That’s the stale quip U.S. senators chortle when they unexpectedly spot their House colleagues wandering around the Senate wing of the Capitol. Not surprisingly, House members jest with the same banality when they spy senators roaming their turf on the other side of the Capitol dome.
But on Tuesday, the droll bon mot may have been more practice than pun. U.S. Capitol Police arrested and charged 36-year-old Ryan Clayton with “unlawful conduct.” Clayton apparently hornswoggled everyone into thinking he was a credentialed member of the Capitol Hill press corps. As a result, Clayton positioned himself just feet from President Trump when he arrived at the Capitol to lunch with Senate Republicans.
Fox News has learned that officials are now probing a report of a possible second interloper who may have finagled their way into the press pen awaiting the President on Tuesday. Fox News is told a middle-aged man with no press credential meshed with reporters in the Ohio Clock Corridor. When reporters asked the man which news organization he worked for, he replied, “I’m a tourist.” The man bragged he was “able to sneak in” to the press scrum preparing for Trump. Fox News is told that one reporter warned the man on at least two occasions “you’re not supposed to be here.”
It’s not known if the second individual diverted from a congressional tour and made his way to the secure area. It’s also not clear if he had connections to Clayton.
The Capitol Police Board is now conducting an investigation into what went wrong
“Some heads will roll,” predicted one veteran security source.
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