Politico: “A U.S. Army reservist charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 who was subsequently identified by numerous military colleagues as an overt white supremacist has been ordered detained pending trial. Federal district court Judge Trevor McFadden said he wrestled with whether Timothy Hale-Cusanelli’s ‘odious’ beliefs were enough to justify pretrial detention, given that he isn’t charged with committing violence at the Capitol. ‘There is substantial evidence here that for a number of years the defendant has apparently had kind of a near-Nazi racist ideology that has led him to use racist language, sexist language, has been generally engaged in hateful conduct, if not necessarily violent conduct toward a number of people with whom he’s had contact,’ McFadden said. ‘Having said all that, we don’t typically penalize people for what they say or think.'”

“But McFadden said that the ‘close case’ ultimately requires detention, in part because Hale-Cusanelli’s behavior and rhetoric had been escalating toward potential violence and that he presents a threat to a confidential source who helped identify him. Hale-Cusanelli is the latest of the 300-plus people charged with breaching the Capitol to face pretrial detention, a step typically intended for those viewed as an ‘imminent threat’ to the safety of their community. He’s also the most prominent of several figures arrested for their Jan. 6 actions who have been linked to white supremacist ideology.”