MAGA shills who claimed Trump wasn't calling Nazis Very Fine People just got BTFO again.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5107435/trump-capitol-riot-antisemitic-bedminster Twice this past summer, Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. has featured speeches from a rioter convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, who has a well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants.
One of those events — a fundraiser for a controversial nonprofit group that supports Capitol riot defendants — was personally endorsed by Trump himself in a video message that was played for the room.
“All of the people there, you’re amazing patriots,” Trump said in the video. “Have a great time at Bedminster.”
As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”
Court filings featured multiple pictures of Hale-Cusanelli at work with a “Hitler mustache.” A lengthy online video he posted in 2020 attacked what he called a “Hasidic Jewish invasion” of New Jersey and compared orthodox Jews to a “plague of locusts.”
According to reporting in the Asbury Park Press and Gothamist, Hale-Cusanelli antagonized a Jewish man in Ocean County, N.J. online prior to Jan. 6. Both news organizations reported that Hale-Cusanelli published the man’s address on social media and indicated that he would go to his house on the Sabbath, though no charges were filed.
In response to NPR’s reporting, Jewish organizations raised concerns about Hale-Cusanelli’s appearances at Trump’s golf club.
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“As an organization representing the Jewish community, we believe that those who promote antisemitism — or prejudice or racism or bigotry in any form — should not be given a platform and encouraged to share their views,” said Keith Krivitzky, the managing director of the Jewish Federation of Ocean County. “We also believe that it is vital that those in positions of leadership stand up to hate and extremist views.” “We hope that the Trump campaign will disavow this individual and his antisemitic views if in fact he was given a platform at a Jan. 6 defendants fundraising event,” said a spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League. “Former President Trump hasn't simply ignored or given a pass to these antisemitic extremists,” said Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, “In many ways, he's embraced them and helped mainstream their ideas in our political rhetoric.” NPR pointed out that Trump has repeatedly endorsed the nonprofit Patriot Freedom Project, a group founded in direct response to Hale-Cusanelli’s arrest. The group’s founder, Cynthia Hughes, calls herself an “adoptive aunt” to Hale-Cusanelli and spoke about his case at a Trump campaign rally. In 2023, Trump spoke at another Patriot Freedom Project event at Bedminster alongside Hughes. The Trump campaign official clarified that Trump has “not been made aware of the comments that [Hale-Cusanelli’s] made.” Regarding Hale-Cusanelli’s speeches at the former president’s Bedminster property, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “President Trump did not attend these events, and, of course, he absolutely condemns bigotry and hatred of any kind.” Hale-Cusanelli did not respond to NPR’s requests for comment sent through Hughes and his attorney. In the past, Hale-Cusanelli has referred to the Anti-Defamation league as “parasitic opportunists and Jewish supremacists.”
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On Jan. 6, Hale-Cusanelli stormed the U.S. Capitol, but was not accused of physical violence against police. Video evidence presented at his criminal trial showed him moving barriers protecting the building, waving in fellow rioters, interfering with an attempted police arrest and screaming at officers, “the revolution will be televised, c***.” Prosecutors presented text messages he sent about the 2020 election, where he used an antisemitic slur and accused Democrats of “n***** rigging”. The jury found him guilty of four misdemeanors, as well as one felony, obstruction of an official proceeding. The Supreme Court has since limited the use of the felony obstruction charge in Jan. 6-related cases, and Hale-Cusanelli is appealing his conviction. If he wins his appeal, he could regain his gun rights. At Hale-Cusanelli’s sentencing hearing, Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, cited his history of antisemitic remarks. “Statements and actions like yours make [Jewish people] less safe and less confident they can participate as equal members of our society,” McFadden said. Hale-Cusanelli, a former U.S. Army reservist, apologized at the hearing to members of Congress and the Capitol Police. “My behavior that day was unacceptable,” he told Judge McFadden. “I disgraced my uniform and I disgraced the country.” Judge McFadden sentenced Hale-Cusanelli to four years in prison. Hale-Cusanelli was able to secure release from custody in Dec. 2023, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Since then, he has called himself a political prisoner and embraced conspiracy theories that the Jan. 6 attack was a “setup” by government provocateurs. He also claimed that his extreme rants amounted to internet trolling to provoke a reaction, and said that he has Puerto Rican and Jewish ancestry, telling one interviewer “I don’t hate Jews.” He has denied that he’s a Nazi sympathizer or white supremacist.
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. Trump has been linked to antisemitic extremists before. In 2022, the former president had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier, who used a bullhorn to urge Trump supporters on Jan. 6 to “break down the barriers and disregard the police.” (Fuentes did not personally breach the building and has not faced criminal charges.) Trump told the extremist group the Proud Boys, whose founder has a history of antisemitic remarks, to “stand back and stand by” at a 2020 presidential debate. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump initially declined to disavow an endorsement from David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. “This is not an isolated situation,” said Spitalnick. “This is who, in many ways, he has chosen to surround himself by.” Trump has made support for the Jan. 6 defendants a central plank of his 2024 presidential campaign. His first official campaign rally opened with a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" sung by Jan. 6 defendants in jail. He has referred to the defendants as "patriots" and “hostages,” and promised to issue pardons to convicted rioters, including those who assaulted police officers. Approximately 140 officers were injured in the attack on the Capitol. The two events at Trump’s Bedminster property featuring Hale-Cusanelli both took place over the summer. In June, Hale-Cusanelli spoke at a Patriot Freedom Project fundraiser. In August, Hale-Cusanelli received an award for promoting “God, family and country.” Conservative activist Ed Martin, a leader of the 2024 Republican National Convention’s platform committee, praised Hale-Cusanelli as an “extraordinary man” and an “extraordinary leader.” (Among the other award recipients were former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn and several other figures closely tied to the former president.) In an email to NPR, Martin did not address Hale-Cusanelli’s past antisemitic remarks.
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“NPR, the government-funded propaganda outlet that has lied at every turn about what happened on J6 is at it again,” he wrote. As he received his award from Martin at Bedminster, Hale-Cusanelli attacked the Biden administration. “We'll never make America great again, unless we acknowledge the true depth and scope of this tyrannical and despotic regime,” he said, “[and] the extent to which they will go to destroy this country and everything that we hold dear.” The following day, Trump held an event at Bedminster dedicated to fighting antisemitism, where he said, “we believe that this vicious outbreak of militant antisemitism - it’s very militant - must be given no quarter, no safe harbor, no place in a civilized society.” Hale-Cusanelli has hailed Trump as a “God Emperor,” posted photos from near the front of a Trump rally and showed off a MAGA hat that was apparently signed by the former president. After his second appearance at Trump’s club, he posted on social media, “Great time at Trump Bedminster YET AGAIN!”
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/pol/ will, and is ignoring this.
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>troonimmigrants mad no one wants to take their 756th debunked agitprop astroturf thread seriously
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>>1341699 >Video evidence presented at his criminal trial showed him moving barriers protecting the building, waving in fellow rioters, interfering with an attempted police arrest and screaming at officers, “the revolution will be televised, c***.” Remember when they tried to say the cops welcomed them in?
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>>1341806 Remember when they said they didn't have any weapons?
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>>1341806 >>1341811 >>1341837 Remember when people could afford groceries and houses?
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>>1341839 I don't have a problem with groceries or housing, do you?
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>>1341806 >>1341837 Remember when Trump told them he'd be there with them at the Capitol and they believed him?
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>>1341839 >Whataboutism We're talking about Trump hosting a Nazi. Remember that group of people who Trump called 'Fine People' in Charlottesville?
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I don’t see any problem here. Don’t care, still voting Trump
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>>1341868 As long as you admit Trump called Nazis very fine people, we don't have a problem.
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And Trump just defended White supremacist Laura Loomer.
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Must be cool to be a trump supporter because you get to vote with all the Neo-nazis, White-supremacists, and uneducated Rednecks. They're the ones who really know what is best for our country.
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>nazis ARE very fine people It goes without saying but here we go, don’t care still voting Trump
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So Trump voters are subhuman Nazis. Thanks for admitting what everyone else already knew.
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>>1341699 >Prosecutors presented text messages he sent about the 2020 election, where he used an antisemitic slur and accused Democrats of “n***** rigging”. That this has any weight at all in a court is so dumb.
>Prosecutors presented evidence of him saying two naughty words This is the kind of argument a child uses to make their sibling look bad
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>>1341697 You will not divide us
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>>1342089 >biggest pro-Israel party supports nazis Democrat brains going down the drains
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>>1342119 Eschaton immanentizing evangelical antisemites, yes. Many americans are batshit insane
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>Republicans who are pro-Israel anmd pro-Jews voting Trump, who is so pro-Israel and pro-Jews there are those in /pol/ who refer to them as 'MIGA' Collective rightards crash into the trash
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>Republicans who are pro-Israel and pro-Jews voting Trump, who is so pro-Israel and pro-Jews there are those in /pol/ who refer to them as 'MIGA' Collective rightards crash into the trash
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>>1342096 That's to prove he's a racist along with a coup terrorist.
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>>1342121 >Eschaton immanentizing evangelical antisemites What?
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What the fuck does echaton immanetizing mean
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>>1342154 >>1342156 Religious utopianism through the apocalypse, in this case. Do your googles next time
my last name is Pussy-Steel I'm tuff
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Hale-Cusanelli? First, these i-ties have tainted blood. 2nd, Hale- Cusanelli means he is a pussy and He adopted his mom's last name.
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>>1342156 Bringing about the end-of-days.
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As a Nazi president, I would put my Jewish son-in-law in multiple important White House positions of power, and I'd definitely enjoy a ~60% approval rating in Israel throughout my presidency. I'd also pardon Lil' Wayne, Kodak Black, and tell ICE to let 21 Savage out of custody while he resolves his immigration status. Because that makes sense.
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>>1342293 Don't have to actually be a nazi to be constantly surrounded by nazis or to take their nazi advice seriously
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>>1342293 >Because that makes sense. It only doesn't make sense if you're a fucking moron and your brain is only capable of interpreting reality in the most one dimensional, zero sum game view possible. This is like "I can't be racist because I have a black friend" tier logic.
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>>1342293 what a coincidence that all of those bring money to trump
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>>1342300 So, I can be racist and like black people?
Good to know.
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>>1342309 >So, I can be racist and like black people? Yes, you can be racist and also performatively do things that make idiots like you think that pardoning a popular black public figure means you can't be racist. Trump, a politician, doing things to make black people like him and vote for him means he can't be racist. I struggle to understand how dumb you have to be to think that makes sense.
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>>1342326 Democrats were the KKK though. So, what now?
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what a low energy shill he is
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>>1342388 I don't have the time or the energy to explain the history of the dixiecrats to you. You are not smart enough to have this conversation.
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>reeee you're all nazis This shit again? Yeah this has gone really well for the party of censorship, kangaroo courts, forced medical experimentation, and child abuse.
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>>1342419 we've heard your script before faggot. come back with something new
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>>1342419 >the party of censorship, kangaroo courts, forced medical experimentation, and child abuse >Goebbels denying others of more than just their free speech >Gestapo >Mengele >Dirlewanger But enough about those Trump said were 'Very fine people'.
Allowed the slightest shred of political power, Trumptards would do exactly the same to those not exactly like them. Charlottesville ensured they will never be allowed any power whatsoever. Good.
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>>1342412 The people who stared the KKK are trying to convince everybody they didn’t.
If you tell a lie long enough…..
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>>1342412 >Don't have >But actually can't Weird.
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>>1342412 He's sea lioning, it's typical of conservatives to run away from their sins, they do the same thing with Slavery.
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>>1342493 Whose a conblubbubablub you fucking fascist eurotrash whore?
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>>1342444 >The people who stared the KKK are trying to convince everybody they didn’t The people who started the KKK were southern conservatives. During the time of the KKK everyone in the southern conservative states voted Democrat and all of the northern liberal states voted Republican. The parties switched. Now both regions and ideologies vote the exact opposite. If you want to learn more look up the history of the dixiecrats.
>>1342490 If you're so blatantly unaware of U.S. history that you think modern Democrats are the same party that started the KKK you're not worth taking seriously.
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>>1342388 conservatives were and are the KKK
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>>1342501 Done projecting?