{"id":304120,"date":"2026-07-23T20:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304120\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:58:13","slug":"us-prosecutors-dropping-new-york-times-subpoenas-over-trump-plane-reporting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/304120\/","title":{"rendered":"US prosecutors dropping New York Times subpoenas over Trump plane reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Donald Trump\u2019s Justice Department will withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns about the president flying on a Qatari-donated Air Force \u200cOne, a prosecutor said at a court hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The subpoenas issued by Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton on July 10 are the latest instance of the Trump administration seeking to force journalists to divulge their sources, part of what critics describe as the president\u2019s broader pressure campaign against the media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US District Judge Arun Subramanian has paused enforcement of the subpoenas pending Thursday\u2019s hearing, which is set for 2pm in Manhattan federal court.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Prosecutors have asked \u2060Subramanian to put the subpoenas on hold for two weeks because next steps in the investigation could factor into his decision, \u200cwhile the Times has asked the judge to throw them out.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Clayton, Trump\u2019s pick to be the next US director of national intelligence, issued the subpoenas after the Times reported that Trump left Turkey \u200con the old Air Force One because a new plane donated by Qatar lacked antimissile and other defensive \u2060features.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Air Force One is seen on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Wednesday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/69ef4147-d593-47aa-9cc0-544566fc599f_e109a831.jpg\" title=\"Air Force One is seen on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Wednesday. Photo: AFP\"\/>Air Force One is seen on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Wednesday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The reports cited anonymous \u2060sources and came as a ceasefire collapsed in the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Justice Department will withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14033,76774,4660,14670,28920,1082,75,9,11,10,980,33406,7059,15945,29462,65842,1069,13094],"class_list":["post-304120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-force","tag-arun-subramanian","tag-first-amendment","tag-iran","tag-jay-clayton","tag-justice-department","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-times","tag-qatar","tag-republican","tag-subpoenas","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-the-washington-post","tag-trump","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}