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sl8

(13,780 posts)
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 11:45 AM Sep 2022

Speakers at Pennsylvania Trump rally tied to January 6 rioters and neo-Nazi

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-pennsylvania-january-6-nazi-b2159295.html

Speakers at Pennsylvania Trump rally tied to January 6 rioters and neo-Nazi

Speakers both had relatives convicted in January 6 riots at Capitol

Josh Marcus
San Francisco
12 hours ago

Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday featured two controversial speakers with family ties to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

Among the speakers was Cynthia Hughes, who helps organise a support group and legal defence funding for accused Capitol rioters.

Her nephew, Tim Cusanelli, was convicted in May of yelling “advance” before he and a mob of people entered the US Capitol building on January 6.

The Army reservist had Nazi views, a Hitler-style mustache, and once claimed the genocidal German fascist “should have finished the job,” according to law enforcement officials who interviewed the former Navy servicemember’s colleagues.

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Speakers at Pennsylvania Trump rally tied to January 6 rioters and neo-Nazi (Original Post) sl8 Sep 2022 OP
being a vet llashram Sep 2022 #1

llashram

(6,265 posts)
1. being a vet
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 12:29 PM
Sep 2022

who in Vietnam had to fight the klansmen-confederates also. I wonder today just what the situation is in the service(s) today. Oh never mind I'm sure I know with a dangerous killer clown like trump around, agitating for treason.

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