‘Suspicious occurrence’ found near Donald Trump rally

Police have detained a man for questioning after falsely reporting explosives found near Donald Trump’s campaign rally, just days after a second assassination attempt.

Police downgraded an incident near Donald Trump’s campaign rally to a ‘suspicious occurrence’ after reports of explosives found in a car.

Nassau County Police Department confirmed there were no explosives after responding to the incident about nine hours before Mr Trump was due to take the stage.

It comes after a police source anonymously told One America News Network that Mr Trump’s campaign rally site on Long Island, New York, was breached and that K9 dogs “found an explosive device in one of the vehicles.”

Nassau County Commissioner of Police Patrick Ryde said they responded to the reports and had detained a person for questioning.

Police stand guard before a campaign rally by former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

‘There is a person who is being questioned who may have been training a bomb detection dog near the site,” he told The Daily Mail.

“The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police.’

A US Secret Service spokesman added to Newsweek that the incident “has no nexus to the rally.”

“We co-ordinate with local, state, and other federal entities for these types of visits,” the spokesperson said.

Supporters of Donald Trump wait for the start of his campaign rally at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Picture: AFP

One America News was first to report that a man ran into the woods after driving a suspicious vehicle to the rally site.

“Nassau County Police Department just told me that ‘the perimeter was breached and a blue barrel was removed’ from the area surrounding tonight’s Trump rally site,” Mr Lalino said on X.

“No one saw if he had anything on him, they just saw him take off running. A lot of cars are now parking, they’re lining up on Hempstead Turnpike, just parking on the grass. Even over at Eisenhower Park, they’re just parking over there.”

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Iranian hackers attempted to interest Joe Biden’s campaign in stolen information from Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to Democrats to interfere in the 2024 election.

According to the FBI, there’s no evidence that any recipients responded, which helped prevent the hacked information from surfacing during the crucial final months of the election.

The hackers emailed individuals connected to Biden’s campaign in late June and early July, before he dropped out.

The emails “contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” according to a US government statement.

GEORGE CLOONEY’S BOLD OFFER TO TRUMP

George Clooney has made a bold offer to Donald Trump as their political spat continues.

Clooney wrote an op-ed earlier this year in which he begged Joe Biden - then still a candidate - to drop out of the race to give Democrats a fighting chance.

Mr Trump was furious at the piece and penned a scathing Truth Social post telling the Hollywood A-lister to stick to what he’s good at.

But during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Clooney offered a truce to the presidential candidate - on one condition.

George Clooney has made a bold offer to Donald Trump as their political spat continues.

“You know what, I will stay out of it (politics) if he does,” Clooney said.

Kimmel took it a step further, asking Clooney, 63, if he’d ever thought about writing another op-ed saying Trump should drop out.

“Have you thought about writing an op-ed in the Times asking him to step down because it worked once, why not try it again?,” Kimmel said.

Clooney replied: “He’s a big fan of mine.”

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“Whoever’s helping her, whoever’s coaching her, whoever’s the puppet master running the strings - you’re doing a f*** amazing job,” he said on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.

Speaking comedian Tom Segura, Rogan said: “Whatever they’re doing, whoever is writing those speeches...coaching her. She’s nailing it.”

Rogan went on to say: “The difference in that debate was not a difference in who’s going to have better policies, who’s going to be better for the country.

“The difference in the debate, in my opinion, was who was better prepared.”

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The Secret Service told local law enforcement that they would secure the building where Thomas Crooks shot Donald Trump, according to a bombshell investigation.

“We will take care of it,” agents allegedly told police when asked about the spot where Mr Crooks climbed up to get a clear shot at the former president during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

In a letter to acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, Senator Chuck Grassley asked if there was truth to the claim made by Butler County law enforcement officials and, if so, what the agency did to secure the complex of buildings.

“Butler County law enforcement officials stated that at separate times during the walk-through, when they reiterated their concerns to the agents and counter-sniper about securing the AGR complex buildings, the agents responded: ‘We will take care of it,’” the letter said.

During a Senate hearing, Mr Rowe claimed that “the locals had a plan and that they had been there before”.

The local police, however, maintain that the Secret Service made the commitment to secure the location during a walk-through on July 11, when they raised concerns about the area several times.

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The powerful Teamsters union - which endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 - will not issue an endorsement in the presidential election for the first time since 1996, and for only the second time since 1960.

While Democrats have reliably received their endorsement for years, they were shocked when the union’s General President Sean O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Their 1.3 million members who live mostly in key battleground “blue wall” states could have a major impact on the election outcome, with a recent poll of the rank and file showing they highly favour Trump over Kamala Harris.

Mr O’Brien said “neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business.”

“We sought commitments from both Trump and Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries -- and to honour our members’ right to strike -- but were unable to secure those pledges,” he said.

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The Fed’s decision will affect the rates at which commercial banks lend to consumers and businesses, bringing down the cost of borrowing on everything from mortgages to credit cards.

The news will likely be well-received by Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, who has looked to highlight President Joe Biden’s economic record in her race against Republican Donald Trump.

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