WATCH: President Joe Biden's surprise visit Monday (Feb 20) morning to wartime Kyiv began in the dead of night at a military airport hangar outside Washington — unbeknown to the world's media, the Washington political establishment or American voters.
At 4am Sunday — unbeknown to the world's media, the Washington political establishment or American voters — the 80-year-old Democrat boarded an Air Force Boeing 757, known as a C-32.
In this case, though, the usual pool of reporters, which for foreign trips would compromise 13 journalists from radio, TV, photo and written press organizations, was cut to one photographer and one writer. They flew for about seven hours from Washington to the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, for refuelling. Here too, the window shades stayed down and they did not leave the plane.
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