A 20-year-old Donald Trump supporter who scaled the Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday for three hours using suction cups and a climbing harness, was pulled inside through a window by police who tried to coax him into the building throughout the escapade.
The man reached the 21st story of the 58-story tower, which is the headquarters for the election campaign of Donald Trump, the US Republican presidential nominee.
As the climber from Virginia wearing a backpack scaled the tower’s glass exterior, police removed large window panels above him and several officers, some wearing helmets, stood at the windows.The man was undergoing psychiatric evaluation and would be arrested, police said.
Reports of the climber first surfaced on Twitter and social media around 4 pm (2000 GMT).
The man, who had uploaded a YouTube video on Tuesday, referred to himself as an “independent researcher” seeking a private audience with Trump to discuss an unspecified important matter.
“The reason I climbed your tower was to get your attention,” he said in the video and then encouraged people to vote for Trump.
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