{"id":72639,"date":"2025-05-13T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/13\/trial-opens-for-navy-vet-arrested-near-obamas-dc-home-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:25:43","slug":"trial-opens-for-navy-vet-arrested-near-obamas-dc-home-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2025\/05\/13\/trial-opens-for-navy-vet-arrested-near-obamas-dc-home-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial opens for Navy vet arrested near Obama\u2019s DC home in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only a few Capitol riot defendants remained jailed after President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2025\/05\/12\/experts-qatar-gifted-air-force-one-may-be-security-upgrade-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2025\/05\/12\/experts-qatar-gifted-air-force-one-may-be-security-upgrade-disaster\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> issued mass pardons to supporters who joined a mob\u2019s attack on Jan. 6, 2021. A trial for one of them \u2014 a military veteran charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/extremism-disinformation\/2023\/07\/16\/navy-vet-arrested-near-obamas-home-indicted-on-firearms-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/extremism-disinformation\/2023\/07\/16\/navy-vet-arrested-near-obamas-home-indicted-on-firearms-charges\/\">federal firearms offenses<\/a> and a hoax bomb threat \u2014 began Tuesday with testimony about his 2023 arrest near former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2016\/01\/11\/what-obama-s-last-state-of-the-union-holds-for-troops-vets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2016\/01\/11\/what-obama-s-last-state-of-the-union-holds-for-troops-vets\/\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> Washington home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor Taranto was arrested in Obama\u2019s neighborhood on the same day in June 2023 that Trump posted on social media what he claimed was the former president\u2019s address. Investigators said they found two guns, roughly 500 rounds of ammunition and a machete in Taranto\u2019s van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto was livestreaming video on YouTube in which he said he was looking for \u201centrance points\u201d to underground tunnels and wanted to get a \u201cgood angle on a shot,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469.8.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469.8.0.pdf\">according to prosecutors<\/a>. He reposted Trump\u2019s message about Obama\u2019s home address and wrote, \u201cWe got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta\u2019s and Obama\u2019s.\u201d He was referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-podesta-climate-change-biden-china-ad35175ad4126925b99daaaec5d36020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-podesta-climate-change-biden-china-ad35175ad4126925b99daaaec5d36020\">John Podesta<\/a>, who chaired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/01\/10\/this-jailed-sailor-blames-hillary-clinton-for-his-sentence-and-wants-trump-to-set-him-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/01\/10\/this-jailed-sailor-blames-hillary-clinton-for-his-sentence-and-wants-trump-to-set-him-free\/\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s<\/a> 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto wasn\u2019t the only Jan. 6 defendant whose criminal case didn\u2019t end when Trump provided clemency to all of the more than 1,500 people charged in the riot. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-pardons-capitol-riot-jeremy-brown-4a06a284fd2f8a2bd723b1a26970a2e7\">In some cases<\/a>, Trump\u2019s Justice Department concluded that the pardons covered separate offenses, such as charges for guns seized from homes during Capitol riot investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Taranto\u2019s case, however, prosecutors said the firearms offenses he faces are \u201cwholly unrelated to the pardon.\u201d Taranto, a Navy veteran from Pasco, Washington, is charged with carrying firearms without a license, with illegally possessing large-capacity magazines and ammunition and with making a hoax bomb threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by Trump, is hearing testimony and will decide the case without a jury. The government\u2019s first trial witness was an FBI agent who led the frantic search for Taranto after Capitol police investigators watched his livestreamed video and heard what they believed to be a bomb threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prosecutor, Samuel White, told the judge that the video captured Taranto outlining his \u201cominous, threatening plan.\u201d Taranto said on the video that he was in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on a \u201cone-way\u201d to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto\u2019s lawyers said he didn\u2019t have any bomb-making material and wasn\u2019t near the Gaithersburg institute. Defense attorney Pleasant Brodnax said the video shows Taranto was merely joking in an \u201cavant-garde\u201d manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe believes he is a journalist and, to some extent, a comedian,\u201d Broadnax said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto has been jailed since his arrest. The <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469.27.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469\/gov.uscourts.dcd.257469.27.0.pdf\">judge concluded<\/a> that he poses a danger to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto was charged with four misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6 attack. Prosecutors said he joined the crush of rioters who breached the building. He was captured on video at the entrance of the Speaker\u2019s Lobby around the time that a rioter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/01\/03\/a-martyr-air-force-veteran-ashli-babbitts-past-tells-a-more-complex-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/01\/03\/a-martyr-air-force-veteran-ashli-babbitts-past-tells-a-more-complex-story\/\">Ashli Babbitt<\/a>, was shot and killed by an officer while she tried to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto\u2019s wife told investigators that he came to Washington because then-House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/09\/21\/house-gop-plans-to-pass-defense-budget-fail-again-as-shutdown-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/09\/21\/house-gop-plans-to-pass-defense-budget-fail-again-as-shutdown-looms\/\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> was offering to release unseen video of the Jan. 6 attack. Taranto made \u201cominous comments\u201d about McCarthy on video, saying, \u201cComing at you McCarthy. Can\u2019t stop what\u2019s coming. Nothing can stop what\u2019s coming,\u201d according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taranto was attacked and injured by other inmates in the wing of the Washington jail where other Jan. 6 defendants were detained while awaiting trial, according to his lawyers. 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