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Federal officials found a "suspicious stand" near the area used by Air Force One when President Trump travels to Florida, FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday.
The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday discovered a suspicious hunting stand near Palm Beach International Airport with a direct sight line to where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One, the agency confirmed to NBC News on Sunday.
The U.S. Secret Service and FBI are investigating a mysterious hunting stand found on Thursday near the West Palm Beach airport facing where the exit to Air Force One would be. The Secret Service says there is no threat to the President and it was discovered in initial sweeps of the area before Trump arrived.
The US Secret Service found a “suspicious” hunting stand within sight of the Air Force One landing zone ahead of the president’s arrival in Florida over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel said, adding no one was at the stand.
Sean Curran knew he had his work cut out for him when he agreed to head the Secret Service and help the troubled agency recover its reputation. Two assassination attempts against Donald Trump – and the less-than-candid response by the agency brass – had sullied the reputation of the once-storied agency and led to a raft of questions on Capitol Hill about whether the Secret Service had lost sight of its very purpose.
Early analysis shows the network was used for communication between foreign governments and individuals known to U.S. law enforcement.
The Secret Service announced Tuesday that it disrupted "multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials."
The training will take place the evening of Oct. 14 and during the day Oct. 15, Palm Beach officials said in an alert.
The rogue cellular network spanned '100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites,' and was used to make fake calls to US officials, including swatting threats.
Dozens of U.S. Secret Service officers assigned to protect President Donald Trump have been sidelined by COVID-19, the Washington Post and New York Times reported on Friday as the coronavirus outbreak spread at the White House.
The Secret Service and FDOT placed the traffic signal as a safety measure for pedestrians and vehicles crossing Southern Boulevard, an official said.