Overview
- Senior aides kept Trump out of minute-by-minute Situation Room planning as teams worked to recover a downed airman in Iran after an F-15 was shot down on April 3.
- One crew member was found quickly, and the second spent more than 24 hours behind enemy lines before a successful extraction the evening of April 4.
- A senior official credited CIA intelligence with pinpointing the survivor’s location so the Pentagon could plan the pickup.
- The Journal’s sources said Trump yelled at aides and demanded the military “go get them immediately.”
- The White House said he remained a steady leader, and hours after the rescue he posted a profanity-laced warning to Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.