Video Shows DOJ Nominee Knew Rioter Pal Is Nazi

April 26, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists

The Washington Post reports:

Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin apologized this week for praising a pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendant who supported Nazi ideology and photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler, saying he didn’t know about the man’s extremist statements. But in videos and podcasts, Martin has defended the man since at least 2023, calling him a friend who was “slurred and smeared” by antisemitism allegations.

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, 35, was one of the first Capitol riot defendants charged and one of the first to enter the building through a smashed window. Court filings outlined his history of alleged antisemitic statements, posts and affinity for Hitler. At the time, Martin was a conservative activist and a Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” fundraiser and organizer. He defended riot defendants in court, on his podcasts and through a nonprofit led by Hale-Cusanelli’s aunt.

Martin on his podcast defended Hale-Cusanelli, interviewing him several times between June 2022 and October 2024. Martin has said his guest was wrongly charged by prosecutors with a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. He served nearly three years in prison before the Supreme Court overturned that count, leaving him guilty of only misdemeanors. He was among the nearly 1,600 Capitol riot defendants pardoned by Trump on Jan. 20.

Read the full article. Martin’s interim appointment expires on May 20, after which he will need to be confirmed by the Senate. His many podcast interviews with the Hitler-mustache rioter will surely be a main focus of that hearing, if it happens. Martin appeared here several times this week for his threats to medical and scientific journals.



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