Wisconsin Freshman Fooled Secret Service And Snuck Into Mar-A-Lago While Trump Was There Because He "Wanted To See How Far He Could Get"
NY POST - A college freshman pleaded guilty Tuesday to fooling secret service agents and sneaking onto Mar-a-Lago while President Trump was in town over Thanksgiving.
Mark Lindblom, 19, apologized to a federal magistrate, saying he didn’t mean any harm when he infiltrated the swanky Palm Beach club.
“I wanted to see how far I could get,” Lindblom told Magistrate Judge William Matthewman, according to the Palm Beach Post.
People say today’s college kids are lazy idiots without any brains who only care about drinking and partying and represent a generation that is going to drive the world into a shithole.
One, I was a lazy idiot who cared about partying a trillion times more than class and so were our parents and so were their parents.
Two, there are people like Mark Lindblom out there who prove the stereotype wrong with their guile and street smarts and give us all hope that we’re in good hands.
The University of Wisconsin business major had been visiting his grandparents, who are members of a nearby country club, Nov. 23 when he decided to walk down the beach the resorts share.
He then got in line with Mar-a-Lago members and guests waiting to pass through a metal detector to get in.
Lindblom tricked Secret Service agents into thinking he was a club member and then wandered around the grounds for 20 minutes before he was arrested.
And Trump was there!
The president and his family were at the so-called “Winter White House” for the holiday.
Making Wisconsin proud. Smart and clever enough to sneak by Secret Service and mingling with the god damn President of the United States. He said it was super easy:
According to Lindblom’s attorney Marcos Beaton, Lindblom simply walked down to the beach his grandparents’ Palm Beach & Bath Tennis Club share with Mar-a-Lago.
He headed to a tunnel under State Road A1A that gives members of Mar-a-Lago access to the beach and stood in line with club members.
He was ushered through a metal detector manned by Secret Service agents and waved through, Beaton said.
“Mr. Lindblom was wanded by Secret Service agents and he walked on through,” Beaton said. (Heavy)
Good thing it wasn’t a terrorist or John Hinckley Jr. superfan – just a savvy Wisco freshman looking for a challenge. Or, as this old dude says with a word that hasn’t been used since the FDR administration: “a lark.”
Assistant US Attorney John McMillan said the investigation showed the teen’s only goal was to snap some photos.
“We have no reason to believe he had a political, criminal or terroristic purpose,” McMillan said. “It was a foolish decision he did on a lark.”
Toast to the future.