{"id":8845,"date":"2025-10-19T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8845\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:36:09","slug":"secret-service-investigating-possible-snipers-nest-with-sight-line-to-trump-air-force-one-arrival-near-palm-beach-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8845\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service investigating possible sniper&#8217;s nest with sight line to Trump Air Force One arrival near Palm Beach airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Secret Service is investigating what could be a sniper\u2019s nest or a hunting stand near an area where President Trump\u2019s Air Force One has recently been kept at Palm Beach International Airport, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The suspicious stand, found Thursday, is in a tree and within the line of sight of the section of the airport where Trump exits the presidential jet, and was described to The Post by law enforcement sources as an odd collection of pipes.<\/p>\n<p>The possible sniper\u2019s nest is seen in a tree near the landing area of Air Force One near Palm Beach International Airport. United States Secret Service<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump exits from Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on February 14, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>There was no ammunition or explosives found, but it raised the service\u2019s alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities do not know yet whether it is a hunting stand or merely junk in a tree \u2014 or has a more nefarious purpose, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The area could be used by hunters who go after invasive green iguanas, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to the president\u2019s return to West Palm Beach, USSS discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone,\u201d FBI Director Kash Patel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-investigates-hunting-stand-sight-line-trumps-air-force-one-exit-area-palm-beach-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told Fox News<\/a>, which first reported the story.<\/p>\n<p>Trump points to a television crew as he walks to board Air Force One as he departs Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo individuals were located at the scene,\u201d Patel said. \u201cThe FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Air Force One is not typically kept at that section of the airport, but recent construction has pushed the plane to an area of the airfield where private planes park \u2014 and about 200 yards from the mysterious hunting stand, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is more of a precaution, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump survived a sniper attack during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 and escaped harm when the Secret Service arrested 59-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh after he fled an apparent sniper spot at Trump\u2019s West Palm Beach golf course on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Secret Service is investigating what could be a sniper\u2019s nest or a hunting stand near an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7628,153,5970,2199,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-8845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-air-force-one","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-fbi","11":"tag-hunting","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}