Federal officers discovered what they’ve described as a “suspicious stand” close to an space of Palm Seaside Worldwide Airport utilized by Air Pressure One when President Trump travels to Florida, FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday in a social media put up.
The U.S. Secret Service stated in an announcement it discovered “gadgets of curiosity” whereas sweeping the realm earlier than Mr. Trump’s arrival on Friday. The company did not determine the gadgets, but it surely shared a photograph of what seemed to be a platform or looking stand arrange excessive in a tree.
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“There was no influence to any actions and no people have been current or concerned on the location,” Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi stated.
A number of sources informed CBS Information that the looking stand had been there for months. Mr. Trump was not utilizing that a part of the airport previously yr as a consequence of development, so it might not have been a part of the Secret Service’s sweeps of the location.
As soon as development ended, the Secret Service began utilizing that space of the airport, and the stand was found instantly in its preliminary sweeps, the sources stated.
It was not instantly clear when development ended.
The president flew into the Palm Seaside airport on Friday and is about to move again to Washington on Sunday after spending the weekend at his Mar-A-Lago membership.
The airport is situated lower than a mile north of Mr. Trump’s golf membership in West Palm Seaside, which was the location of an tried assassination towards the president final yr. Prosecutors say Ryan Routh — who was found guilty within the assassination plot final month — pointed a rifle from the golf membership’s tree line, however Secret Service brokers noticed him and opened hearth.
Mr. Trump survived a separate assassination try simply two months earlier, when a bullet grazed his ear throughout a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The safety breaches drew new scrutiny to the Secret Service, which suspended several agents earlier this yr.
