Post by the Scribe on Jul 8, 2023 16:02:08 GMT
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.
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.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday sought to keep in custody an armed Taranto, 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. 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.
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.'"
Taranto was spotted by Secret Service within blocks of Obama's house, and was apprehended as he was running toward it.
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.
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.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday sought to keep in custody an armed Taranto, 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. 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.
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.'"
Taranto was spotted by Secret Service within blocks of Obama's house, and was apprehended as he was running toward it.