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Post by the Scribe on Jul 8, 2023 6:40:01 GMT
The latest person from Arizona to stick a pin in the Donald Trump voodoo doll
www.yahoo.com/news/latest-person-arizona-stick-pin-130216953.html
EJ Montini, Arizona Republic
Fri, July 7, 2023 at 6:02 AM MST
Trump's former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham
If a Democratic politician published the address of a Republican politician on a social media platform known to attract kooks and extremists, and then one of those kooks and extremists threatened that politician and was nabbed by authorities with loaded firearms, I can’t imagine Republican politicians or their friends in the right-wing media would be talking about anything else.
But …
It was former President Donald Trump who leaked former President Barack Obama’s address on Trump’s Truth Social media platform, which led to the arrest of a man the Justice Department called “a direct threat to multiple political figures as well as the public at large.”
So … that story quietly went away and we’re left to other concerns.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 8, 2023 6:57:26 GMT
QAnon Obama stalker arrested near former president's home is an ongoing threat, feds say.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/05/obama-stalker-threat-arrested-trump-posted-address/70384485007/
Josh Meyer
USA TODAY
Published 4:39 p.m. ET July 5, 2023 Updated 2:08 p.m. ET July 6, 1023
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday sought to keep in custody an armed man known as a QAnon conspiracy theorist who was arrested near President Barack Obama's Washington, D.C., house last week, saying he's a delusional and ongoing danger who threatened other high-level officials including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Taylor Taranto, wanted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, was arrested June 29 after eluding a daylong police manhunt that began after he threatened to detonate explosives in his van while parked at a federal building in Gaithersburg, Maryland, the Justice Department said in a new July 5 filing.
“Taranto’s own words and actions demonstrate that he is a direct threat to multiple political figures as well as the public at large,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Allison Ethen and Colin Cloherty wrote in a 26-page detention memo. “The risk that Taranto poses if released is high, and the severity of the consequences that could result are catastrophic.”
Authorities had been on the lookout for Taranto before his arrest, but he was living in a van and was on the move. A subsequent search of the van turned up hundreds of rounds of 9 mm ammunition and two firearms, the prosecutors said. Previous news reports also said authorities found multiple weapons and materials that could be assembled to make an explosive device.
At an initial court appearance last Friday, Assistant Federal Public Defender Katie Guevara told a judge that Taranto was married and living in Washington state and had no criminal record, according to news reports. She said he traveled to D.C. in recent months to take McCarthy up on his public offer to make footage of Capitol security video available to those involved in the Jan. 6 uprising.
Guevara also said Taranto’s wife and her parents, based in Connecticut, could provide housing for Taranto while he awaited trial. Late Wednesday, after hearing motions in the case, a federal judge took the issue under advisement, saying that while he was "very concerned" about Taranto, he believed he could only consider releasing him based on whether he poses a flight risk because Taranto faces only misdemeanor charges.
According to prosecutors, Taranto posted widely about a variety of conspiracy theories on social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, Truth Social, Parler, and Telegram. Most of them focused on Jan. 6, they said, as well as "a belief that the 2020 election was fraudulent, and an endorsement of theories that 'QAnon' followers promote." His posts, the detention memo said, also stated "in no uncertain terms that Taranto does not recognize governmental authority."
Taranto's behavior, described by prosecutors as erratic and dangerous, escalated around June 28th, when he began live streaming on a publicly available YouTube channel that he was in Gaithersburg and headed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. He said he was on a “one way mission” to blow up his van there, and that the vehicle was self-driving so he would not have to be anywhere near it when it “went off," the detention memo said.
The FBI, which had been monitoring Taranto’s online activities because of his participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, immediately began searching for him and alerted other law enforcement partners.
After an arrest warrant was issued June 29 for his alleged Jan. 6, crimes, Taranto began livestreaming again, prosecutors said, this time driving his van to the upscale residential where Obama and his family live, and then got out of the car and walked around.
"While walking, he made several concerning statements regarding the residences in the area, saying that he was looking for 'entrance points,' that he had 'control' of the block and 'had them surrounded' and that he was going to find a way to the 'tunnels underneath their houses,' prosecutors said. "He also repeatedly stated that he was trying to get a 'shot' and that he wanted to get a “good angle on a shot.”
Taranto was spotted by Secret Service within blocks of Obama's house, and was apprehended as he was running toward it.
In their detention memo, prosecutors also suggested that former President Donald Trump was the one who tipped off Taranto to what he claimed was Obama's home address.
On June 29, they said, Trump posted what he claimed was Obama's address on his social media platform, Truth Social. Taranto used his own Truth Social account to repost the address, the detention memo said, adding: "On Telegram, Taranto then stated, 'We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s.'"
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 8, 2023 7:08:43 GMT
Trump ought to be arrested and thrown into prison. He is a menace to society. His entire conservative base should share prison time.
more right wing nonsense:
Chris Gloninger exits KCCI after Friday's noon newscast, citing 'death threat' from viewer over his climate change beliefs
Jay Stahl
Des Moines Register
KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger left the station Friday with an emotional goodbye.
During the noon newscast alongside anchor Alyx Sacks, Gloninger addressed his exit, which follows a June 21 statement on Twitter announcing his departure. Gloninger said he received a "viewer death threat and resulting PTSD" diagnosis.
In his on-air goodbye Friday, Gloninger said it felt like "we accomplished a lot" at the region's CBS affiliate.
More:KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat
"I loved my time here, and again, since my announcement last month, this is just a small sampling of the support that you have shown me at home," he said. "I know two years isn't much time and even with some struggles over the last year, I wanted to reinforce the fact that my wife and I are leaving the state with mostly happy memories and more friends than we came with."
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