The evening before his inauguration, President Donald Trump took time to meet with a 24-year-old FedEx courier from rural Illinois.
In a tent behind the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the soon-to-be president praised Shane Bouvet for his work as a volunteer on his campaign, hugged him and then promised him
an extraordinary thank you: A $10,000 cheque.
The unusual meeting was arranged after Trump said he read a profile about Bouvet in The Washington Post.
The struggling single father had spent nights working and days volunteering for Trump, who Bouvet hoped could bring renewal to his home town of Stonington, Illinois, and other corners hard hit by the decline in U.S. industry.
Today, the cheque arrived in the mail.
