President Donald Trump placed his hand on the scale in a behind-the-scenes debate over whether a Cabinet official was allowed to fly in a fighter jet for the president’s Fourth of July flyover.
Trump himself stepped in to resolve a dispute about whether acting Attorney General Todd Blanche would be able to ride along with NASA administrator Jared Issacman in a vintage fighter jet for the July Fourth air show in Washington, despite objections from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, according to The Washington Post.
Issacman, a billionaire aviation enthusiast with a fleet of private aircraft, submitted a request to the Federal Aviation Administration in June to fly his personal collection of Northrop Grumman F-5 Tiger II jets, which were introduced in 1972, as part of Saturday’s nine-hour air show.
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