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I haven't seen where anyone actually asked this obvious question, but it could be widespread for all I know.
As we know, a couple weeks ago Don Jr declined his Secret Service detail without explanation and picked it back up a week later after returning from a hunting trip to The Yukon. At least one reporter was able to tail him there aboard an Air Canada flight, so we know that much is true.
It would be easy enough though, to tip off one member of the press to back up the alibi then ditch him at the hunt itself, as the reporter says he met him again at the return flight where he introduced himself.
The Yukon Territory is just a Russian military cargo plane's hop and skip across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Vlad Putin's Summer home, and unless Sarah Palen was looking out her kitchen window, no American could possible have known.
What would Trump do on his junket to Russia? Whether it was to strategize and cut a deal or secure damning evidence, it can't be in the better interests of the America people. Don Jr is the one person The Donald would trust with his life. He even gave him his name.
I hope we don't have to wait until the flood of tell-all books come out from insiders.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)jrthin
(4,833 posts)enough to have him tracked.
OneBlueDotBama
(1,376 posts)Norad would send up two CF 18 Hornets from CFB Cold Lake, Alberta to "escort" any unauthorized Russian aircraft from Canadian or US airspace.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But one bribe of smoked salmon to Grassley and it's "Nothing to see here folks!".
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Weave a submarine rendezvous into it.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)woodsprite
(11,904 posts)Wasn't it just a week or so ago that his plane was parked at an airport near Bedminster again? Thought I remember something about it.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Several times when his plane has been reported close to where the wee lil fucker was, on weekends, the press have been prevented from covering the wlf's movements.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Abouttime
(675 posts)Remember the 1980 October surprise? ghw bush meets the Iranians before the 1980 election in Paris to prolong the release of hostages and doom Carters re-election bid. Bush flew back from Paris on a SR71, an airplane operated by the CIA. Bush was former CIA director. This was the roots of Iran Contra.
Trump Jr probably did go to Russia, we know they are in a panic because They are facing financial ruin and incarceration or worse.
As a last ditch effort to remain in power they are going to start a war on the Korean Peninsula. Don jr needs to run this all by the Russians, he was summoned by his master, Putin.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The SR71 was one of the most stealthy and escapable planes any country has ever flown.
If the CIA coordinates moving someone on a SR71, AND no one at the CIA leaks it, AND no other US gov't agency detects the thing on radar, AND NSA picks up no signals, perhaps they can get out without someone knowing.
But the CIA isn't behind Trump Jr the way they were behind GHWB, their former director. The trumpistas are at war with pretty much every US Govt agency.
NSA and the counterintelligence arm of the FBI are not going to let people meet with Putin undetected. If Jr thinks that the secret service is the only group monitoring him, he is a big moron.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Obvi he did something..and didn't want to be seen.