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<\/p>\nA security contractor at a New Jersey Naval Weapons Station charged in the storming of the Capitol is a white supremacist and anti-Semite who told co-workers that \u201cHitler should have finished the job,\u201d according to a new court filing against him.<\/p>\n
Forty-four co-workers of Army reservist Timothy Hale-Cusanelli were interviewed, and 34 said he held \u201cextremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities and women,\u201d according to the motion filed Friday in federal district court in the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n
One co-worker told investigators that Hale-Cusanelli, 36, said at work that Adolf Hitler \u201cshould have finished the job,\u201d in reference to the Holocaust. Another said he \u201cconstantly\u201d denigrated Jewish people.<\/p>\n
He was once reprimanded for mockingly sporting\u00a0a Hitler mustache at work; he would\u00a0\u201cmake racial jokes and not be quiet about it;\u201d he was considered \u201cunstable,\u201d and some co-workers were \u201cafraid\u201d of him, according to the motion.<\/p>\n
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Hale-Cusanelli had \u201csecret\u201d security clearance for his work, which gave him access to some sensitive information. He admitted to investigators that he stormed the Capitol to disrupt the certification of electoral votes for President Joe Biden, according to the motion.<\/p>\n
The federal government sought to block Hale-Cusanelli\u2019s pretrial release due to his \u201cfantasy of participating in another Civil War,\u201d the court document stated.<\/p>\n
Hale-Cusanelli has argued in court that he was merely \u201cfollowing the entreaties of then-commander in chief\u201d Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His comments came to light just as Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) hailed the almost universally white Capitol rioters in a radio interview Friday as people who \u201clove this country\u201d and \u201ctruly respect law enforcement\u201d\u00a0who would \u201cnever do anything to break the law.\u201d He said he would have been \u201cconcerned,\u201d however, had the rioters been Black Lives Matter protesters. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died during the attack.<\/p>\n