Posted on 05/28/2022 1:07:41 PM PDT by Coronal
A former U.S. Army reservist described by prosecutors as a Nazi sympathizer was convicted Friday of storming the U.S. Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who worked a security contractor at a Navy base when he joined the pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, was also convicted of disorderly conduct and other misdemeanors.
Hale-Cussanelli took the stand in his defense and claimed he didn't know that Congress met at the Capitol building.
"I know this sounds idiotic, but I'm from New Jersey," Hale-Cusanelli said, according to WUSA-TV. "In all my studies, I didn't know there was an actual building that was called the 'Capitol.' It's embarrassing and idiotic."
Hale-Cusanelli's trial was the fifth before a jury and the seventh overall for a Capitol riot case. The first four juries unanimously convicted the riot defendants of all charges. Roughly 300 others have pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from the riot, including seditious conspiracy and assault.
Prosecutors said Hale-Cusanelli openly espoused white supremacist and antisemitic ideology and wore an Adolf Hitler-style mustache to work. On his cellphone, investigators found photos of him with the distinctive mustache and combed-over hairstyle associated with the Nazi leader.
Hale-Cusanelli had a "secret" security clearance for his job as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey. He also lived on the base with a roommate who reported him to the Naval Criminal Investigation Service and secretly recorded a conversion about the Capitol riot.
During the trial's opening statements Tuesday, a Justice Department prosecutor said Hale-Cusanelli stormed the Capitol because he wanted to kick off a civil war and create "a clean slate."
Defense attorney Jonathan Crisp told jurors that "groupthink" and a desperate desire "to be heard" drove Hale-Cusanelli to follow a mob into the Capitol.
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Ummmmmmmmmmm. That's probably a felony right there, huh?
I am amazed they went through the formality of a trial.
He was “guilty” in the minds of the jury long before the trial began. Anyone can lie their way through voi dire.
when he joined the pro-Trump mob?
doesn’t sound like a MAGA man to me.
These trials are a sham and I hope Trump pardons every single one
and ..kick off a civil war and create “a clean slate.”
That’s a dim-wad agen- da.
Really? A Nazi sympathizer with a hyphenated name in this day and age? I doubt any self-respecting Nazi would have one.
The Commie infected scum in the DNC sure love them some show trials.
“convicted of disorderly conduct and other misdemeanors.”
So basically what requires paying a fine and goes on probation for a year. BUT. Every other line, “NAZI NAZI NAZI.”
I can not find if he was granted bail or was locked in that DC dungeon sans bail or trial all this time.
More information warfare.
Not unless the hyphen was a “von”
Though Prussian aristocrat flag officers etc had enmity for Hitler and vice Versa
People who merely attended the January 6 rally and didn’t breach teh Capitol will be convicted and locked up, but Sussman will go free, because you cannot get a fair trial in DC. This is how Dhimmicraps operate.
And the political-media Establishment will tell us there is nothing wrong with that.
Roman Catholic? Nazi supporter? Who knew? Just that the Nazi party was the natural and necessary result of the Catholic Church, was actively backed by the Pope, elevated Catholic clerics to high positions(e.g. Msgr. Tiso in Slovakia), and was far more powerful in Catholic Germanophone regions than in Christian ones (being unpopular in the Calvinist Rhineland-Pfalz).
They don’t apparently have proof he was “pro-Trump.” Wanting to kick off a civil war is not an originalist constitutional position. But it is the position of a lot of leftists, and some in the pro abort crowd. Instead, the article makes a lame effort smearing Trump with the propaganda technique “guilt by association.” Release all the evidence against him so we can find out he is a socialist. Neonazis are socialists, not conservatives.
He looks a lot younger than expected. You’d think a Nazi sympathizer would be at minimum 100 years old by now.
If he did all this openly at work, why wasn’t he let go long before Jan 6?
No complaints? Really?
If he did all this openly at work, why wasn’t he let go long before Jan 6?
No complaints? Really? All complaints were AFTER Jan 6?
And why hasn’t the press plastered this guy all over the world, he should be their dream poster boy.
Unless he was a paid actor, in which case they might not want anyone to take a really close look at the guy, how he got there, who he was traveling with. Did he attend Trump’s speech? Or was he already at the Capitol like CNN’s paid actor Sullivan, and the aspiring theater actor with the shaman outfit.
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