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One day before an unidentified climber took to Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, a video appeared on YouTube posted by someone with the profile name Leven Thumps, announcing his intention to scale the skyscraper and his motives for doing so.... In the video entitled “Message to Mr. Trump (why I climbed your tower)” (ripped below), a hoodie-clad young man claims to be “an independent researcher seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter.”...

The daredevil climber who attempted to scale Trump Tower on Wednesday is a 20-year-old man who traveled to Manhattan from Virginia and staged his stunt in the hopes of winning a meeting with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, police said... He was taken to Bellevue hospital in Manhattan for a psychiatric evaluation, and it was not yet clear what charges he might face for his high-rise high jinks.... The Spider-Man-like escapade began around 4 p.m., as the candidate was holding a rally in Virginia.... he climber’s ascent ended abruptly around 7 p.m., when emergency responders were able to yank him...

A man scales the all-glass facade of Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, in New York. A police spokeswoman says officers responded to Donald Trump's namesake skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The 58-story building is headquarters to the Republican presidential nominee's campaign. He also lives there. NEW YORK (AP) — A man who said he was seeking “a private audience” with Donald Trump by climbing the Republican presidential candidate’s skyscraper was hospitalized on Thursday after his arrest a day earlier on charges of reckless endangerment and trespassing. The New York Police Department identified the climber as 19-year-old Stephen Rogata,...