Trump rally highlighting the alleged Nazi sympathizer case is criticized

• Zoe Lofgren criticized former President Donald Trump.
• He included a speaker at his rally on Saturday.
• He emphasized the plight of a January 6 rioter.

Representative Zoe Lofgren, a member of the House committee looking into the January 6, 2021 uprising, criticized former President Donald Trump on Sunday for including a speaker at his rally on Saturday who emphasized the plight of a January 6 rioter and alleged Nazi sympathizer who was found guilty on all five charges he faced in May.

In reference to the current President’s recent comments about “MAGA Republicans,” the California Democrat said on CNN’s “Newsroom” that perhaps President Biden didn’t need to add the word “semi” when he warned that there are certain elements in this extreme party that are semi-Fascist.

Late in August, Biden called the Republican stance taken by those who supported his predecessor “semi-fascism” and chastised them.

Cynthia Hughes, the head of a support group for January 6 defendants like Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, whose case went global after the Justice Department revealed images of him sporting a characteristic “Hitler moustache,” spoke at Trump’s event in Pennsylvania.

While there are hundreds of other defendants in the Capitol riot case to use as examples, Trump’s selection of a speaker highlighting such a case drew a sharp retort from Lofgren, a member of the House Judiciary Committee: “There is no doubt that being an Adolf Hitler supporter classifies one as a fascist. This does concern me, in my opinion.”

Trump used his first rally since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago to pander to his base, railing against Biden, whom he called a “enemy of the state,” the FBI, and the Justice Department, and only briefly praising the Pennsylvania Senate and gubernatorial candidates he was in Wilkes-Barre to support.

Signaling support for Capitol rioters was just one example of this. The former President recently declared that if he runs and wins in 2024, he would “very, very seriously” consider fully pardoning the Capitol rioters.

Hughes used Hale-imprisonment Cusanelli’s since his detention over two years ago, whom she referred to as her nephew, as an illustration of what she called the general unfairness perpetrated against defendants.

Hale-Cusanelli was not charged with any violent acts, but the judge in his case concluded that he should be kept behind bars until his trial because he posed a threat to the public and that there was a chance that his alleged long-held neo-Nazi ideas could lead to a “intensification of violence.”

About two months after Hale-arrest Cusanelli’s in January 2021, federal Judge Trevor McFadden stated, “I am quite concerned about the utterances after January 6 implying that the defendant is looking forward to a civil war.”

Trump appointee McFadden stated during the hearing in March 2021 that “every judge is frightened of releasing someone who subsequently goes crazy.” There is a lot in this that worries me about that.

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