Posted on 02/19/2018 9:26:51 AM PST by CMB_polarization
"...Driver was not allowed onto club property so a White House staffer drove the van instead. White House staff said all drivers were replaced after the incident. When press loaded back into vans, driver was being questioned by an officer..."
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Today 10:54am
*From:* Jordan Fabian *Date:* February 19, 2018 at 9:12:37 AM EST *Subject:**Travel print pool report #2 - Trump International Golf Club*
The presidential motorcade was rolling from Mar-a-Lago at 8:55 AM. Pool did not see POTUS enter motorcade.
Motorcade pulled into Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach at 9:09 AM.
Press vans broke off to hold at lounge at Palm Beach International Airport.
No word on the presidents activities at the golf club. Trump skipped golf the past two days in the wake of last weeks school shooting.
Pool has not laid eyes on POTUS since Friday night, when he met with injured victims and first responders from the Parkland shooting.
Press had an eventful morning before entering Mar-a-Lago:
Driver of one of the press pool vans was detained during security screening for what he said was a personal firearm found in his baggage. Driver said he forgot to leave the firearm inside his personal vehicle before entering van.
Screening took place off club grounds in parking lot across the street and roughly an hour before press vans joined up with presidential motorcade.
Driver was not allowed onto club property so a White House staffer drove the van instead. White House staff said all drivers were replaced after the incident. When press loaded back into vans, driver was being questioned by an officer.
When on club grounds, another van grazed a Secret Service vehicle in the parking lot. Damage to vehicles appeared to be very minor and no one was hurt.
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OMG could press reporters be sleepers? How can this happen?
Somebody trying to make a point.
Sounds like good cover
Grazed or intentionally rammed the Secret Service vehicle hoping it was Trump? Carrying a gun around Trump is definitely intentional.
Testing Secret Service response.
Terrifying considering how unhinged leftist media is.
Especially after the news of last week, everybody’s awareness is heightened. The driver will probably be making the rounds of the morning talk shows.
Good catch.
I’ve always wondered how the Secret Service checks the cameras and big microphones that are near the President.
>>Testing Secret Service response
maybe we’re un-trusting conspiracy nuts....
But that was my first thought as well.
Someone is probing for a weakness.
If YOU were driving around a bunch of Communist sympathizers, wouldn’t YOU be armed?
“Testing Secret Service response.“
Looks like a ferret job. No one could actually be this stupid.
*From:* Jordan Fabian *Date:* February 19, 2018 at 11:58:41 AM EST *Subject:**Travel print pool report #2a - USSS statement*
The Secret Service is out with a statement about this morning's incident involving the driver of a press pool van:
Secret Service statement regarding events in Palm Beach, Florida February 19, 2018. The Secret Service can confirm that an individual serving as a staff contracted driver was briefly detained by U.S. Secret Service personnel and other law enforcement officials today. The individual was found to be in lawful possession of a prohibited item (firearm) outside the secure area at a Secret Service security screening checkpoint. The incident was investigated by the Secret Service and our partners at the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office (PBSO) and resolved. At no time was any Secret Service protectee in danger or impacted. All Secret Service security measures worked.
-- Jordan Fabian | White House Correspondent | The Hill | 1625 K Street, NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20006 |xxx@thehill.com | Desk: (202) -xxx-xxxx | Mobile: (202) -xxx-xxxx | Twitter: @Jordanfabian
Public Pool is an automated feed of White House press pool reports. For live updates, follow @WHPublicPool on Twitter.
I have a CHP and carry everyday. I’m amazed at the gun owners who forget they have a pistol in their carry-on luggage or forget to leave their firearms in their vehicles when they go into restricted areas. That pistol on my hip is always in the back of my mind, and knowing where I am, where I’m going and who is around me are all there, too. If someone is too preoccupied with upcoming events to pay attention to these kinds of things, s/he shouldn’t be carrying that day.
Ping
Media, possessing a gun? Well, my oh my!
Thank you for that info.
But that does not answer my concern for cameras and microphones.
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