Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol

Twice this past summer, Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. has featured speeches from a rioter convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, who has a well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants.

One of those events — a fundraiser for a controversial nonprofit group that supports Capitol riot defendants — was personally endorsed by Trump himself in a video message that was played for the room.

“All of the people there, you’re amazing patriots,” Trump said in the video. “Have a great time at Bedminster.”

As part of his criminal case over Jan. 6, federal prosecutors described the rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, as a “white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer,” who told his coworkers at a naval weapons station that “Hitler should have finished the job” and “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”

Court filings featured multiple pictures of Hale-Cusanelli at work with a “Hitler mustache.” A lengthy online video he posted in 2020 attacked what he called a “Hasidic Jewish invasion” of New Jersey and compared orthodox Jews to a “plague of locusts.”

According to reporting in the Asbury Park Press and Gothamist, Hale-Cusanelli antagonized a Jewish man in Ocean County, N.J. online prior to Jan. 6. Both news organizations reported that Hale-Cusanelli published the man’s address on social media and indicated that he would go to his house on the Sabbath, though no charges were filed.

In response to NPR’s reporting, Jewish organizations raised concerns about Hale-Cusanelli’s appearances at Trump’s golf club.

“As an organization representing the Jewish community, we believe that those who promote antisemitism — or prejudice or racism or