Current Events > Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists

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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism

Amazing how multiple Trump officials were supporters of antisemitic extremists while somehow being totally unaware of their antisemitic views.

NPR has identified three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer," and a prominent Holocaust denier.

The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The Trump administration has used the fight against antisemitism as justification for the deportation of pro-Palestinian student protesters and funding cuts to universities.

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, argues that the administration is using antisemitism as a pretext.

Paul Ingrassia, currently serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, has ties to multiple figures widely known for promoting antisemitism.

In 2023, Ingrassia repeatedly praised the controversial "manosphere" influencer Andrew Tate and worked on his legal team. Romanian authorities have accused Tate of human trafficking. Florida's attorney general also opened an investigation into Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate. The two men deny all wrongdoing.

Ingrassia was also seen at a June 2024 rally in Detroit led by Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and white nationalist.

Ingrassia also supported the Patriot Freedom Project, which advocates for people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Before joining the Trump administration as the communications director for the White House Office of Management and Budget, Rachel Cauley served on the board of the Patriot Freedom Project. The nonprofit group was founded in direct response to the arrest of Hale-Cusanelli on Jan. 6 charges.

Cauley also handled media requests for the group. In 2022, the founder of the Patriot Freedom Project gave a lengthy interview to the explicitly white nationalist website Counter-Currents. (The editor-in-chief of Counter-Currents authored a book called The White Nationalist Manifesto and has written about "Hitler's Significance for Our Struggle.") After that interview received wider attention online, it appeared to be removed from the website.

Trump appointed conservative activist Ed Martin to multiple Department of Justice roles, after his nomination for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, failed. Martin's ties to Hale-Cusanelli played a key role in the collapse of his nomination to that role.

In August 2024, Martin praised Hale-Cusanelli as an "extraordinary man" and "extraordinary leader" and gave him an award for promoting "God, family and country." (Martin also gave Ingrassia an award immediately after Hale-Cusanelli spoke to the gathering.)

In podcast interviews, Martin called Hale-Cusanelli an "amazing guy" and "great friend."

Martin later denounced Hale-Cusanelli's views, saying he was unaware of his past antisemitic rhetoric.
"I condemn his comments and views in the strongest terms possible," Martin said in written testimony to the Senate. "I am not close with him."

Martin's history of interactions with Hale-Cusanelli, including at several events and in podcast interviews, have raised questions about the truthfulness of that testimony.

Well... yeah. It's the Donnie administration. I'd be shocked if they DIDN'T.

Unsurprising, despite their pro-Israel prostering.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, argues that the administration is using antisemitism as a pretext.

I'm so shocked.

The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

I, for one, am shocked at this development

You're saying the Trump administration is full of Nazis??
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Deej posted...

I, for one, am shocked at this development

There was another interesting nugget in the article if you want to be shocked again:

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.

I mean we have seen people wearing Nazi paraphernalia at various MAGA and other conservative rallies without any formal denouncement so this isn't shocking.

"Nazi administration has ties to other Nazis."

Gasp

Will_VIIII posted...

I mean we have seen people wearing Nazi paraphernalia at various MAGA and other conservative rallies without any formal denouncement so this isn't shocking.

We saw the head of the entire administration straight up do a Nazi salute... TWICE... at a rally.

It's because they're pro Israel, yet anti-Jew

Heineken14 posted...

We saw the head of the entire administration straight up do a Nazi salute... TWICE... at a rally.

Yup, there's an observable pattern here.

Euripides posted...

It's because they're pro Israel, yet anti-Jew

If you wanted to destroy Israel, as an enduring concept, you could hardly do better than supporting the current leadership.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w

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From the article:

Ingrassia, Cauley and Martin are not the only Trump administration officials connected to antisemitic extremists.

The article is mostly focused on those three in particular but it talks about a couple of others, including Kash Patel.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

There was another interesting nugget in the article if you want to be shocked again:

LMAO

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In podcast interviews, Martin called Hale-Cusanelli an "amazing guy" and "great friend."

Martin said in written testimony to the Senate. "I am not close with him."

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Unsurprising, despite their pro-Israel prostering.

I know maybe two people (married to each other) who think that Trump's support for Israel comes from a love of Jews, and they're both creepy, patronizing philosemites who are probably Christian Zionists. I know exactly one Jewish Trumper and even he knows that the administration is full of Nazis.

US policy has been this way for the better part of a century. Let Jews kill our enemies so that we don't have to. It's unsurprising that antisemites would continue this policy while encouraging resentment toward them.

It's just part of a larger right wing strategy. Weaponize the language of social justice against the left, isolate and smear protesters, students, activists, immigrants, etc. Make it dangerous to associate with them or anything that questions American policy or highlights our complicity.

They don't care about Jewish people and are some of the most likely to believe in old school antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people and banking, communism, immigration, feminism, LGBT rights, etc.

You mean the guy who used Nazi adjacent rhetoric on the campaign trail when talking about immigrants, who keeps advisors like Stephen Miller around, and didnt cut himself from Elon Musk as he was doing Nazi salutes has even more extremists in his administration?

Who could have seen that coming?

Stephen Miller has been around since 2015. This isn't news.

Srk700 posted...

You mean the guy who used Nazi adjacent rhetoric on the campaign trail when talking about immigrants, who keeps advisors like Stephen Miller around, and didnt cut himself from Elon Musk as he was doing Nazi salutes has even more extremists in his administration?

Who could have seen that coming?

Dont forget his dinner with Nick Fuentes.

legendary_zell posted...

It's just part of a larger right wing strategy. Weaponize the language of social justice against the left, isolate and smear protesters, students, activists, immigrants, etc. Make it dangerous to associate with them or anything that questions American policy or highlights our complicity.

They don't care about Jewish people and are some of the most likely to believe in old school antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people and banking, communism, immigration, feminism, LGBT rights, etc.

Yep they were always against middle eastern people

They are literally Nazis

darkace77450 posted...

Dont forget his dinner with Nick Fuentes.

(and Kanye West)

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darkace77450 posted...

Dont forget his dinner with Nick Fuentes.

Not just dinner.

Thanksgiving dinner.

But I was told they were fighting antisemitism! Who could have predicted this betrayal?!

Anyone. Anyone who knows anything about these people and wouldn't side with the Nazis.

Umbreon posted...

But I was told they were fighting antisemitism! Who could have predicted this betrayal?!

Anyone. Anyone who knows anything about these people and wouldn't side with the Nazis.

Who told you that?

WingsOfGood posted...

Who told you that?

"The nazis said they were fighting anti-semitism and we believed them!"
- the general American voting populace, because they also just really don't like Muslims either.

WingsOfGood posted...

Who told you that?

https://kansasreflector.com/2025/05/13/new-kansas-antisemitism-law-takes-aim-at-free-speech-does-nothing-to-protect-jewish-people/

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/anti-semitism-task-force-statement-on-additional-harvard-grants.html

The government is. Lol

There's two definitions of antisemitism.

There's the accurate version, which is hated of Jewish people. Typically expressed by Nazis.

Then there's the version our current administration invented, which is any and all criticism towards Isreal, especially in regards to the genocide their current leader is doing. Typically used by Nazis.

It's the impetus for their Israel policy imo