“A U.S. Army reservist who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was widely known as a white supremacist and regularly discussed his hatred of Jews while working at a New Jersey-based naval facility, according to new evidence revealed by federal prosecutors late Friday. The reservist, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who worked as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle and held a secret-level security clearance, was arrested and charged Jan. 15 for allegedly breaching the Capitol. At the time, prosecutors described him as an ‘avowed white supremacist’ and Nazi sympathizer, a determination based in part on evidence provided by a confidential source to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and a YouTube channel in which Hale-Cusanelli expressed those views. But Friday’s filing – a bid to keep Hale-Cusanelli jailed while awaiting trial – included newly revealed results of an extensive NCIS investigation following Hale-Cusanelli’s arrest.”

“That investigation included interviews with 44 colleagues at NWS Earle conducted on Jan. 20 and 21. Of those interviewed, 34 agreed Hale-Cusanelli held ‘extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities, and women.’ One contractor colleague said he discussed his dislike for Jews every day. A supervisor told investigators she had to admonish him for sporting a ‘Hitler’ mustache (images of which prosecutors extracted from Hale-Cusanelli’s phone). “A Navy Petty Officer stated that Defendant talked constantly about Jewish people and remembered Defendant saying ‘Hitler should have finished the job,’’ according to prosecutors’ summary of the report. The newly disclosed interview results are the latest evidence that the Jan. 6 insurrection, when a mob of thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results, included a contingent of white supremacists – in addition to extremist militia and paramilitary groups who used the cover of the mob to breach the Capitol” – Politico.