Posted on 06/30/2023 7:11:20 PM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON — A 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.
Taranto was identified by members of the Sedition Hunters community after a facial recognition search turned up photos of him posing with a cardboard cutout of Trump at county GOP events in his home state of Washington.
They tried this a few weeks, but it was a hot mess with things falling out of the back of van, the driving losing control... oy veh
Speaking of “Sedition Hunters”...
That term also popped up last night in a slightly different context:
J6er and Antifa Member Jayden X, Who Orchestrated Utah’s ‘TERRIOTEST’ Plan to Storm the Capitol on January 6, Is Living And Working as A War Correspondent in Ukraine… NOT IN JAIL
Gateway Pundit ^
Posted on 6/30/2023, 1:09:03 PM by Tench_Coxe
The militant Antifa and Black Lives Matter leader who notoriously disguised himself as a Trump supporter during the January 6 Capitol riot, destroying federal property and riling up the crowd to “Burn this shit down” and paid by the corporate press for footage of the Ashli Babbitt shooting is not in jail with other J6 defendants.
Instead, John Earle Sullivan, the federally indicted founder of Insurgence USA, is working as a war correspondent for the Ukrainian government.
While scouring through research compiled by “sedition hunters,” The Gateway Pundit discovered John Earl Sullivan’s social media pages where he is posting regular updates from the war zone.
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John also met with Ray Epps on January 5 and 6.
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James warns men who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy are being accused of “exactly what John has done — on camera. ”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
“Near Obama’s residence.”
DC is what, 60 square miles? In my neck of the woods 60 miles is “near” to anything.
This guy gets imprisoned sans trial while the people threatening supreme court justices are free to do as they please.
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Harvey’s bio says he “prosecuted high-profile cases involving. . .threats against high-ranking officials” when he was in the U.S. Attorney’s national security section: https://ballotpedia.org/G._Michael_Harvey
Just 400?
Did Trump do this?
indeed. what happened to “several blocks” from Obama’s house;
what happened to the explosives for making molotov cocktail?
how is he a J6 defendant if the MSM keep saying he hasn’t been arrested?
as for John Sullivan turning up in Ukraine as a correspondent these days....no surprise there.
what a joke.
the smell of a fresh load permeates
They know all that on one guy yet Hunter’s commie laptop remains a mystery.
I just watched that video by Sheriff Grady Judd. Something to the effect of “So, this individual hopped up on meth, made one more terrible decision today and fired a gun at our SWAT team. He fired off several rounds, and wounding one of the SWAT team members. The SWAT team responded by firing back. A lot. I have no idea how many rounds they fired, but it was a lot. You won’t survive firing on a SWAT team.”
Forced into homelessness by legal costs. They didn’t say what else was there.
Trump continues to be silent… the charges brought against these folks are dire and historic.
It’s NBC...you’re right.
FIB?
I thought Hussein Obama said he was returning to Kenya for an extended stay several weeks back to live among his Muslim kin.
Agree media doing what it does all the time diversion for the real criminals.
“so he is being charged with sedition then....no?” Good point.
I guess this is obvious, but the disturbing thing is that the “Sedition Hunters” are doing exactly what their name says. They aren’t investigating real crimes and “solving” them. Emulating Lavrenti Beria, they are targeting political enemies and HUNTING FOR CRIMES that aren’t necessarily there, to pin on them.
Do America’s “organs of State Security” pay and coordinate this posse of Stasi Lawfare Karens as a way of outsourcing domestic spying operations prohibited to them by law (and a way for the corrupt upper management to skirt reluctant field offices)? Considering the political censorship operations, I’d bet YES.
What are you wearing, Jeff from the FBI?
Have we found out who his FBI handler was yet?
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