A story that claimed there were explosives found in a car near the site of a Wednesday afternoon Trump campaign rally in Nassau County, New York, is “fake news,” a senior Trump campaign source told The National Pulse after speaking with the United States Secret Service.The story, first published by the UK-based Daily Mail off the back of a tweet from a One America News (OAN) staffer, claimed cops had found explosives in a vehicle and that the vehicle owner had fled into the woods.
The story, however, was quickly debunked by local authorities and police, with a senior Trump campaign source confirming to The National Pulse that there “is not” an explosive device near the venue, the historic Nassau Coliseum.
The Associated Press’s law enforcement reporter, Mikae Balsamo, tweeted: “Christopher Boyle, a spokesperson for Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, and Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department, both say reports that explosives were found in a car near the site of Donald Trump’s rally on Long Island are false.”
Commissioner of Police Patrick Ryder said: “Reports of explosives being found at the site are unfounded. There is a person who is being questioned who may have been training a bomb detection dog near the site.
“The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found, and that individual is currently being detained by the police.”
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Daily Mail - Cops confirm no threat to Donald Trump's rally following report of 'explosives' found in car (dailymail.co.uk)
Bomb dogs can also detect residual from explosives. Now it's in the interest of the SS to stop any reports of anything, even if legit because they look either incompetent or "in on it" at this point.
