Thread by @kyledcheney

NEW: In February, Elliot Resnick scored an interview with Trump impeachment lawyer David Schoen. In March, he wrote an op-ed defending the Capitol riot.

What he didn’t mention either time: He was inside the building during the attack. politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

Resnick, chief editor of the New York-based Jewish Press, is best known for commentary denying the existence of white nationalism, denouncing LGBT people and calling African religions “primitive.”

Lately, he’s defended Trump claim the election was stolen

politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

Footage during the Capitol attack shows Resnick crossing the rotunda and approaching a Capitol Police officer as the officer is being accosted by a group of rioters.

politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

Resnick and his publisher have refused for weeks to say why he was there during the attack, despite numerous inquiries. They have not claimed he was there in a professional capacity — and none of his writing or posts about 1/6 have suggested he was in DC. politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

Resnick does not hold a Capitol press pass that might have authorized his entry. After declining comment for two weeks, publisher Naomi Mauer sent this statement Monday:

“As we understand the facts, we believe that Mr. Resnick acted within the law.”

politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

Resnick has not been charged, and the footage does not show him committing or encouraging violence. He’s declined multiple detailed inquiries by phone, email and social media messages over the past 2.5 weeks. politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

Here’s what Resnick wrote in the American Thinker on March 17: politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

UPDATE: In a statement, Resnick’s editors confirm he entered the Capitol on 1/6. They say he was there to report — but that they ultimately decided not to publish anything he gathered “because of the heated atmosphere surrounding the day’s events.”

jewishpress.com/indepth/editor…

More from the statement:

NOTE: This statement does not address Resnick’s 3/17 op-ed defending the Jan. 6 attack — using his title as Jewish Press editor — without disclosing he was in the Capitol. politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

AND ANOTHER: Despite the stated goal not to inflame the “heated” post-1/6 environment, the Jewish Press ran an incendiary syndicated column about it on Jan. 15 — it’s second issue after 1/6 — but opted not to use its own editor’s firsthand account. 🤔 politico.com/news/2021/04/0…

On March 5, the paper's editorial board criticized Merrick Garland for a "preoccupation with ‘white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol." jewishpress.com/in-print/e-edi…

And on Feb. 26, it ran this graphic.