[EDINVA]

This raises a few questions. Security for a POTUS or VPOTUS is very serious business. When either is scheduled to speak, those who are ticketed have to submit their SS# first. Then, if the guest of honor allows, the organizer or Secret Service or whomever will issue press passes. Those names are kept on lists, or passes issued. You don’t just ‘show up’ at an event and expect to be admitted.

So: How did the reporter come to know of and attempt to cover the event? Did he request a pass or other form of access? Also, I don’t know how he emerged with his camera, or was allowed to keep it while in the closet. It sounds like something the Secret Service might well have seized.

This may be overkill for security but we live in ‘interesting times.’

[MindBender26]

Had they wanted to evict him, he could still have stood on the street and asked questions of arriving or departing guests.

Of course, you can't do that while imprisoned in a closet.

[newzjunkey]

How did the reporter come to know of and attempt to cover the event?

The reporter in question works for the Orlando Sentinel.

He was the pool reporter for the event.