White House reviews incident involving Epoch Times photographer handing a folder to Trump

[Totally Tunsie]

The incident was a violation of protocol for journalists covering the White House, and it marked at least the second time an Epoch Times journalist has disrupted a White House event.

White House says it "has been dealt with", but why all the secrecy? What's going on here?

Source: Washington Post

The White House has reviewed an incident last week in which a news photographer for the Epoch Times, a publication banned in China for its critical coverage, stepped into a restricted area and handed President Trump a folder during an official event.

The photographer, identified by other photojournalists as Samira Bouaou, passed the purple-colored folder to Trump as he was walking out of the East Room on Sept. 12 after delivering remarks at a reception for the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.

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Trump accepted the folder and appeared to open it briefly as he departed before quickly shutting it, the witnesses said. It was not clear what was inside the folder. Photographers who asked Bouaou afterward why she did it and what the folder contained said she declined to provide details.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who discussed the incident with members of the White House Correspondents’ Association executive board, declined to answer questions about the matter. Bouaou was said by those who know her to have recently secured a White House “hard pass” from the Secret Service allowing her daily access to the press briefing room and other events.

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[matt819]

1. Weird

And although photographers caught this incident on camera, there seem to be no photos online (at least that I could find).

WaPo reports that the incident has been investigated and closed.

How did a reporter get close enough to hand something to the president*?

Why is there not outrage from republicans re security?

Maybe nothing? Probably nothing? But weird.

[gratuitous]

2. Putin's intermediary handing off instructions to his underling

That's what I say it is. Prove me wrong, White House.

[Totally Tunsie]

3. The part that disturbs me is this sentence:

"Trump accepted the folder and appeared to open it briefly as he departed before quickly shutting it..."

From the sound of it, it seems as though he may have recognized the content rather quickly, which isn't a known trait of Dotard.