The New York Times reported that the Presidential Security Service transferred President Donald Trump last Friday night to a secret hideout under the White House intended to face any threat as a precaution because of the approaching protests against the killing of George Floyd last week. What is this secret refuge?
The American magazine "Times" reported that President Trump spent about an hour inside the secret sanctuary designated for emergencies such as terrorist attacks, according to statements by an aide inside the White House, who asked not to be disclosed, because he was not authorized to talk about such sensitive matters.
CNN, quoting a source in law enforcement authorities, reported that the wife of President Melania and their son Baron, 14, was also transferred to the shelter.
The New York Times: Trump was transferred to an underground bunker in the White House last Friday evening, after demonstrators clashed with police and secret service personnel outside the White House and the success of the demonstrators by pulling metal barriers away from the doors of the White House and he remained there for about an hour before returning to the headquarters His residence,
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A second source told the American channel, "If the security situation in the White House is raised to red and the president is transferred to the shelter, then his wife, son, and other members of his family will also be transferred."
The next day, Saturday, President Trump praised the "Secret Service," the official name of the Presidential Security Service, for the demonstrations that took place outside the White House.
The East Wing
and the official name of the secret sanctuary designated for US presidents is the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a bunker-like underground building located in the East Wing of the White House, which is a safe haven and a communications center for the President and other protected persons in emergencies such as wars and attacks Terrorist.
The center contains modern communications equipment, including televisions and telephones, to coordinate with government agencies abroad.
He built the first bunker in the White House during World War II to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the event of an air attack on Washington.
September 11
During the attacks of September 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other senior aides of the President Dick Cheney were transferred to the secret shelter, while the President was in Florida during the attacks.
The American cinema, which is fond of the presidents ’lives, dealt with the issue of transferring the President and his assistant to the secret shelter in a number of films and TV series, including the movie" GI Joe: The emergence of the cobra "released in 2009, and in the movie" Salt "released the following year, and also in the movie The White House Fallout of 2013.
The secret shelter was mentioned in a book published in March 2004 by Richard Clarke, a counterterrorism advisor during the era of President George W. Bush, and the book bore the name "Facing All Enemies" in which he mentioned how senior Bush aides used to the emergency presidential operations center after the attacks. September 11, as they began their meetings and contacts to manage the crisis of these attacks.