{"id":391497,"date":"2019-01-03T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canadian-man-jumped-white-house-fence-carrying-whisky-and-looking-for-love-advice-from-trump-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:55:36","slug":"canadian-man-jumped-white-house-fence-carrying-whisky-and-looking-for-love-advice-from-trump-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canadian-man-jumped-white-house-fence-carrying-whisky-and-looking-for-love-advice-from-trump-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian man jumped White House fence, carrying whisky and looking for love advice from Trump \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c2e22c4dda4c8116b8b45c9.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Whatever your embarrassing New Year\u2019s story is, one Canadian man has it beaten. Yianny Georgopoulos was arrested on White House grounds, and told the secret service he wanted President Trump\u2019s advice to \u201cfind a wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to court documents seen by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/Man-Arrested-at-White-House-Said-He-Wanted-to-Take-Bottles-of-Crown-Royal-to-President-Trump-503828091.html?fbclid=IwAR0VgoZUqgigcjXP8FXt1-fj7gqqH6ZDNuakeqVyOGHvmjTX0vhTrtDGJy8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC Washington<\/a>, Georgopoulos approached the White House just after midnight on Wednesday, carrying two bottles of Crown Royal Canadian whisky \u2013 meant as gifts for the president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CROWN ROYAL ARREST OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE &#8211; Feds charge Yianny Georgopoulous with moving security barrier outside White House.   Police:  Man said he &#8220;was here to see the President and wanted to deliver two bottles of Crown Royal alcohol to him.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ahpTGof1rL\">pic.twitter.com\/ahpTGof1rL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacFarlaneNews\/status\/1080566424710627328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The gift-bearing burglar clambered over the White House fence using a bicycle rack, but was <em>\u201cimmediately arrested\u201d<\/em> by Secret Service agents on the other side. He then told the agents that he wanted romantic advice from Trump, and was planning on asking the president \u2013 who has been married three times \u2013 how to <em>\u201cfind a wife.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Georgopoulos told the agents that he had been arrested for erratic behavior before. He said he had threatened his own family members, stalked his cousin, and <em>\u201ccan\u2019t go home\u201d<\/em> to Canada, without elaborating further. He said that he had seen the <em>\u201cNO TRESPASSING\u201d<\/em> signs, but ignored them on his quest to get some face time with Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/448006-trump-poster-sanctions-are-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Trump\u2019s \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 poster leaves everyone puzzled<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__cover\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.01\/thumbnail\/5c2e1712fc7e93be5e8b45a5.JPG')\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever romantic advice Trump could have offered him, Georgopoulos\u2019 gifts were ill thought out. The president is a self-described teetotaler and opts for his signature Diet Coke at state dinners or foreign events.<\/p>\n<p>Georgopoulos can now count himself among the handful of trespassers who have taken a shot at getting into the White House during the Trump presidency. A man carrying a backpack with a letter for Trump and two cans of mace was arrested within steps of the presidential residence in March 2017. Later that year, a Kentucky man was arrested after hopping the perimeter barrier dressed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/407239-white-house-fence-pokemon-pikachu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pikachu<\/a> suit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/448020-canadian-whisky-white-house\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever your embarrassing New Year\u2019s story is, one Canadian man has it beaten. Yianny Georgopoulos was arrested on White House grounds, and told the secret service he wanted President Trump\u2019s advice to \u201cfind a wife.\u201d According to court documents seen by NBC Washington, Georgopoulos approached the White House just after midnight on Wednesday, carrying two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}