Here’s a good laugh story: NBC News reporter Cassie Semyon sprints out of the couthouse to deliver the Manafort guilty verdicts. The thing is, she’s wearing a blue dress, and someone gets a picture of her. The picture is in the DK diary along with tweets about it, a couple of which are:
Yes, it is me, the journalist in the blue dress, running after the #ManafortTrial verdict. Thank you @Jacquelyn_M for the photo! #GoBlueDressGo pic.twitter.com/IkOM7VbWC5
— Cassie Semyon (@casssemyon) August 21, 2018
There’s fast, really fast, supersonic fast, and then there is “Cassie Seymon breaking the story of the year” fast. pic.twitter.com/gH5V6q1Hzh
— James Frye (@JamesFrye) August 22, 2018
Edit: According to people digging, she still owns the record at her high school for an under 6 minute 1600m.