south portico entrance of the white house just 200 feet from president trump s bedroom window with a backpack. if convicted he faces ten years in federal prison. his brother says before the incident tran was in a low place having just been laid off from a job at an electrical engineering firm and was living out of his car. his attempt to get into the white house, while ultimately unsuccessful, was still an enormous security breach. he gained access to the grounds by hopping a fence by the treasury department on the east side of the white house. according to former secret service agents he would have had to hop multiple fences to end up at that famous south portico entrance. tran was carrying two cannes s mace, a backpack, a laptop, one of donald trump s books and a letter to the president. he told the secret service officer that arrested him that he was a friend of the president and had an appointment. the president was at the white house at the time but was never in danger. he later c