JD Vance Explains Why They Moved the B-1 Bombers

JD Vance explained why the B-1 bombers were pulled out of RAF Fairford after the potential Iranian threat was averted. The British authorities reportedly couldn’t keep the terrorists locked up.

AMERICA PULLED ITS BOMBERS BECAUSE BRITAIN COULDN’T KEEP THE SUSPECTS LOCKED UP.

Six people were arrested over an alleged plot against RAF Fairford, British officials say Iran likely had a hand in it, and every one of them was released on bail.

JD Vance is right to put our crews first. No American asset should sit next to a threat our ally won’t take seriously.

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 5, 2026

President Trump said the threat lingered, and they had to be moved around.

“We had an idea that there might be a threat,” Trump said shortly before departing the White House for a campaign stop in Grand Island, Nebraska.

“And why would I leave them there? It cost very little money to move them, you know, relatively closely. But no, we had a threat, and if we’re going to be threatened, we’ll just move them, and that sort of alleviates that.”

He wondered how you give bail to a terrorist.

Correction: We accidentally reported the B-1s as B-52s.