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Taylor Franklin Taranto

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Taylor Franklin Taranto is a Pasco, Washington man whose name has been in the news twice now, for two different reasons, and this record keeps them straight. First, January 6, 2021. Taranto was in the crowd that entered restricted Capitol grounds. Prosecutors eventually tied him to disorderly conduct and parading counts from that day. On January 20, 2025, President Trump's clemency order for January 6 defendants covered that conduct. Fact, sourced, done. Second, a separate matter, not January 6. In June 2023, Taranto was arrested near former President Obama's Washington neighborhood after livestreaming while carrying firearms and making statements prosecutors treated as threats. He was charged with weapons and hoax-related offenses, and, because he had also never been individually charged for January 6 until this point, prosecutors added the Capitol-related counts to the same case at that time. This is a post-clemency, separate-conduct matter, and we are not folding it into the January 6 story to make either side of it look better or worse than the record shows. Where that second matter stands: it worked through the D.C. federal court for more than two years. Reporting from October 2025 states Taranto was sentenced to time served on the weapons and related charges. That sentencing followed public controversy after prosecutors on the case were placed on leave for how they characterized January 6 in court filings, a separate Justice Department personnel dispute that is documented but does not change the underlying facts of Taranto's case. What this does not prove: the January 6 clemency does not erase or excuse the 2023 conduct near a former president's residence. Those are two different sets of facts under two different legal standards, and the record treats them that way. What this does prove: January 6 conduct, addressed by clemency. A separate 2023 arrest, addressed by a 2025 sentence of time served. Both documented, neither exaggerated. THE CASE RECORD Name: Taylor Franklin Taranto Location: Pasco, Washington Case: 23-cr-00229, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia January 6 conduct: Restricted-building and disorderly conduct counts, covered by the January 20, 2025 clemency Separate 2023 matter: Weapons and hoax-related charges near a former president's residence, sentenced to time served, October 2025 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.