Are they even trying to hide it?
Cynthia Hughes, who runs a support group for J6ers, spoke at tonight’s Trump rally. She told the story of her nephew Tim Cusanelli, a convicted Capitol rioter — and Nazi sympathizer, who said “Hitler should’ve finished the job.” This is their poster child for J6 “injustice.”
An internal Navy probe found 34 colleagues who said he held “extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities and women.” FBI found racist memes with the N-word on his phone. He told an informant that he hoped for “civil war.”
He wasn’t charged with violent crimes, but has been in jail since his arrest on 1/17/21. This is one of the gripes his aunt Hughes mentioned at the Trump rally. So why is he in jail? Judge was afraid he’d turn his violent rhetoric into action if let out.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/capitol-nazi-sympathizer-hale-cusanelli/index.html
Cusanelli was convicted on all counts at a jury trial this year. The judge — a Trump appointee, who has been skeptical of some J6 cases — panned Cusanelli’s testimony on the witness stand, where he claimed he didn’t know Congress met at the Capitol.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/politics/timothy-hale-cusanelli-verdict/index.html
He’ll be sentenced later this month. For his part, Cusanelli has denied being a member of any white supremacist groups. He testified that he is half Jewish and half Puerto Rican — and that his racist slurs were always meant to be “ironic” and “self-deprecating humor.”
Originally tweeted by Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) on September 3, 2022.