on the east coast, largely a different group of people. there is a centralized mission and message there. in large part, they re to one service, and it s, you know, protecting the people who support donald trump in general. that s their larger goal. ben, i guess to follow up on that, would you say the movement is stronger today than it was on january 6th? you actually think they ve gained strength post insurrection versus having it be diminished with all of the, you know, legal that they re going through and the violence that happened on that day? i definitely believe that s true. i think it is important to note that they will discard leaders willy-nilly. you see people like for example, in charlottesville at this trial, those people are persona non grata. cantwell is referred to as the crying nazi. richard spencer used to be a
question is withdrawn. he is now asking him detailed question about adolf hitler s he asked him if he s run mein kampf. yes. multiple times? yes. asked whether he believed hitler murdered 6 million jews. no. that was cantwell s final question in that part of the cross-examination. that was what happened in virginia today. we are backdrop for electoral politics, right? we are back dropped for a big election while they hide information on. what happened in charlottesville virginia, 2017, the far-right rally that resulted in one woman being killed. more than a dozen people being extremely injured. the parade of the nazi group, the torches, and the chants about jews, and replacement
as an expert witness on the stand. and because the defendants in this case are who they are, a number of the white supremacists and neo-nazi defendants at the charlottesville trial, they don t have lawyers. they re representing themselves in court. they re acting as their own lawyers. reporter arno rosenfeld captured what the dialogue was like today between one of the neo-nazi defendants who was on the stand while he was being questioned by another neo-nazi guy who was acting as his own lawyer. here is how he wrote it up. quote, defendant representing himself, christopher cantwell, asks fellow defendant matthew heimbach, what s your favorite holocaust joke. uh, my favorite, heimbach applies with a laugh? question is withdrawn. cantwell now asking detailed questions about adolf hitler s