Robert “Buzz” Patterson isn’t a talking head. He flew combat support missions into Sarajevo. He carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton for two years. He knows exactly how presidential security operations work — how many people are in the loop, how tightly compartmentalized the information is, and how few people could have known what happened in Turkey when President Trump was rerouted from flying on Air Force One to a secret jet after U.S. intelligence learned of a credible Iranian plot against his life.
The operation itself was brilliant — Patterson said so explicitly, and he wishes he could have been part of it. Trump was seen publicly boarding Air Force One in Turkey while Iranian assassination threats were active. He was secretly transferred to a different military aircraft via a catering truck — a sleight of hand that Patterson confirmed is a standard, long-established presidential security tactic used by multiple administrations including Clinton’s
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