The United Nations claims that a videographer may have accidentally been responsible for the abrupt escalator shutdown on Wednesday when President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived for the General Assembly in New York City.
Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News she believes the president was sabotaged, and emphasized the Secret Service is “looking into” the matter.
The U.N. has claimed the escalator stoppage was not a deliberate act. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric claimed a videographer with the U.S. delegation could have accidentally triggered a safety feature at the top of the escalator, causing it to stop running, as London’s Times reported :
A subsequent investigation, including a readout of the machine’s central processing unit