By Clara Harter and Ana Ceballos
Los Angeles Times
August 4, 2026 - 4:15 pm
LOS ANGELES — Hours earlier President Donald Trump is scheduled to header a Tuesday evening fundraiser astatine his Rancho Palos Verdes play course, authorities announced that they had arrested a heavy equipped idiosyncratic seen wandering the grounds Sunday.
L.A. County sheriff’s deputies responded to the play people astir 3:30 p.m. Saturday aft national agents saw a suspicious antheral taking photographs and appearing to show security-planning activities.
Deputies detained the man, who was identified arsenic Jeanine John Taele, 38, of Downey. They recovered a loaded mag successful his pants pouch and a loaded pistol and further ammunition successful his car successful the parking batch astatine Trump National Golf Club. They besides determined helium was nether probe for robbery by the El Segundo Police Department.
Taele was arrested connected suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm and possessing prohibited ammunition.
On Monday, sheriff’s detectives and FBI agents searched his Downey residence and recovered an alarming stash of weapons — including an illegally modified AR level rifle, a .45-caliber pistol, assemblage armor, high-capacity magazines and bulk pistol ammunition. Detectives recovered aggregate notebooks containing “concerning statements” and 2 vigor awesome devices.
The probe is ongoing, but authorities person identified “no credible menace to our communities.”
President Trump was aboard Air Force 1 en way to Los Angeles erstwhile the Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest. Trump is hosting a Republican Party fundraiser astatine Rancho Palos Verdes play people connected Tuesday evening arsenic portion of a two-day sojourn to California and Nevada.
Reporters are not allowed wrong the event, wherever a White House spokesperson said the president intended to tout his wins successful advancing taxation cuts and securing the border, portion denouncing the “radical policies of Democrats similar Gavin Newsom.” The president past plans to present remarks connected the system astatine a Las Vegas casino Wednesday earlier returning to Washington, D.C.
Tuesday evening’s fundraiser marks Trump’s 2nd travel to L.A. since returning to office, with the archetypal taking spot successful January 2025 erstwhile helium toured the fire-ravaged areas of the Pacific Palisades.
Newsom utilized Trump’s sojourn to telephone attraction to the information that galore residents successful the Palisades and Altadena continued to hold for his medication to dole retired wildfire alleviation aid.
“Donald Trump promised he’d ‘take care’ of Los Angeles firestorm survivors,” Newsom said successful a Tuesday day connection connected X, but “18 months later, he’s flying backmost to LA. Not to help, but to big a fundraiser astatine his play club.”
Since the Eaton and Palisades fires, California has submitted much than $1.5 cardinal successful Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursement claims for exigency effect and infrastructure repairs, but lone $37 cardinal successful backing has been approved frankincense far, according to the governor’s office.
Trump, for his part, ignored disapproval astir the hold for wildfire alleviation connected Tuesday and alternatively took to societal media to tout his administration’s economical achievements.
He wrote successful a Truth Social station that investments successful the U.S. system and much “factory activity” were grounds of however good the state was doing. “The Fake News and the Dumocrats are doing everything they tin to distract people’s thoughts from these MASSIVE Successes, but it’s getting harder and harder for them to do,” Trump wrote. He added: “This is the GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA, and we’re conscionable getting started.”
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