False reports of explosives found in a car near a Trump rally spread online

[riversedge]

Source: AP

PHILIP MARCELO Updated 11:53 AM CDT, September 18, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Long Island worked quickly on Wednesday to publicly knock down social media posts falsely reporting that explosives had been found in a car near former President Donald Trump’s planned rally in New York.

The false reports of an explosive began circulating hours before the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign event at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, just days after he was apparently the target of a second possible assassination attempt.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said police questioned and detained a person who “may have been training a bomb detection dog,” near the site of the rally and “falsely reported explosives being found.”

Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesperson for the county police, said in follow-up messages that the person, who police have not yet identified, was a civilian and not a member of a law enforcement agency...................





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Leave it to MTG to get her nose involved with this!!





This is a false story, no explosives were found before the Trump Rally. MAGA is creating hysteria to get the cognitively disabled orange threat to democracy re-elected

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[SpankMe]

1. These made-up stories will proliferate exponentially from now until the election. Brace, brace, brace!! n/t

[PSPS]

2. Gotta keep himself in the headlines!

[riversedge]

3. "A person near the rally with a self-trained bomb-detecting dog falsely reported the threat, according to the department

Seems this guy wanted to be a hero!!


@ArtCandee
What’s worse about this “explosive device” fake news that MAGA is pushing about Donald Trump’s Long Island, New York rally:

“A person near the rally with a self-trained bomb-detecting dog falsely reported the threat, according to the department. The person was detained for questioning and the threat was determined unfounded, police said.”

A SELF-TRAINED DOG.

FFS.

Sheer MAGA desperation.

🙄

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[Dennis Donovan]

4. Long-since debunked, but that never stopped the RW Lie Firehose before...

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[IronLionZion]

5. Freepers sharing BS among themselves about a deep state plot

[gab13by13]

6. They keep doing this shit

and they will end up like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

[Harker]

7. The suggestions as to what sort of violence they want perpetrated against us

are coming hot and heavy.

[raccoon]

8. "Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern."

I've been waiting to quote that.

[BlueKota]

9. All they know how to do well is lie

[onetexan]

10. Seems they're trying to make the con a martyr

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Elon Musk trying to help his lard and savior Trump