The circumstances surrounding Jeanine John Taele, 38, canvassing Trump National Golf Club ahead of President Trump’s visit certainly indicate Taele was planning a 4th assassination attempt on the life of President Trump.
Taele was arrested at Trump National Golf Club in CA with fake credentials, a fake badge and claims of being a State Dept security agent, while taking pictures and filming the venue. Taele carried armor piercing and hollow point bullets with a loaded handgun in his vehicle. [LA Sheriff’s Office]
When agents searched his home, they found an illegally modified AR style rifle with barrel shortened, body armor, high-capacity magazines, unlawful ammunition and “multiple notebooks containing concerning statements.” “He’s now facing 4 state charges and a federal charge.”
Taele was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm (25400(a)(1) PC) and Possession of Armor-Piercing/Prohibited Ammunition (31310 PC).
Recognizing the potential security implications surrounding the incident, detectives from the Sheriff’s Department Major Crimes Bureau assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) obtained and executed a search warrant yesterday, August 3rd, for Taele’s residence in the city of Downey.
During the search, investigators recovered:
• An illegally modified AR platform rifle
• A 1911 .45 caliber pistol
• An AR platform upper receiver
• Body armor
• High-capacity magazines
• Bulk pistol and rifle ammunition
• Multiple notebooks containing concerning statements
• Two radio signal devices
The investigation is being conducted in close coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the United States Secret Service. Additional charges could be added as the investigation continues. Taele remains in custody. The investigation is ongoing. (source)
Who names a male “ Jeanine”?
Ain’t his Momma I tellya that!
Jeanine John Taele…
Personally…I would have gone with J.J. 🙂
Jumping Juju. Taele
More than likely Haitian or possibly Jamaican. He was a US Army veteran so he’s not illegal but the guy’s name is a dead giveaway!
My mom, born in 1922, was supposed to be a male-since that’s what gramps wanted first!
Named her Willlis Jeanette ____. After that she answered to Jay or just J. Miss you momma. We have an awesome President right now, glad they kept him safe.
Funny you mention this
My Mom born in 1909 was supposed to be a boy and they named her Willie B…
She was the best mom ever and was called B or Billie.
Obama’s mother was named Stanley because her father wanted a boy.
….and so did her son.
It used to be very common in the South for family names to be used as given names – one of my grandmother’s given names was ‘Henry’
Same happened here Grandpa named Sterling, mom (first born) named Sterline.
Maybe an absent father, as in “A boy named Sue.”
Taele is a former U.S. Marine who served from 2008 to 2016, including combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Filipino and male. I suppose Jeanine is not considered a female name with Filipinos.
Thank you for that. I was about to cue up “A Girl Named Sue” By Johnny Cash
Love it!
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“Filipino and male. I suppose Jeanine is not considered a female name with Filipinos.” That is incorrect: Jeanine is a popular name for females in the Philippines, but males generally don’t have that name.
The guy doesn’t remotely look like a Filipino! Looks more Jamaican. The first name is Haitian and his last name is Jamaican. Probably a Carribean mix.
But, but, but what does he identify as ??
“Incarcerated”
What do I win?
Military records say Filipino.
BTW, I was just guessing (“suppose”) when I wrote Jeanine was used as a male name for Filipinos so I’m confident Greg Miller is correct.
What’s in a name?
Depends…
Brits, too…
Evelyn Waugh, author
Hilary Benn, politician
Add the French…
My mother who loved classical music thought until her older age that Camille Saint-Saëns was a woman.
And here …
Ashley Wilkes, effete Southern gentleman (“Gone With the Wind”)
Just a few…
Marion Wayne. (John)
Actually Marion Robert Morrison
The correct British pronunciation is…
Eve-A-Lynn
Eve as in Adam and Eve.
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“Jeannine” will serve him well in prison.
The MSM and politicians keep stirring up the potential assassins from the multitude of crazed leftists or other loonies. Lord help us.
“Lord help us.”
I fully believe The Lord DID help us already by protecting President Trump BEFORE the attack.
God is good!
KOOKOO for CoCo Puffs!
Yikes!
God Bless Donald Trump, and keep him safe!
looks like a muslim amish white male with brownish pigment
Looks like that made-up race: a “white hispanic.”
Wonder if they found his FBI badge yet
more likely “they” found the iranian flag and paychecks from the IRGC
“2 Radio Signal Devices” were among the things found on his person.
‘Wonder why he needed those???????
We are living in very disturbing times. Sad.
The JTTF is involved? That ain’t good.
It will be interesting to see how the connection to JTTF is made.
Note: No mention of other conspirators.
Radio equipment implies others involved…
Or for listening to SS & Fibie comms.
deductive reasoning
Could the radio equipment possibly have been meant to detonate an explosive?
A lot of the weapons stuff is fluff.
I have an AR-15 with a 7 ” barrel, too short for a legal rifle but since it has no stock, by ATF rules, it’s a pistol.
I have hollow point ammo, legal most places but not in Calif.
I have bulk ammo, not to assassinate but to defend my home against the hoards that Biden & Co brought in.
I have high capacity magazines, same reason.
We shouldn’t get sucked into the gov’ts hair on fire dialogue when it comes to firearms.
Maybe the guy was just a harmless caddie checking out the golf course.
Are you a criminal charged with armed robbery and multiple firearms violations in 2025 out on bail, surveilling a future Presidential visit location while attempting to impersonate a law enforcement officer, illegally concealing a firearm, illegally possessing a firearm, and possessing an unregistered NFA item?
It’s preposterous that you are attempting to conflate this arrest with mere possession of firearms and ammunition. This is not a law abiding citizen.
“mere possession of firearms and ammunition.”
Did you ever hear of law enforcement officers lying, planting evidence, etc.?
In NYS, you are forced to surrender your firearms if someone obtains an order of protection against you, even if they perjured themselves on the complaint. You have to clear your name and obtain a certificate of disposition to get them back.
Then you just move to Florida!
You forgot this wannabe assassin had armor-piercing ammo, too
You don’t know that. Did you see it? Armor-piercing ammo is not prohibited by the 2A.
i am always surprised when a forum such as this buys so quickly into what is clearly designed to be 2A scare quotes. “armor piercing” OMG!!! lol
I believe Charles was highlighting how the p!$$-stream deflects to the armaments. Maybe calm down an octave.
no one is conflating the two. if he is guilty of real crimes, charge him. but there is no provision for “not a law abiding citizen” in 2A, nor for short barrel rifles and high capacity ammunition and other scare terms.
charging someone solely with illegitimate gotcha laws, because you have nothing else, is no different than NY state passing a law to retroactively go after trump.
You saved me from listing mine. Same, same.
“Illegal”, “unlawful”, “high-capacity”, “armor-piercing”, etc, etc, etc.
I don’t see anything here prohibited by the 2A of the U.S. constitution. Pay attention to the narrative folks. If he committed an actual crime, charge him. Otherwise, all I see is “a bunch of stuff we forbid you to own or possess.”
Pretty sure impersonating a federal agent is a crime.
It is, but the difference between a misdemeanor or a felony in too many cases is based on the political persuasion of the perpetrator.
Then charge him with putting on a costume and demeanor typically reserved for a select few.
But you probably don’t visit a Trump golf Course for fun.
uh, the “armor-piercing ammo” is a problem
Not according to supreme law of the land in the 2A.
It is less of a problem then one might think when there are plenty of rifle cartridges that can penetrate a ballistic vest (ie kevlar) without the steel/ceramic plates inserted to mitigate those larger cartridges specifically as opposed to smaller pistol cartridges like the 9mm.
why?
The problem in this country is there is no severe punishment for crime any longer. Any attempted assassination of a president should automatically, if convicted in a speedy trial with no appeals, receive the death penalty immediately carried out.
Exactly. Same with frivolous lawsuits meant to derail a presidency.
Those who participate in frivolous Lawfare suits should receive a minimum of ten years in the slammer for maliciously interfering with the business of our nation.
And televised and streamed.
i actually think thats exactly what a lot of these ccreeps want: the attention and the glory.
no televised, dont even name the useless turd. just disappear them.
I get the sentiment you express but lets not forget what the Feds did to hundreds of J6’ers.
I once lived with a woman named Jeanine! Nameberry, BabyNamesStudio and The Bump all say Jeanine as a girl’s name!
Maybe there are men out there named Jeanine who aren’t trans, but that would rare. Maybe we’ll come to find out Taele’s the secret boyfriend of Lance Twiggs?
How many Americans have been killed so far in trump’s Iran debacle?
Pay attention to the content of SD’s post, Skippy.
And to answer your question, a whole helluva lot fewer than most previous conflicts at this stage. That is not intended at all to minimize the sacrifice of each of those lost.
Lemme see here….
Subject matter is about yet ANOTHER attempt (#4) on President Trump’s life and you ask the TOTALLY unrelated and completely obvious trolling question:
“How many Americans have been killed so far in trump’s Iran debacle?”
Answer:
How many lives, globally, have been saved since President Trump stopped the Iranians from getting the nuclear weapons that President Obama essentially enabled and PAID THEM IN AMERICAN CASH to try to build?
Oh……Dudes are dudes, chics are chics, and neither can be the other no matter how much they hop up and down and scream and cry about it….
😁
sit down, the Adults are having a discussion
Fewer than were killed by leftists in the BLM insurrection of 2020 and beyond.
Dear Lord, please protect OUR President!
And while you are at it, please punish this evil.
Amen
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“Dear Lord, please protect OUR President!
And while you are at it, please punish this evil.
Amen”
Amen.
The pretty part……looks like The Lord protected President Trump before the attack began!
That he was radicalized is not in dispute, but one wonders on whose behalf he was working: Iran, CIA, FBI, Great Britain, Muslim Brotherhood, DSA, Cuba, Ukraine, Canada, Denmark, James Comey … the list is a long one!
using the triple name is becoming a telltale sign of psyop….
except in the case of Tyler Robinson for some reason?
It looks like more pre-planning was being utilized than on the prior attempts. I wonder what tipped off the agents to begin with?
May this loser feel rear entry in prison.
ouchie!
Somebody gave this loser President Trump’s itinary; that is the most important arrest.
at least in general terms, thats published pretty widely. to wit, the prez appearance at butler was known for weeks. you can go on the website and see a daily agenda and upcoming events
He’s looking at serious jail time. Possession of an unregistered short barreled rifle is a felony with 10 years in prison max sentence. Also charged with receiving a large capacity magazine (illegal in GavinUtopia) and is also wanted in connection with a November 2025 robbery in El Segundo, for which there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
Idiot.
as has been pointed out above, these are illegitimate and unconstitutional “laws.” no one should be celebrating using these to get someone.
if thats all they have on him, he should be set free.
None of this would surprise me to be an attempt to manufacture outrage by a 3-letter agency or agencies to achieve a particular goal or outcome.
The easily-influenced radical leftist nutjobs continue to try really hard. And those inspiring all of this – the anti-democratic Democrat party politicians and their MSM propaganda dispensers – will be equating it with non-existent “right-wing violence” to deflect from their support for this kind of thing. They will be doing that during the whole news cycle out through this weekend. Despicable, every one of them.
Old fashion ways of getting info is much needed now. Who paid him.. threatened and failed on terminating him. Inside job perhaps?
Much of what this would-be assassin had was in reality unremarkable. His behavior and a few of his possessions, however, seem to tell the tale.
This is California, so consider anything they say to “sensationalize” the firearms as just that…
I’m guessing the magazines were standard capacity, 30 rd mags.
Pretty much any modification to an AR-15 in that state is illegal there. Any sort of fire grip or hand stop, suppressor, muzzle break, forced-reset trigger, collapsible or telescoping stock, even a pistol grip? is verboten there.
And what the sensationalist media considers bulk ammo would make anyone that frequents a range laugh.
This isn’t meant to downplay what President Trump has to deal with, but it grinds my gears at how easy it is for the media to demonize civilian possession and use of firearms, and how easily their intended targets buy it all up.