The final spurt in the US election campaign: Donald Trump speaks to his fans in Arizona when an incident puts his security staff on alert - an aircraft enters the exclusion zone without permission.
US President Donald Trump *
is currently touring
Arizona *
.
The election campaign * is entering the final spurt.
An incident has now occurred
in
Bullhead City
.
Trump's security personnel were immediately extremely alarmed.
Bullhead City - The
US election campaign
is in full swing: Only five days left, then
presidential elections * will take
place on
November 3rd
.
US President Donald Trump *
fights online and offline with all means to stay in office and not
to lose
against his
challenger Joe Biden *
, who - if the polls are believed - is ahead.
The
state of Arizona
is traditionally considered a "swing state", which is why Trump uses up his last reserves in the final spurt of the election campaign.
However, one incident now overshadowed one of his campaign events.
His
security
staff took up position, the view of the sky promised something ominous for them: During
Trump's
speech in
Bullhead City
on Wednesday,
an airplane violated
the airspace of the event, which had been cordoned off in advance for the president's appearance.
As the
North American Air Defense Command has
now announced, the aircraft had entered the exclusion zone - and did not respond to radio messages.
2020 US election: jet fighter intercepts plane during Trump speech
This puts
Trump's security personnel on the
ground and in the air on red alert. An
F-16 fighter jet
has been dispatched to bring the situation under control.
Signal lights
were used to warn the pilot of the aircraft.
Only then did he react to the radio messages and maneuver his machine out of the closed airspace "without further incidents" - the
fighter jet
escorted the aircraft to outside the
exclusion
zone and range of the
US President
.
According to CNN, the
Secret Service agents
present on site
reacted
immediately to the incident.
They were apparently moving quickly towards the president but did not take the stage after the situation quickly proved to be in error and the plane turned off.
The
aircraft
was indeed to see at any time of the event, the
fighter jet
was but well heard.
Trump
therefore interrupted his speech, looked up at the sky and assumed that the fighter jet pilot wanted to show off to him.
Trump stages the security incident as a spectacle
TV pictures show the smoke of the fired signal lights, which
visibly pleased
Trump
: “Check it out!
Look, look, look!
Take a look at this: You gave the president a little demonstration. ”The on-site audience was also enthusiastic about the“ performance ”and cheered“ USA! ”
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