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Just two other aides and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are known to have joined the president, as Secretaries of State and Treasury Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent, along with the press corps, remained on the decoy Air Force One flight out of Turkey

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President Donald Trump left his top diplomat, the head of the Treasury Department and the White House press pool to risk a grisly death from a possible Iranian missile attack while he jetted home from Turkey last month with a young female staffer who never seems to leave his side among just a small handful of passengers on the secretive flight.