A man posing as a member of Congress made his way backstage at an event the president attended.
According to Bloomberg, the unidentified man said he was a congressmen and was allowed in a secured area where other members of Congress got their pictures taken with the president. The incident happened at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation awards dinner in Washington Sept. 27, according to a White House official.
The unidentified man said he was Representative Donald Payne Jr., a Democrat from New Jersey, the official said. One member of the White House staff determined that the man wasn’t Payne, and another asked him to leave, the official said. He did so without incident and wasn’t detained.
