The Secret Service locked down the White House front lawn on Tuesday and quickly escorted members of the press to the briefing room following a reported security incident, according to multiple sources.
The Times of India and others eventually reported that a “phone” had been tossed over the fence along the front lawn.
The Secret Service quickly called a lockdown of the park and White House and closed off Pennsylvania Avenue.
Reporters gathered outside were hurried into the briefing room without explanation. About 30 minutes later, the Secret Service issued an all-clear, allowing press members to return to the North Lawn.
“Somebody threw their phone over the fence,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. She did not provide any further details.
The incident occurred just a few days after the one-year anniversary of the first assassination attempt against now-President Donald Trump. A bullet grazed his right ear during a rally in Butler, Pa., while other shots killed one man seated behind him and wounded two others. The would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper team.
Meanwhile, the FBI has discreetly initiated a significant investigation into what sources describe as a decade-long Democratic and deep-state operation, spanning from Russia collusion to Jack Smith.
The probe could potentially pave the way for a special prosecutor to intervene and uncover a potential coordinated criminal conspiracy aimed at disrupting three U.S. elections and harming Trump, as well as hamper him with scandal after he won his first term.
Internally referred to as a “grand conspiracy,” the FBI opened the case several weeks ago following the appointment of new Director Kash Patel.
Sources said to Just the News that the probe could accelerate if Trump declassifies two critical sets of evidence tied to the summer of 2016, which some insiders believe could be the spark that ignited the entire operation.
One of those documents is a classified annex from the long-buried inspector general’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Senator Chuck Grassley has requested the annex, believed to reveal the FBI’s deliberate disregard for credible evidence of potential criminal conduct.
Special Counsel John Durham buried the other document in the classified appendix of his final report on Russiagate. Durham flagged it as “Clinton plan intelligence”—evidence that the CIA was aware the Clinton campaign was working to invent a Trump-Russia collusion narrative before the FBI even launched the Crossfire Hurricane probe. That probe relied heavily on discredited material generated by Clinton allies.
Both pieces of evidence have been locked away for nearly ten years under classification rules that protect intelligence methods. But insiders say they also shield the government from serious accountability.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently released a harsh assessment of the intelligence community’s handling of 2016 election interference. He specifically criticized former CIA Director John Brennan for pushing Steele’s phony Trump dossier into official channels.
Ratcliffe accused Brennan of valuing “narrative consistency” over actual intelligence analysis and later posted online that the entire process was “atypical and corrupt” under Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
If Trump declassifies the Grassley and Durham documents, prosecutors could present them to a grand jury as evidence of a pattern—intelligence agencies covering for Democrats while weaponizing flawed or manufactured material to go after Trump.
The Trump team is also weighing a special counsel to investigate bombshell allegations reported by Just the News that the FBI received intelligence in August 2020 that China was attempting to flood the U.S. with fake mail-in ballots to help Joe Biden win.
Not only did the FBI fail to act, they reportedly recalled the intel and told other agencies to destroy it, the report said.