Rittenhouse is a “white supremacist,” as then-candidate Joe Biden labeled him in a tweet showing the teenager’s photograph. “A 17-year-old kid just running around shooting and killing protesters,” said MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, “who drove across state lines with an AR-15 and started shooting people up.” On Friday, after evidence in court already had debunked his talking points, Scarborough called Rittenhouse a “self-appointed militia member … unloading 60 rounds.” When the defense called out the lie in closing arguments, Scarborough had the gall to tweet that he was “embarrassed” for the lawyer.ħ. He was an “active shooter” who took his gun to a riot looking for trouble. Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, PoolĦ. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger holds Kyle Rittenhouse’s gun as he gives the state’s closing argument during the trial. Kyle had already gone to his job in Kenosha when she woke up. 25 after working a 16-hour shift at a nursing home near her home in Antioch, she told the Chicago Tribune. Wendy Rittenhouse, 46, never went to Kenosha. Rittenhouse’s mother drove him across state lines to the riot. The judge dismissed the gun charge, which the prosecution never should have brought.ĥ. Under Wisconsin law, he was entitled to possess the AR-15 as a 17-year-old. His rifle was kept in a safe at his best friend’s stepfather’s house in Kenosha.Ĥ. Esquire accused him of “terrorist tourism.” False. Rittenhouse took an AR-15 across state lines. Adam Rogan/The Journal Times via AP) Footage shows Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself from angry rioters on Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the riots. Kyle Rittenhouse rightfully defended the Kenosha community while legally possessing an AR-15 rifle. Kyle took his gun to protect himself, since the rioters were violent and armed, including, for instance, Antifa medic Gaige Grosskreutz, who lunged at him with a loaded Glock pointed at his head before he was shot in the arm. There, he and his friend were invited to join other adults who had been asked by the owners of a used car lot in Kenosha to guard the property after 100 cars had been torched the previous night, when police abandoned the town to rioters. 25 before helping clean graffiti left by rioters at a local school. He had a job as a lifeguard in Kenosha and worked a shift on Aug. But his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousins and best friend live in Kenosha. He lived 20 miles from Kenosha in Antioch, Ill., with his mother and sisters. All three of the men he shot in self-defense during violent riots in Kenosha on Aug. So, let’s go through 10 lies about Rittenhouse, debunked in court:ġ. ![]() “A white, Trump-supporting, MAGA-loving Blue Lives Matter social media partisan, 17 years old, picks up a gun, drives from one state to another with the intent to shoot people,” was typical from John Heilemann, MSNBC’s national affairs analyst. The central media narrative is that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist whose mother drove him across state lines with an AR-15 to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters. They try to make the Rittenhouse case about race, but it’s about class, punching down at the white working-class son of a single mother because they don’t see him as fully human, and it makes them feel good. Of all the willful lies and omissions in the media’s coverage of the Steele dossier, Brian Sicknick, the Covington kids, Jussie Smollett, the Wuhan lab, Hunter Biden’s laptop and so on, nothing beats the evil propaganda peddled about Kyle Rittenhouse. ![]() New York has a new landing spot for secret migrant flights Hunter Biden defrauded me, Jim Biden called me during FBI interview, former biz partner says Lee Zeldin's fight is now clearer than everįears of only a weak wrist slap for scandal-scarred first son Hunter BidenĮx-Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski takes on the Biden machine After the shooting outside his home, Rep.
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