BREAKING: Taylor Taranto had guns, 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near Barack Obama’s home.
Donald Trump posted Obama’s address on social media. Taranto reposted it, then showed up.
Story with @FionaGlisson. #AstroNOT https://t.co/SX7qRQqq3Y
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) June 30, 2023
Between the two stolen SC(R)OTUS seats, and the ongoing spillover from his failed autogolpe, the GOP can rest assured that their ‘god-emperor’ Trump will go down in history as the worst American president bar none.
(Gods willing, he’ll also be remembered as the last Republican president… )
Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol wearing a “Make Space Great Again” hat had two guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested Thursday near former President Barack Obama’s home, federal authorities said Friday.
A federal prosecutor said in court Friday that Taylor Taranto, a 37-year-old man first identified by online sleuths in August 2021, also had a machete in the van he appeared to be living in. Taranto’s van has been parked near the D.C. jail in recent weeks and he has appeared at protests in support of other Jan. 6 defendants, videos on social media show. Noting that he lived in the van, a federal prosecutor said Taranto had “nowhere to go.”
Taranto currently faces four misdemeanor counts in connection with Jan. 6, the federal prosecutor said.
The prosecutor said that Taranto has been in Washington to take House Speaker Kevin McCarthy up on his offer of letting Jan. 6 defendants review security footage of the Capitol riot relevant to their cases. Taranto had posted recordings of phone calls he made trying to get access to the footage to his social media.
Taranto has acknowledged entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 in social media posts and questioned why authorities had not arrested him. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Taranto showed up at Obama’s residence on Thursday after former President Donald Trump posted screenshots on his Truth Social platform that featured a purported address for Obama’s home in Washington. Taranto’s account reposted Trump’s post.
“We got these losers surrounded!” Taranto wrote on Telegram yesterday. “See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s!”
Taranto will be held in custody at least until a detention hearing on Wednesday. Federal Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said Friday he had “some concern” about Taranto’s mental stability…
More details from WaPo: https://t.co/iOngmOMj8W
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 1, 2023
The man who was arrested Thursday with weapons in his van near the residence of former president Barack Obama had been acting erratically and espousing baseless claims that even some of the most ardent Jan. 6 defendants found distasteful, according to multiple people who said they recently interacted with the man…
Multiple Jan. 6 demonstrators outside of the D.C. jail said they had kicked Taranto out of their group on Saturday after he attempted to play a video that showed the death of Ashli Babbitt in front of her mother.
One of those people, Tamara Perryman, said that she last saw Taranto on Monday night and that he appeared incoherent — “arms flailing about, bobbing his head, making incoherent statements.”
Tommy Tatum, who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and also attends nightly demonstrations outside of the D.C. jail, said that “there was something really, really off about that guy.” Tatum was one of the people who reposted a portion of Taranto’s live stream on YouTube…
The most recent post on the Telegram channel that SITE connected to Taranto was a link to an article that included Obama’s home address and the headline: “Inside Obama’s Kalorama Mansion; Secret Tunnels and a War Room.” One commenter on the Thursday post wrote: “You OK brother?”
Yes, you read that correctly. Unarrested J6er Taylor Taranto (#AstroNot) got Barack Obama's Washington address from Trump earlier today. He promptly went there & was arrested for "multiple weapons and the materials to make some kind of explosive device akin to a Molotov cocktail" https://t.co/PeMYYqhmXn
— Riverfox (@RiverFox1) June 29, 2023
Taylor Taranto aka #AstroNot also carried a nasty sharpened metal "tactical cane" into the Capitol Jan 6. In photo 1 he's using it in a clash with fellow rioters. Photo 2 shows him inside with it facing the police line. Photo 3 shows similar cane. H/t @capitolfaces pic.twitter.com/Ua59onu3hk
— Nefarious Organization Opal Katz (@DianthaSol) June 30, 2023
SpaceUnit
Nice to see he’s finally got a roof over his head.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
I always find it fascinating when insane people call even more insane people mentally unstable. Like yeah, they’re worse, but you’re not exactly a shining example of sanity there, bud
Jesus Christ, that’s ghoulish, even by right-wing standards. No wonder they didn’t want to have anything to do with him after that. Didn’t serve as a wakeup call apparently
Jinchi
Brings back memories of Trump and his klan showing up at the debate with Biden, deliberately flouting the mask rules, after he’d tested positive for Covid.
The guy has been trying to kill people for a while now.
Jackie
Isn’t TIFG’s posting Obama’s address on his social media site akin to swatting???? Surely a law of some sort was broken! 😡
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jackie:
Exactly, how is this not inciting violence/swatting!?
Jinchi
@Jackie:
Yup.
There’s really no reason to post Obama’s address, except to inspire someone to attack him.
twbrandt
No shit.
Eunicecycle
@Jackie: I would think the Secret Service is a little concerned! I mean the ones guarding Obama.
dmsilev
The US has had bad Presidents before, but even the worst had some virtues. Until Trump. I can’t think of anything good about him, not even some tiny fig leaf of ‘oh, he likes dogs’ or ‘well, at least he has good taste in interior decor’. Nothing.
Ken
@dmsilev: He loves his daughter.
Cameron
@dmsilev: You mean he’s truly a man of the people?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ken:
Perhaps a little too much
Alison Rose
ARREST TRUMP’S ORANGE ASS TOO DAMN IT. How the fucking hell is that okay???? God damn it, I try to never wish death on anyone, but can someone spike his fucking diet Coke with arsenic already?
Yutsano
He seems nice…
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@dmsilev:
Amazing, isn’t it? He really doesn’t at all. The Trump years and the last few years have changed all of us; my folks never wished harm on anybody until Trump. He’s an absolutely awful person who’s a threat to all of us
Sanjeevs
Jack Teixeira hasn’t incited any murders recently.
Because he’s in jail.
Jackie
@Ken: Yes, but by her recent distancing of him post J6, the feeling isn’t mutual (anymore.) I think Ivanka dumped him for the prince of Saudi Arabia.
Fester Addams
Looks like none of the reporting uses the word “radicalized.” I recall that being common in articles about terrorists, who or what website radicalized them.
Parfigliano
Imagine how fucked up you have to be when MAGA morons think your crazy.
Jackie
Speaking of being attached at the hip:
“’He doesn’t let Walt out of his sight’: Internet roasts Trump and Nauta’s Philly cheesesteak outing”
I’m afraid to ask if private bathroom breaks are allowed!
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nauta-outing/
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Parfigliano:
No such thing as peak wingnut,, after all
mrmoshpotato
How long until this pile of shit throws a tantrum in court like that taser cane shitstain?
ColoradoGuy
I don’t think anyone planned on an ex-President becoming Terrorist-In-Chief. But that’s what we’ve got; a psychopath bent on stochastic terrorism, aided and abetted by a huge media structure that feeds on fear and hate.
dmsilev
@Ken: I’m not sure we can put that one in the ‘virtue’ category.
p.a.
Well then according to the Reich Wingers he should be put down, by deadly chokehold or other means, right?
sdhays
@Ken: He feels something for his daughter, but I wouldn’t call it “love”.
Cacti
@dmsilev: The only rival Trump has for worst of all time is James Buchanan.
Suzanne
Taylor Taranto is apparently THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD. FFS. I thought people grew out of being violent losers.
geg6
I want him to DIAF but not right away. A few months in a burn unit is called for here.
Ohio Mom
I was curious how easy it was to find Obama’s address, so I did a little bit of googling, and it wasn’t hard at all.
There were lots of magazine features on the house when they first moved in, at least one of which had a link to the real estate listing page. Which of course had the full address.
Makes me wonder how many other near misses there have been. It’s a good thing former presidents have Secret Service protection (even with all the questions about the Secret Service’s trustworthiness).
sdhays
Interesting that “sparing with police” with a metal cane is a misdemeanor. Hopefully they can find something stronger to charge this lunatic with since he’s clearly dangerous.
Chetan Murthy
@sdhays: it is when you’re white.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: I know they have multiple properties. I hope they haven’t been there recently. I know they wanted to stay in Washington day-to-day until Sasha graduated, but now they can be FREE!
sdhays
@Chetan Murthy: Yep.
Parfigliano
He feels something for his daughter, but I wouldn’t call it “love”.
He wants to bang her and openly speaks of dating her. Like all good Christians do.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Suzanne:
I hope the Obamas weren’t at this residence while this nut was skulking around
Shalimar
@Ken: Not as many times as when he was younger.
phdesmond
@twbrandt:
his wording demonstrates “judicial restraint.”
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Certainly an individual under multiple federal and state indictments committing a crime that led to a legitimate attempt at violence requires urgent attention.
Jeffro
@Alison Rose: I’d like to co-sign this, please.
The Dems and the snooze media need to hammer the shit out of this and all the OTHER times trump has tried to B-movie mob boss this kind of shit.
“will no one rid me of this meddlesome special prosecutor/his wife/his friend…no?…how about an ex-president?…um…c’mon people, are you MAGA or not?”
fucking sick and I hope trump slips and says something actionable enough that he gets hauled into court for it, STAT
Shalimar
@Jackie: Walt Nauta needs to be in jail. He’s clearly avoiding arraignment by not hiring a lawyer as a Trump-style delaying tactic. I understand why they don’t want the logisitics of putting Trump behind bars awaiting trial, but Nauta is not a former president. If no lawyer wants to represent him, he should wait for his arraignment in a cell.
Wyatt Salamanca
as the first U.S. President to die in a federal prison (preferably the supermax facility in Florence, Colorado).
Given all the crimes Trump has committed, the only appropriate ending for this bastard is death in a prison cell.
kalakal
Ok, but in what way was this unusual behaviour for a MAGA? He’s just imitating Trump.
I hope TFG and his GQP enablers do hard time
moonbat
@Jackie: That joint is across the park from our community garden. We’re going to have a sage ceremony tomorrow to cleanse the place of his bad air.
Carlo Graziani
@Wyatt Salamanca:
I’m rooting for Marion Penitentiary, in Southern Illinois. It famously had a “Governor’s Wing” that housed Rod Blagojevic and George Ryan, and hopefully can look forwards to hosting Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan in the not-too-distant future.
As I drove by there on I-57 a few years ago, I looked it up on Google Maps, and was delighted to find that the penitentiary has many positive reviews! It’s probably more tastefully decorated than Mar-A-Lago, at any rate.
SFAW
@Carlo Graziani:
Pretty low bar. I could gold-plate a two-holer and it would be more tasteful that Mar-a-Lardo.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I was wondering about this earlier. I’ve seen Nauta in a lot of photos in the last few weeks, but I don’t think I knew who he was until the document case started rolling. Was he always that physically close? I think one of trump’s ex-lawyers– the Wilford Brimley looking one?– said trump barely spoke to Nauta when he wasn’t giving an order, treated him like furniture.
dmsilev
@SFAW: It’s pretty close; just add a chandelier.
Suzanne
@SFAW: Agreed. As @dmsilev: notes, he has terrible taste in interiors.
Side note: I occasionally watch those videos in which someone takes a beautiful old piece of furniture….and instead of refinishing it, they cover it in chalk paint and gold leaf. And I don’t believe in Hell. But those videos make me wish that I did.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Absolutely 💯
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Suzanne:
What, you don’t think golden shitters are the height of taste? lol
billcinsd
@Cacti: Tyler joined the Confederacy and served in their House of Representatives
Geminid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ty Cobb would be the Brimley-looking attorney. Cobb headed Trump’s legal team countering the Mueller investigation from mid-2017 to mid-2018,
dmsilev
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Seems like they’d be a bit chilly to sit on.
sdhays
@billcinsd: And Andrew Johnson tried to gift the Confederacy back everything it had lost right after they were defeated. He was impeached and should have been removed from office, but held on because of one Senator.
I think there’s a point where awfulness starts approaching “infinite” and ranking are impossible (or at least meaningless).
cmorenc
@billcinsd: Andrew Johnson was a very bad President who fortunately was too drunk much of the time to do as much harm in the immediate post-Civil War period as he otherwise could have.
Ken
Dammit, Sinema!
Alison Rose
@Geminid: Can’t see that dude’s name without hearing this line in my head.
billcinsd
@sdhays: Which isn’t the same thing as committing treason. Tyler died while still committing treason. He also was the first President to face impeachment proceedings, and started The Tyler Party to retain the Presidency after neither the Whigs, nor the Democrats wanted him.
HumboldtBlue
If you’re interested in a London fishmonger making a show about visiting the world’s greatest food markets and on this trip they hit Fulton Fish Market in Queens, well, I’ve got you covered.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Geminid: that’s him!
@Alison Rose: I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors, but I think his folks had a sick sense of humor
Geminid
@billcinsd: Andrew Johnson probably did the most damage.
Tyler and Buchanon were part of a string of one-term Presidents that lasted from 1836 to 1860. I think a couple were not even renominated by their own party.
This was a departure from the years 1788 to 1836, when there were five two-term Presidents and just two one-termers: the Adamses, father and son.
Geminid
@Alison Rose: The first Ty Cobb definitely was not a Wilfrid Brimley type.
prostratedragon
@HumboldtBlue:
Jackie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Now he’s being treated like the bestest furniture.
Ever since TIFG’s “bring me a Diet Coke” guy was indicted, he’s been in plain sight of TIFG.
Alison Rose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well IMO we should take him by the hand and put him on the stand, let us hear his alibis.
HumboldtBlue
@prostratedragon:
If you don’t throw the ball, you won’t hit the coconut.
Can’t say better than that.
Jinchi
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Yeah it’s really disturbing that he can mess up “loving his own
childrenchild.”Chetan Murthy
@Jinchi: *cough* I don’t think that’s called “loving”. I think it’s called “treating as a blow-up sex doll”. A far cry from loving. I think he doesn’t know how to love anything. Anything.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue:
THIS is what was missing from my day!
Mai Naem mobileI
@p.a.: nah, that’s for colored folks. This guy is white. He gets the trip to Burger King for a meal on his way to the police station.
oatler
@prostratedragon:
Ever gone eel fishing? Let The Tin Drum be your guide!