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Russian spy plane trolls Trump with flight over D.C., New Jersey
By KATHRYN A. WOLFE and BRYAN BENDER
08/09/2017 04:14 PM EDT
Updated 08/09/2017 05:39 PM EDT
A Russian military spy plane cruised the skies over Washington and New Jersey on Wednesday — in a perfectly legal bit of aerial reconnaissance that nonetheless appeared to be an attempt to troll President Donald Trump.
A 1992 agreement known as the Treaty on Open Skies allows each country to conduct surveillance flights over the other's territory, something the U.S. and Russia have done a combined 165 times over the past 15 years, according to the State Department.
But Russia's choice of targets this go-round have a decidedly Trumpian flavor, taking the spy plane over Trump's current hometown of Washington, D.C., and past Bedminster, N.J., where the president is vacationing at one of his golf clubs, according to a flight-tracking website monitored by POLITICO.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/09/russia-military-spy-plane-dc-241455?lo=ap_b1