Jeanine Pirro Covers Up Donald Trump’s Doxing Conspiracy
If it weren’t for a recent shift in DOJ’s prosecutorial focus, Jeanine Pirro’s wildly corrupt effort to suppress the larger criminal context of Tayler Taranto’s stalking of Barack Obama in 2023 would be no more than a garden variety authoritarian effort to rewrite history.
As ABC and Politico have written, two AUSAs who’ve been prosecuting Taranto, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, submitted a sentencing memo documenting how the Navy veteran with long-standing mental health issues first participated in January 6 and then, years later, drove his van containing guns and ammunition to stalk Kalorama, looking for Obama while ranting, “Gotta get the shot, stop at nothing to get the shot. This is where other people come to get the shot;”
The language in the memo about the January 6 attack and Taranto’s role in it attracted some press attention.
On January 6, 2021, thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol while a joint session of Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. Taranto was accused of participating in the riot in Washington, D.C., by entering the U.S. Capitol Building. After the riot, Taranto returned to his home in the State of Washington, where he promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6, 2021.
And so Pirro (or someone at DOJ) did what all corrupt sycophants would do: put the two attorneys on leave for speaking the truth about Pirro’s liege.
Then, two of the AUSAs who bolloxed the Sydney Reid case, Jonathan Hornok and Travis Wolf, filed notices of appearance and submitted a new sentencing memo, asking for the same sentence. The description of January 6 as a riot, above, was removed (but not a quote of Taranto mentioning it).
More scandalously, the revised sentencing memo excised the description of how Taranto came to be stalking the former President, the passage in red, below: Because Donald Trump, as a private citizen, first doxed Obama.
The next day, on June 29, 2023, then-former President Donald Trump published on a social media platform the purported address of former President Barack Obama. Taranto re-posted the address on the same platform and thereafter started livestreaming from his van on his YouTube channel. Taranto broadcast footage of himself as he drove through the Kalorama neighborhood in Washington, D.C., claiming he was searching for “tunnels” he believed would provide him access to the private residences of certain high-profile individuals, including former President Obama. He parked his van, walked away from it, and approached a restricted area protected by the United States Secret Service. He walked through the nearby woods and stated, “Gotta get the shot, stop at nothing to get the shot.” [my emphasis]
As I said, if it weren’t for a recent shifted prosecutorial focus, criminalizing doxing partly as a way to criminalize otherwise peaceful protest against ICE and CBP, this kind of memory hole would be merely another instance of gross corruption and the human waste of professional careers destroyed because the aspiring dictator refuses to take accountability for his own actions.
But DOJ has recently arrested a number of people for doxing under 18 USC 119, a law that specifically protects law enforcement officers: first Gregory Curcio (who not only posted the address of an ICE lawyer, but invited others to swat her; his indictment included a domestic violence claim). Then Cynthia Raygoza, Ashleigh Brown, and Sandra Carmona Samane, who livestreamed from the house of an ICE officer they followed home.
Here’s how Bill Essayli, who regularly made shit up even before getting exposed for playing dress-up as a US Attorney the other day, said about the latter.
“Our brave federal agents put their lives on the line every day to keep our nation safe,” said Acting United States Attorney Bill Essayli. “The conduct of these defendants are deeply offensive to law enforcement officers and their families. If you threaten, dox, or harm in any manner one of our agents or employees, you will face prosecution and prison time.”
According to the indictment, on August 28, 2025, the defendants followed the victim – an ICE agent – from the Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles to his personal residence. The defendants livestreamed on their Instagram accounts their pursuit of the victim and provided directions as they followed the victim home, encouraging their viewers to share the livestream. Their Instagram accounts used to livestream the event were “ice_out_of_la,” “defendmesoamericanculture,” and “corn_maiden_design.”
Upon arriving at the victim’s personal residence, the defendants shouted to bystanders while livestreaming on Instagram that their “neighbor is ICE,” “la migra lives here,” and “ICE lives on your street and you should know.”
The defendants publicly disclosed on Instagram the victim’s home address and told viewers, “Come on down.”
Ashleigh Brown is the woman whose charges for being assaulted by an FPS officer were dismissed this week after defense attorneys discovered his criminal record. Unlike the Taranto case, there’s no claim the women did or would have been armed.
Mostly, they told this guy’s neighbors he was la migra, one of the men who kidnap workers from outside Home Depot.
Donald Trump’s doxing of Barack Obama was more consequential than what these three women did. Taranto was armed and, not least because of his mental health problems, dangerous.
Donald Trump’s own DOJ says the kind of doxing Donald Trump did should hold a five year sentencing in prison.
And DOJ just took ham-handed steps to pretend Trump didn’t do just that.
Exactly. Great article and to the point, and also related to a fine article over at TPM.
Kudos, Marcy.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/without-online-trolls-there-would-be-no-donald-trump
I’m sure there are also field reports about Taranto given his background (especially the mental health part) because it is not unexpected that he’d blame Convict-1 at some point for his failure to join the crowd as promised on J6. I’m sure Bondi’s got a hundred agents scrubbing files like mad.
This revelation follows a pattern of more overt threats to political enemies. One wonders if there are Signal chats as well with WH minions trying to impress the boss.
The DOJ has handed any protester charged with doxxing a wonderful piece of evidence to support a defense of “selective prosecution.” I can see the argument before the judge now (either in a brief or in court) . . .
“The government put before another court evidence that Donald Trump doxxed Barack Obama, and yet, Donald Trump was not indicted. When superiors of the lawyers for the government who put this before that court caught wind of what was in their brief, those lawyers were not just removed from that case, but suspended from the DOJ, and the new lawyers refiled the same sentencing memo WITHOUT the reference to Trump’s doxxing. Unless and until Donald Trump is charged with doxxing, and the appropriate members of DOJ hierarchy are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice for trying to hide Trump’s doxxing behavior, there is no way my client should face these charges. ‘Doxxing for me, but not for thee’ is no way to operate a democracy.”
Or words to that effect.
It won’t work. But I would be surprised if the women accused of doxing didn’t try it.
Is there any actual evidence that Pirro herself did this? It seems awfully…well, organized to have come from our Jeanine. She has, in her current job, appeared flailing and distracted at best, and an action like this would imply some higher-order observational skills. Maybe Blanche’s? Or is it beneath him?
I love Peterr’s selective prosecution argument. Wish I had thought of that!
As a matter of protocol, Pirro absolutely would be the one to do this, as she is their superior.
Now it is possible/probable/almost certainly the case that Pirro was directed to do this by Bondi, Blanche, or (through them) any number of folks in the WH? Sure. But Pirro absolutely would have been the one to say “march them out!” because they work(ed) directly for her.
Peterr, I probably did not phrase my question well. What I meant was, What are the odds that Pirro thought of this herself? Yes, I’m aware that she supervised the two now-sidelined prosecutors. But it does seem like one of those commands that must have come from above her. I mentioned Blanche; I was thinking of Bondi, too, but ultimately I’m guessing this comes from Stephen Miller, who seems to be running DOJ with all the legal nuance of a bulldozer crushing the East Wing.
Which is why I appreciate your comment above, about selective prosecution of doxxers.
To the tune of Catch a Falling Star
Take a fallen star
and let him pack the SCOTUS
he will never serve a day
Take a fallen star
and let him pack the SCOTUS
he will never serve a day
For luck will let him
grab ‘em by the short hairs
when he’s a star
And just when they are sure
they’ve got him cornered
he’ll have a Roberts in his pocket
Take a fallen star
and let him pack the SCOTUS
he will never fade away
he will never fade away
That was so good I mistook it for Savage Librarian! Kudos.
Thank you.
I think a better angle is how Jeanne Pirro and Trump put Secret Service lives on the line. Armed veteran with mental health issues isn’t going to come near Obama without Secret Service being there or nearby, and therefore are targets as well.