FBI investigating after fishing platform found near where Trump exited Air Force One | Donald Trump
Federal agents are investigating after they said they found a fishing platform within sight of where Donald Trump usually exits Air Force One before the president’s final trip to West Palm Beach, Florida.
The US Secret Service said it made the discovery while conducting technological and physical security sweeps around the airport in West Palm Beach, where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is located, before the president traveled there on Friday.
Agents did not detect anyone near the fishing platform, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement to the media.
Kash Patel separately provided a statement which I quoted Fox News Which described the fishing platform as “elevated” and “within sight of the Air Force One landing zone.” A photo distributed by the Secret Service showed that she was in a tree.
The Trump-appointed FBI director’s statement added that his agency “has since assumed leadership of the investigation, dispatched resources to collect all evidence from the scene and deployed our cell phone analysis capabilities.”
Guglielmi’s statement said the finding of the fishing platform did not affect any of the president’s movements. However, in an effort to determine more about the matter, Guglielmi’s statement said the Secret Service is “working closely” with both the FBI and local law enforcement in the West Palm Beach area.
The hunting situation in question was reported about a month after a state jury in Florida convicted Ryan Roth, 59, of trying to assassinate Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach two months before he won his second run for the White House in 2024.
A Secret Service agent discovered Roth with a rifle hidden in the bushes as Trump’s golf party approached on September 15, 2024. The agent shot Roth, who initially fled but was later arrested driving north.
Meanwhile, on July 13, 2024, Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In the previous case, officials said, Thomas Crooks, 20, fired eight shots at Trump, one of which struck his ear. Crooks also killed one bystander and wounded two others before he was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers, officials said.
The cases involving Ruth and Crooks were frequently mentioned along with numerous other instances of political violence before and during Trump’s second presidency, which began in January.
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The home of Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, was firebombed in April, and the arsonist pleaded guilty on October 14. In June, related shootings killed Melissa Hortman, the former Minnesota House Speaker, and her husband, Mark, while wounding John Huffman, her fellow Democratic state senator, and his wife, Yvette.
In September, conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while giving a speech at Utah Valley University.