So we're in the Capitol building,
legislative building, and we just stormed it.
>> So that is an individual, 37 year old Taylor Taranto of Seattle, Washington, as
you can tell from the video, participating in the insurrection on January 6.
Well, why would we be talking about a particular insurrectionist this long after
January 6?
Well, he popped up once again in the news,
this time a fugitive being pursued by the Secret Service.
See, Secret Service spotted him within blocks of the home of Barack Obama and
his family, according to law enforcement.
Taranto fled and Secret service chased him, he was running toward the Obama home,
but was apprehended before reaching it.
Now, that by itself isn't necessarily suspicious, people go near the home all
the time, in this case, he had a van that was parked close to where he was arrested.
There were multiple weapons in it and
materials to make some kind of explosive device akin to a Molotov cocktail.
It had not yet been assembled, according to law enforcement sources, he had said he
had explosives, but first responders only found the materials to make them.
According to senior law enforcement official, he had apparently been in
the Washington, DC area for a couple of months, seen camping out in his van near
the DC jail where many of the January 6 defendants were being held.
I guess he felt some sort of continued affiliation of them.
Some of his live streams were apparently posted while he was in the DC area,
here is actually one of them, it's rough stuff, but take a look.
>> That's it, that's as far as you can get with the First Amendment, get it?
To Tony Podesta's house.
And John Podesta, and we didn't get an interview, but that's a start, right?
See how it works?
First Amendment, you just say First Amendment.
I control the block, we got them surrounded.
>> Yeah, so, look, wanting to go protest outside of the house of someone notable,
Tony Podesta, whoever is definitely a thing, and you can have debates about
frustrations about First Amendment rights being curtailed.
The issue is when you want to go way beyond First Amendment rights, and
you wanna get into the area of violence.
When you in particular,
continually come back to this slogan of got them surrounded, actually,
in the lead up to what just happened in the news, I think that's a bleed.
I think that's on True Social, and it references a 2017
opinion piece by Phyllis Schlafly, that Donald Trump posted,
that had information allowing you to find where the Obamas lived.
So I don't know if that's originally where this guy got that information,
but he apparently was at least promoting that Trump had allowed you to know where
the Obamas were.
And look, again, you can be frustrated with Obama or any politician,
but when you're stockpiling weapons and materials to make explosives and then
camping outside of their house in a van and talking about having them surrounded,
I think a lot of people are gonna have a problem with that.
What do you think, Brett?
>> Yeah, I love this, he laments the First Amendment's protections,
but I'm sure if anyone were to talk about,
someone comes onto your property, what are you allowed to do?
You allow to put a bullet in them.
They don't understand the inherent hypocrisy in their position.
No one does, no one likes admitting they're hypocrite,
that person just wants to feel awesome all the time.
And that kind of menacing should be illegal, I don't think people
should go to anyone's house, I think it's just the worst thing you can do.
It's not actually the worst thing you can do, but it is a bad thing,
you should not go to people's houses and stand outside, there's tons of things
worse, but it's just, it's not good, it's not helping your cause.
You can disagree with me if you want, obviously, but I just think that in this
situation, the focus needs to then go back to the people who are encouraging them.
I think what this guy's doing is bad, and
I think those who encourage him to do stuff like this are horrible.
They're the truly evil people in this world, they're the ones that know exactly
what they're doing, they know exactly whom they're emboldening,
and they know that their stated reason for
doing it is different from their actual reason for doing it.
In these situations, Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, their actual reason for
telling you to go to someone's house is just to have the craziest supporters
do the craziest things.
Not to make America better, not to make America great, not to make America safe,
but just to menace the people that you determine to be your enemies,
not because their policies are bad, but because they're a threat to your own
power, which you will defend by sending your minions to people's house.
>> 100%, yeah, he claimed in one of his live streams that he had a detonator.
>> So, Molotov cocktail, you mean this guy had a van full of booze and rags and
bottles?
>> Yeah, I don't know.
Look, that's a good point.
If he had detonators, then that goes beyond just booze and whatever.
Again, imagine, if you will, he succeeds in burning down or
shooting up the home of the Obamas.
Whatever, I don't know if that's what the plan is,
we will wait to see what happens with the charges and all that.
These are, at this point, allegations, there's some live streams and
other pieces of evidence that seem to indicate it, but whatever,
we're still at the early phase of this.
If he had succeeded, and he had literally murdered all of the Obamas,
do you think that Fox would be a full day of, my God, we've gone way too far?
>> No.
>> This is unacceptable,
everybody needs to rethink the way they're talking about this, and
we may disagree with these people, but obviously violence isn't acceptable.
We've crossed a line we should ever cross as a nation,
who the hell thinks that they would say anything like that?
They would say, what's his name?
Taylor Taranto?
Probably trans activist, probably leftist, is antifa, blah, blah, blah,
conspiracy theory nonsense, there is no line we can cross that they will back off
from their promotion of violence as a solution to their political problems or
at the very least a distraction from solutions to political problems.
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