Multiple #Trump ofcls have links to #antisemitic #extremists
Trump campaigned on a pledge [🤔] to fight #antisemitism.
"Antisemitic bigotry has no place in a civilized society," Trump said in 2024.
However, …antisemitism…found a place within his administration.
NPR has identified 3 Trump ofcls w/close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer," & a prominent #HolocaustDenier.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism
The #Trump admin has used the fight against #antisemitism as justification for #deportation of pro-#Palestinian #student #protesters & #funding cuts to #universities.
Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, argues the admin is using antisemitism as a pretext.
"If the administration were serious about countering antisemitism, first & foremost they wouldn't be appointing people w/antisemitic & other extremist ties to senior roles within the administration," Spitalnick said.
#PaulIngrassia, currently serving as the #Trump White House liaison to #DHS, has ties to multiple figures widely known for promoting #antisemitism.
In 2023, Ingrassia repeatedly praised the controversial "manosphere" influencer #AndrewTate & worked on his #legal team. Romanian authorities have accused Tate of #HumanTrafficking. Florida's attorney general also opened an investigation into Tate & his brother, Tristan Tate. The two men deny all wrongdoing.
The top of Ingrassia's IG has a pinned photo of himself w/ #AndrewTate, who identifies as a "#misogynist."
"The Tate brothers provide an opportunity for a better future—one that inspires, rather than degrades, men," reads Ingrassia's caption.
Tate "has leaned heavily into unabashedly #antisemitic rhetoric, perpetuating #Holocaust #revisionism, spreading #ConspiracyTheories about #Israel, praising #Hamas, performing #Nazi salutes & encouraging people to embrace & openly engage in #racism,” - ADL.
Ingrassia was also seen at a June 2024 rally in Detroit led by #NickFuentes, a #HolocaustDenier & #WhiteNationalist.
As Fuentes began his speech, his supporters chanted, "Down with #Israel!"
"I don't know about you," Fuentes said at the rally, "but calling Donald #Trump a #racist only makes me like him more."
Amanda Moore, a freelance journalist, spotted Ingrassia in the crowd & reported for The Intercept that he stayed for approximately 20 minutes.
"I've seen him at other events. I'm familiar with his social media," Moore told NPR. "And for some reason, he chose to stand directly in front of me, so he was hard to miss."
Livestream footage shows Ingrassia approaching #NickFuentes, smiling before he spoke as Fuentes' supporters chanted, "We want Nick!"
On social media, Ingrassia has written that "dissident voices" like #NickFuentes belong in *#conservative* #politics. He wrote a Substack post titled "Free Nick Fuentes," criticizing the platform X for banning Fuentes over hate speech. Fuentes' X account was later reinstated.
(#Trump dined w/Fuentes, alongside #KanyeWest …at his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022. Trump said he "knew nothing about" Fuentes. Ye has since recorded a song glorifying #AdolfHitler.)
Ingrassia supported the #PatriotFreedomProject, which
advocates for people charged in connection w/the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection.
"The tragedy of Jan. 6, 2021, was not that it was an attack on our democracy, let alone an insurrection," Ingrassia said at a Patriot Freedom Project fundraiser in Jan 2024. "But rather, it was an opportunity for the deep state to finally remove its mask & begin prosecuting & jailing innocent American citizens like Tim, like so many of the people here today."
The "Tim" whom Ingrassia referenced is Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who was convicted of multiple nonviolent offenses for storming the Capitol on #Jan6 & was later pardoned by #Trump.
Federal prosecutors described Hale-Cusanelli as a "#Nazi sympathizer" who once went to work at a naval weapons station with a "#Hitler mustache." He also recorded a lengthy #antisemitic video rant in which he compared Orthodox #Jews to a "plague of locusts."
Ingrassia, responding to emailed questions from NPR, said, "I denounce any hateful or incendiary remark Mr. Hale made. But my advocacy for J6ers is not based on any particular remark, but on the principle that all Americans are entitled to due process & free speech."
[reminder, Ingrassia works w/ #DHS, which is currently deporting hundreds of individuals without #DueProcess of any sort]
The communications director for the White House Office of Management & Budget
Before joining the #Trump admin as the communications director for the #OMB, #RachelCauley served on the board of the #PatriotFreedomProject. The nonprofit group was founded in direct response to the arrest of Hale-Cusanelli on #Jan6 charges.
#RachelCauley also handled media requests for the group. In 2022, the founder of the #PatriotFreedomProject gave a lengthy interview to the explicitly #WhiteNationalist website #CounterCurrents. (The editor-in-chief of Counter-Currents authored a book called The White Nationalist Manifesto & has written about "#Hitler's Significance for Our Struggle.") After that interview received wider attention online, it appeared to be removed from the website.
Later that year, #RachelCauley attended part of Hale-Cusanelli's #criminal trial & sat with his supporters.
On social media, Cauley referred to the trial as a "clown trial" & said Hale-Cusanelli's conviction was a "complete miscarriage of justice."
Reached by phone this week, Cauley told an NPR reporter three times, "You can send me an email," before hanging up.
She did not respond to subsequent emails.
#Trump appointed *#conservative* activist #EdMartin to multiple #DOJ roles, after his nomination for #USattorney for #DC, failed. Martin's ties to Hale-Cusanelli played a key role in the collapse of his nomination to that role.
In Aug 2024, Martin praised Hale-Cusanelli as an "extraordinary man" & "extraordinary leader" & gave him an award for promoting "God, family & country." (Martin also gave Ingrassia an award immediately after Hale-Cusanelli spoke)
