Man threatens to shoot journalists outside the White House with an AR-15, but there's a twist...

Greg P. | 8:32 PM on August 23, 2018

The Daily Caller’s Saagar Enjeti reports that an unidentified man on a bicycle threatened to shoot him and some of the website’s interns with an AR-15 outside of the staff entrance to the White House this afternoon:

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1032742271106605056

But we don’t expect that Jim Acosta or Brian Stelter or any of the folks at CNN will really care about this threat to the press because the guy making the threat thought Enjeti and his colleagues were working for the Trump administration:

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1032743849800687617

Vice President Mike Pence press secretary Alyssa Farah recommended a report to the U.S. Secret Service:

Report to Secret Service if you haven’t already

— Alyssa Farah (@Alyssafarah) August 23, 2018

Which was done:

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1032744910057885698

Secret Service was there, but couldn’t react in time to the threat:

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1032745254301171713

Bloomberg’s Megan O’Neil said a similar thing happened to her before, too:

Mistaken for a staffer, I too was harangued leaving the White House after a recent late night pool duty shift. Startled me. https://t.co/CN8rjV54sK

— Megan O'Neil (@ByMeganONeil) August 23, 2018