President Donald Trump told reporters on Oct. 5 that the U.S. military withdrew long-range bombers from the United Kingdom over the belief that the aircraft faced a lingering threat.
“We had an idea that there might be a threat,” Trump said shortly before departing the White House for a campaign stop in Grand Island, Nebraska.
“And why would I leave them there? It cost very little money to move them, you know, relatively closely. But no, we had a threat and if we’re going to be threatened, we’ll just move them and that sort of alleviates that.”
The U.S. Air Force pulled all of its B-1B Lancer bombers from RAF Fairford over the weekend. That move came after law enforcement authorities in the UK responded to a Sept. 27 call about several individuals behaving suspiciously near the base, which has historically hosted U.S. bomber forces….