The FBI is investigating another potential oversight in President Trump’s security.
FBI Director Kash Patel has shared that Secret Service uncovered a suspicious hunting stand nested in tree with direct line of sight to Trump’s Air Force One when he lands in Palm Beach.
‘Prior to the President’s 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,’ Patel told Fox News Digital.
‘No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene, and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities.’
The stand has not been tied to any individual.
USSS chief of communications Anthony Guglielmi also told Fox that they are ‘ ‘working closely’ with the FBI as well as law enforcement in Palm Beach County.’
Guglielmi also noted that ‘there was no impact to any movements and no individuals were present or involved at the location.’
‘While we are not able to provide details about the specific items or their intent, this incident underscores the importance of our layered security measures,’ Guglielmi also stated.
U. S. President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One on October 17, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. President Trump is spending his weekend at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida
The U.S. Secret Service discovered a hunting stand near the airport President Donald Trump uses in Florida
An additional law enforcement source noted that the stand seems to have been put in place ‘months ago.’
The eyebrow-raising potential lapse by the Secret Service in the president’s security comes less than a month since Ryan Routh was found guilty on all charges related to the September 2024 plot to kill the then-presidential candidate on September 23rd.
Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Routh began stabbing himself in the neck with a pen in a Florida courtroom after jurors reached a unanimous verdict last month.
Routh managed to get close to Trump in September of 2024 as the now-president partook in a round of golf at his Trump International Golf Club property in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Routh was arrested after he was seen holding a rifle through a fence by a Secret Service agent.
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent John Nantz, also now a Townhall columnist, told the Daily Mail in July that Routh shouldn’t have even gotten that close.
‘I have heard that … it wasn’t a scheduled movement, okay. Well, I get that, but I’m not really sure I’m satisfied with that explanation,’ Nantz noted.
‘I think probably at that time, you’re still talking about resource allocation problems,’ Nantz added.
Limited resources were also given as a cause for the lapse in security at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which took place on July 13th, 2024.
Trump was not, at the time, yet the official GOP Presidential nominee.
By September of last year, Trump was allegedly supposed to have already had a Presidential-level detail.
The first major attempt on Trump’s life came in July 13, 2024 during a rally at the Farm Show Grounds in Butler, where 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks perched atop a building just beyond the perimeter gates.
Crooks was able to fire off a series of bullets aimed at Trump’s head – one of which grazed his ear – before officers took him down.
