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Seth Abramson likes to write click bait sensationalist headlines, but I doubt this will ever rise above the level of a fever dream:
BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s Involvement in An Apparent Obama Assassination Plot Was Just Discovered—Then Systematically Covered Up
As America heads to the polls in early November, this would seem to be the biggest legal and political scandal US media is by and large doing nothing to draw voters’ attention to. Proof has the story https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-... It's behind a paywall but you can read if for free with a trial subscription or as a onetime freebie from a mobile device. It's impossible to copy large portions of the article so I can't provide more details.
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Ok, it turns out that you CAN read the article in its entirety for free on a PC. But after skimming it, it's not worth bothering with. The gist of it is this:
All of which brings us to Taylor Taranto, who accepted Donald Trump’s invitation to have him come to Washington on January 6, 2021 and enter the United States Capitol at a time that all concerned knew that it was closed to the public—a federal crime.
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The pattern here is clear.
Donald Trump is either going to kill his political enemies or get others to do it. And he’s so sure that the latter path is at once the easier and more likely one that he’s now engaged in a daily effort to “pre-but” allegations that he solicited an assassination.
Someone like Taranto is going to do something horrible—something even worse than the recent political assassinations of Minnesota Democratic politicians Trump first sociopathically ignored and then lied about. And when they do, they’ll do it because Trump solicited them to do it over social media knowing that outcome would result.
We must wait not a single additional day to say that this places Trump at the center of a ring of Attempted Assassination plots. The Taranto Plot targeting Barack Obama—who Trump hates because President Obama is Black and an exponentially better man—just happens to be the solicitation and cover-up we know about. That there are many others is certain, but since they haven’t been uncovered yet, the Taranto Plot should have become major international news—rather than been buried inside a single CNN report.
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Taranto was arrested in June 2023 after claiming on an internet livestream that he had a detonator the day before, law enforcement officials told CNN at the time, and was searching for underground tunnels that led inside Obama and others’ homes.
This all must be fake news because Dope has assured us repeatedly that all the political violence in this country is from the left./s
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I'm posting the link in a few places - thanks. I don't believe it. I don't disbeliee it. In the end, I feel its a headline that will get already tense and nutty people----even more tense and nutty.
#VeryStablePoliticalViolence
If Trump wants to do that, he should have Obama say certain things against *certain* powerful interests ---sort of like Charlie Kirk did.
Either way, speaking for myself only - i don't want anything bad happening to any of our Presidents.
Mind you i won't add that last part as i spread that link.
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Is this the story that Abramson's article is based on?
That and I think a few others. From Seth's article:
As CNN reports, when Trump personal attorney Pam Bondi—who, as we now know, takes direct daily orders from her client (via both telephone and text) on how to handle federal criminal cases—became Trump’s top agent at DOJ, she began reviewing cases related to January 6 and learned that the prosecutors in Taranto’s 2023 case, scheduled for a post-conviction sentencing hearing this fall, had done three things any federal prosecutor would do:
1. They referred to January 6 as a “riot,” because it was literally a declared Riot (it was formally declared a Riot at 1:50 PM by on-scene MPD commander Robert Glover);
2. they made reference to Taranto’s January 6 case, which was essential to explain his motive for the crimes he committed on that day and after—including the apparent Attempted Assassination of Obama—and to establishing the unique sort of danger he posed and would continue to pose to Americans at large, and
3. they referenced that Taranto’s June 2023 crime was committed in response to a Trump tweet, which was essential to explain that Taranto was the sort of man who not just once but many times—on January 6, as to Trump enemy McCarthy, as to Trump enemy Raskin, and as to Trump enemy Obama, at a minimum—was willing to commit violent, politically committed crimes inspired by the violent and suggestively vile rhetoric of Donald Trump, who as of 2025 is still in a position to issue such edicts to highly suggestible criminals like Taylor Taranto.
And as we might expect, when Trump and his personal lawyer (Bondi) discovered that federal prosecutors Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White had filed documents in federal court confirming—as was necessary to the case—that Taranto was uniquely susceptible to Trump’s words in committing his acts of (in colloquial terms) “domestic terrorism,” they did exactly what you would expect two people with “consciousness of guilt” to do: they suspended Valdivia and White from their jobs, doctored the federal record in Taranto’s case by ripping up the prior filings that mentioned January 6 (and therefore, implicitly, Trump’s December 2020 tweet inciting January 6) as well as Trump’s June 2023 tweet inciting an Attempted Assassination of Obama, and did not maintain the ardent push for a 27-month federal prison sentence for Taranto, which resulted in him being immediately released from custody post-sentencing despite the DOJ previously contending in its court filings that doing so could be “catastrophically” dangerous.
But Trump and his personal lawyer made it appear as those filings had never existed.
In doing so, they covered up a clear, unambiguous, unmistakable pattern of Trump soliciting politically motivated criminal conduct from fans of his who he knows are capable of committing politically motivated violent crimes—and obscured Trump’s long history of, following such incitements, thereafter engaging in a premeditated cover-up of the way he not only solicited a crime and stood to benefit from that crime but also was in a position to make his involvement in the incident disappear ex post facto.
Trump pardoned Taranto and made his role in Taranto’s January 6 crimes disappear.
He tampered with Taranto’s 2023 criminal file and thereby made his role in Taranto’s June 2023 crimes disappear.
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So, is this just more of the same "Trump being Trump and no one caring", or is this a big scandal that will soon blow up? My vote is on the former option.
