U.S. Justice Department withdraws NY Times subpoenas over Trump plane report
Justice Department on Thursday (July 23, 2026) withdrew subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters over a story they wrote about security concerns with a plane donated to U.S. Trump complained about the state of the two aging jets that have served as the official U.S. presidential planes since 1990.Mr. Trump took his first flight on the retrofitted Boeing 747-8 plane on July 1, but questions swirled after he took an older jet home from a NATO meeting in Ankara on July 10.Turkey borders Iran, and hostilities between Washington and Tehran had flared up again at the time.Mr.
- ▪Justice Department on Thursday (July 23, 2026) withdrew subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters over a story they wrote about security concerns with a plane donated to U.S.
- ▪Trump complained about the state of the two aging jets that have served as the official U.S. presidential planes since 1990.Mr.
- ▪Trump took his first flight on the retrofitted Boeing 747-8 plane on July 1, but questions swirled after he took an older jet home from a NATO meeting in Ankara on July 10.Turkey borders Iran, and hostilities between Washington and Tehran h
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The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday (July 23, 2026) withdrew subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters over a story they wrote about security concerns with a plane donated to U.S. President Donald Trump by Qatar.The Times said federal prosecutors agreed at a court hearing in New York before District Judge Arun Subramanian to "unilaterally withdraw the subpoenas at this time."The newspaper had challenged the government requests for phone records of reporters and grand jury testimony as an attempt to "intimidate" the press and filed a motion to have them quashed.
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