NPR reports:
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. 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.”
A lengthy 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.” 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.”
Read the full article. As you can see below, the Harris campaign has already pounced. Last year I covered a report that Hale-Cusanelli was recruiting in prison. In September 2022, he was sentenced to four years, but was released in December 2023 with credit for time served before trial.
New: Trump’s golf club hosted a Nazi sympathizer and convicted January 6 insurrectionist.
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