Secret Service Stops Bulletproof-Clad Man with Knives Trying to Confront Ivanka Trump

Ivanka Trump, via Twitter
Ivanka Trump, via Twitter

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

A Bronx man wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying two throwing knives tried getting into Trump Tower in New York to see President Trump’s daughter Ivamkqa Trump on Thursday.

But Adames Benitez, 52, was quickly stopped by Secret Service after agents spotted the bulletproof vest around 4 p.m., the New York Daily News reports. 

The suspect told Secret Service agents he was a U.S. senator who owned the building and wanted to speak to Ivanka about her dress line.

A search uncovered two throwing knives, weighted socks and a fake New York State I.D. card.

Prosecutors charged the man with weapons possession and having a fake ID and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the man was an imminent threat to Ivanka.

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