Guy Pretended to Be a 3 star Army General, authorized a classified copter trip authorized by Trump..

[HipChick]

He allegedly told people he was headed to a top-secret meeting approved by the president, which feds say was a bunch of BS...
he allegedly it was authorized by Trump..



Feds: Military impersonator used helicopter to impress woman

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man pretending to be a three-star U.S. Army general wanted to impress a woman when he unexpectedly landed in a chartered helicopter at the headquarters of a North Carolina technology company last year, a federal agent testified Monday.

Details about the strange case of Christian Desgroux emerged at a hearing before a federal magistrate, who ordered that the defendant remain in jail pending his upcoming arraignment. The 57-year-old is charged with pretending to be a military officer, which carries a maximum of three years in prison.It was around sunset on Nov. 6 when the pilot of the helicopter chartered by Desgroux landed on a soccer field at the sprawling corporate campus of SAS Institute in Cary.

As security officers approached, Desgroux stepped out wearing a “full military battle dress uniform” and displaying three stars that implied a rank of lieutenant general, Homeland Security Special Agent Tony Bell testified.“He saluted the security officers, and they actually saluted him back,” Bell said.A suspicious security supervisor confronted Desgroux, who told him he was there to pick up a female employee to take her to Fort Bragg for a classified briefing that had been authorized by President Donald Trump.

But none of it was true: Desgroux later acknowledged to federal agents that he had never served in the U.S. military, Bell said.The woman, a longtime acquaintance of Desgroux, expected him to arrive in a car for a visit. Instead they went on a 30-minute helicopter ride around Raleigh, Bell said.

“She had no idea that he was flying a helicopter to pick her up,” Bell said. Bell testified that Desgroux wanted to pursue a romantic relationship, but the woman is married.She and the pilot, who has not been charged, appear to have been swept up in Desgroux’s strange behavior.“She didn’t know what to make of it,” Bell told the judge. “She just went along with it.”Bell testified that investigators suspect Desgroux is mentally ill, but didn’t elaborate.Still, the episode was no laughing matter. After the woman returned, SAS security staff notified local police — and a joint terrorism task force soon joined the case.

The privately held technology company is among the largest based in the state, with 14,000 employees worldwide and more than $3 billion in revenue in 2017. Spokeswoman Shannon Heath said in an email Monday that company officials “do not know his intention or reason for picking up a SAS employee.”

https://www.apnews.com/a5dc77fedee149d9baf49c828a23c9bf/Feds:-Military-impersonator-used-helicopter-to-impress-woman

[Roland99]

1. Hilarious. Wow.

[malaise]

2. Looks like he flew out of the

cuckoo's nest.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. "wanted to pursue a romantic relationship, but the woman is married"

Does this sound like someone we all know and love? It sounds like Trump's conversation with Billy Bush on the Access Hollywood bus.

There are certain parallels: one man pretended to be a 3-star general, the other pretends to be a bigly-loved president.

[Aristus]

4. I hope he shaved before his little ruse.

If there's one thing a Lieutenant General can't show, it's stubble.