Well, you thought Donald Trump’s gratitude towards “good-hearted” “I Love Hitler” Ye and the “very fine people” who rioted in Charlottesville was practically the end of it, didn’t you?
Enter Timothy Hale-Cusanelli. He is notorious for not only going to prison for storming the US Capitol on January 6, but he also is a big-time Nazi sympathiser, making comments such as “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead” whilst working at a naval weapons station. He even sported a “Hitler moustache”, and as an insurrectionist, he used antisemitic slurs and even accused Democrats of “[N-word] rigging” during the 2020 presidential election.
But given that Trump has felt indifferent, at best, to the likes of David Duke and even embraced the likes of Nick Fuentes (who has apparently decided to not back the former president as of late), it may not come as a surprise that Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, which is located in Bedminster, New Jersey, hosted two events featuring Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, one in June when Hale-Cusanelli spoke at a Patriot Freedom Project fundraiser, and one in August where he received an award from Ed Martin, one of the figureheads of the platform committee for the 2024 Republican National Convention, for promoting “God, family and country”. Other figures who have won this award include Boris Epshteyn and disgraced former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
“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!”
Although Trump held an event the day after that calls for fighting against “militant antisemitism”, he was unaware of Hale-Cusanelli and the deplorable comments he has made, according to a Trump campaign official. The former president has tried to distance himself from Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, if in response to NPR’s reporting.
