, which she said was just the two of them, without aides until he patched one in on the phone to discuss her push to bring in other pollsters.
