One man manages night Friday to Saturday to get away from the White House garden fence and arrested in the grounds of the presidential residence, police said.
"The Secret Service responded with amazing way," said his part Obama Donald Trump, who was in the White House time the incident occurred, paying tribute to the unit responsible for its safety.
The attacker was a man "with mental problems," added Trump speaking from a golf course that is owned and located in the State of Virginia, near Washington.
The suspect had a backpack on his back which did not contain anything dangerous, he said in a statement the Secret Service.
"At 23:38 (local time, 6:38 GMT Saturday) a person crossed the fence near Treasury Building, along the East Executive Avenue. The uniformed Secret Service agents arrested this person without difficulty in the south (the White House), "specified in the notice.
The gunman was identified as Jonathan Tran, 26, from California, such as broadcast television network CNN.
According to CNN, which relies on the police report of Washington, the suspect said when approached by a police officer: "No, I'm a friend of the president. I have an appointment with him. " When they asked him how he had spent in the grounds of the White House, simply replied: "I jumped over the fence."
The fence around the White House considered the weakest point of the US President and safety will soon be replaced.
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