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Reporters confront Trump's chilling game of smoke and mirrors

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Last week, one of the top news stories was the U.S. Secret Service's use of a decoy plane in Turkey in response to a reported Iranian assassination plot against President Donald Trump — who, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post, wasn't really on the Air Force One plane that Trump officials said he was on. Now, Jacqui Heinrich, president of the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), is speaking candidly about the decoy plane and the implications for the press. "It was a shock to learn," Heinrich told New York Magazine's Michael Calderone. In New York Magazine, Calderone explains, "Heinrich, who serves as senior correspondent at Fox News and anchor of The Sunday Briefing, began her one-year term as president following last month's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner, which she'll be in charge of next spring. I spoke to Heinrich about how she’s responding to the press being kept in the dark about the president's whereabouts." Heinrich, during the int