Breaking but unconfirmed reports claimed police found explosives near the site of Donald Trump’s rally Wednesday in Long Island, New York.

“Police reportedly found ‘explosives’ in car near former President Donald Trump’s rally site on Long Island ahead of his speech Wednesday evening. Sources in the Nassau County Police Department allegedly told One America News Network journalist James Lalino that the rally site ‘perimeter was breached and a blue barrel was removed,'” Chief Nerd posted, citing Daily Mail.

“In addition, during the K9 sweep they apparently ‘found an explosive device in one of the vehicles.’ The sources allegedly said the driver ended up running into the woods,” the post added.

However, officials said those reports were “unfounded.”

Nassau County police responded to a “suspicious occurrence” but found no explosives.

“We did respond to a suspicious occurrence in the vicinity of the Nassau Coliseum, however there was no validity of an explosive device being found,” a public information officer told Newsweek.

“We’re unsure where this information originated, but we can confirm that no explosives were discovered,” the officer added.

Per Newsweek:

Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is set to hold a campaign rally at 7 p.m. in Uniondale, New York, at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The rally comes just three days after a suspected second assassination attempt on Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspect, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, was arrested on Sunday.

The Trump campaign also called the reports “fake news.”

The National Pulse reports:

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.”

 

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