Trump’s plane divert­ed to Billings, Mon­tana, over mechan­i­cal issue while fly­ing to ral­ly

For­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s plane was divert­ed to Billings, Mon­tana, on Fri­day due to a mechan­i­cal issue, a Billings air­port offi­cial said. The Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee is sched­uled to hold a ral­ly in near­by Boze­man, Mon­tana, Fri­day evening, and is still expect­ed to make it, Fox News has learned. Boze­man is rough­ly 120 miles west of Billings. “I just land­ed in a real­ly beau­ti­ful place: Mon­tana. So beau­ti­ful, fly­ing over, and you just look down and that’s the way it’s sup­posed to be,” Trump said in a video from his plane post­ed to social media, mak­ing no men­tion of any plane issues or of the diver­sion. “I’m here to do some fundrais­ers and most impor­tant to sup­port Tim Shee­hy who’s run­ning for the U.S. Sen­ate, and we think he’s going to do real­ly well. We’re going to have a ral­ly. And it’ll be a lot of …