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Showing posts with label doxing. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 06, 2023

Did Trump Dox Obama?

According to the INKY, former President Donald Trump doxed former President Barack Obama.  In response, one of his myrmidons allegedly traveled across the country with deadly intent: 

"Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van he had driven cross-country and had been living in, according to a Justice Department motion that seeks to keep him behind bars.

"On the day of his June 29 arrest, prosecutors said, Taranto reposted a Truth Social post from Trump containing what Trump claimed was Obama’s home address. In a post on Telegram, Taranto wrote: 'We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s.' That’s a reference to John Podesta, the former chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.

"Taranto also told followers on his YouTube live stream that he was looking to get a 'good angle on a shot.'"

Doxing someone is in itself legal, but it certainly helps establish criminal intent as prosecutors ponder Trump's state of mind when he exhorted a mob to take over the capitol building on January 6, 2020. 

I personally believe doxing someone's specific address should be a crime. It is a dangerous practice employed all too often by left and right extemists.