Secret Service found a “suspicious stand” near Florida airport used by Trump, FBI says

Federal officials found what they have described as a “suspicious stand” near an area of Palm Beach International Airport used by Air Force One when President Trump travels to Florida, FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday in a social media post.

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The U.S. Secret Service said in a statement it found “items of interest” while sweeping the area before Mr. Trump’s arrival on Friday. The agency didn’t identify the items, but it shared a photo of what appeared to be a platform set up high in a tree.

“There was no impact to any movements and no individuals were present or involved at the location,” Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said.

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The president flew into the Palm Beach airport on Friday and is set to head back to Washington on Sunday after spending the weekend at his Mar-A-Lago club.

The airport is located less than a mile north of Mr. Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, which was the site of an attempted assassination against the president last year. Prosecutors say Ryan Routh — who was found guilty in the assassination plot last month — pointed a rifle from the golf club’s tree line, but Secret Service agents spotted him and opened fire.

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Mr. Trump survived a separate assassination attempt just two months earlier, when a bullet grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The security breaches drew new scrutiny to the Secret Service, which suspended several agents earlier this year.