Exclusive | Unhinged notebooks of armed man arrested at Trump Golf Course revealed including Melanias schedule
A deranged man busted with a gun at President Trump’s golf club allegedly amassed a chilling trove of hundreds of pages on Secret Service agents, golf course sketches and copies of the First Lady’s daily schedule.Jeanine John Taele, 38, a decorate Marine veteran from Downey, appeared before Judge John Lonergan in Los Angeles Wednesday.Taele was scruffy and dressed in a suicide smock for the preliminary hearing as prosecutors revealed additional details about his arrest.
Taele had several notebooks with 208 pages containing drawings and sketches of the golf course, lists of Secret Service schedules, details of individual security members and copies of Melania Trump’s schedule, prosecutors said.He had also allegedly done research in “going off the grid.”Judge Lonergan called the allegations against Taele “alarming in this day and age with the violence that is creeping into our everyday lives especially with the partisanship with the political climate.”Taele remained mostly expressionless as it was revealed he is currently mentally unfit to stand trial.
His bail was revoked, keeping him behind bars until his next court appearance Sept.9.Federal agents first spotted Taele at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles on July 31 while assessing security for the commander-in-chief’s August 4 visit, according to prosecutors.Taele allegedly walked around the course wearing an earpiece while photographing and filming agents’ security-planning activities.He returned to the course on August 2 and approached federal agents, authorities said.During his exchange with agents, Taele falsely claimed he worked for the State Department and had been assigned to a security detail, according to prosecutors.
He also allegedly admitted having a loaded firearm in his pickup truck in the club parking lot.Sheriff’s deputies detained Taele after learning he was wanted in the unrelated robbery case.During a pat-down, they allegedly found a 16-round magazine containing hollow-po...