The FBI arrested near the home of the former president of USA, Barack Obama, in Washington a man with a military arsenal had threatened attacks against various targets, including the head of state, via live broadcasts conducted online.
Is about Taylor Taranto, 37-year-old conspiracy theorist linked to the QAnon theory who participated in the storming the capitol on January 6, 2021. The prosecutor has requested that she remain in prison awaiting trial because she is a “serious and direct threat against the public”.
The man had activated the alert after the FBI discovered a live broadcast on June 28, in which he threatened to do blow up his van in a reactor nuclear research in Gaithersburg, 25 km north of Washington.
“He made several statements indicating that he intended to blow up his vehicle at NIST, including a statement that it had a detonator, that he was on a ‘one way mission,’ and that the vehicle was self-driving, so he would not have to be near him when he ‘exploded,'” prosecutors alleged, noting that there is a nuclear reactor on the agency campus.
Threat to Barack Obama
One day after said transmission, a judge of Washington DC issued a warrant for his arrest on charges related to the storming the capitol. Hours later, taranto began broadcasting again from his truck driving through the neighborhood of the Obama.
“While I was walking, made several troubling statements about residences in the area, saying that he was looking for ‘entry points,’ that he had ‘control’ of the block and ‘surrounded them,’ and that he was going to find a way to the ‘tunnels under their houses,'” they said. The prosecutors.
On streaming from the neighborhood where he lives Obama, Taranto explained that he was “looking for a good shooting angle”. Two pistols, 400 bullets, explosives and a machete were found in his truck.
Federal agents managed to locate and arrest him. In addition to Obama, the former Hillary Clinton campaign manager, John Podesta, on whom various conspiracy theories of QAnon.
Taranto’s targets also included the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, and Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin.
Source: Ambito
