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Kenosha shooter: Kyle Rittenhouse visited Donald Trump

2021-11-24T08:46:35.577Z


He is a "fan" and "nice young man". Donald Trump claims to have received Kyle Rittenhouse after his acquittal in Mar-a-Lago - and then attacked the US judiciary in an interview.


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The 18-year-old American Kyle Rittenhouse shot dead two men in the Black Lives Matter protests and was acquitted - the verdict sparked outrage in the United States.

Former US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News that Rittenhouse visited him shortly after the trial at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Trump called Rittenhouse a "fan" and a "nice young man."

“What he went through - that was prosecutorial misconduct.

He didn't have to go through a lawsuit for it.

He would have been dead.

If he hadn't pulled the trigger, the guy who held the gun to his head would have pulled the trigger in a quarter of a second - Kyle would have been dead, "Trump said in the interview with Sean Hannity, who showed a picture of Rittenhouse with the former president.

“You should never have expected him to do that.

That was prosecutorial misconduct, and that is happening now with Democrats across the United States, ”Trump said.

It is another of many statements Trump is making against the independent judiciary.

Rittenhouse drove to Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020 and joined armed men there who said they wanted to protect businesses from looting.

Protests against racism and police violence broke out in the city after a white police officer shot African American Jacob Blake several times in the back.

In an altercation during the protests, Rittenhouse shot dead two men and seriously injured a third.

Rittenhouse: "It was about the right to self-defense"

A jury ruled last week that Rittenhouse was innocent.

They followed his argument that he had defended himself.

He probably benefited from the fact that the witness he shot admitted that he first aimed a gun at Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse and the men he shot are white.

"I think you got the right verdict because in Wisconsin it wasn't Kyle Rittenhouse that was on trial, it was the right to self-defense," the shooter said after the acquittal.

If he had been convicted, "no one would have the privilege of defending his life against attackers."

Wisconsin law liberally interprets the right to self-defense.

If you are attacked, you can defend yourself with a weapon if you fear that you will be killed or seriously injured.

In an interview with Fox News after the acquittal, Rittenhouse said the case had nothing to do with racism.

"It was about the right to self-defense."

In the bar with the »Proud Boys«

Before the trial, Rittenhouse had been photographed in a bar with men who apparently belonged to the right-wing extremist »Proud Boys«.

However, his lawyers denied that the young man was a "white supremacist".

Rittenhouse himself said in an interview: "I'm not a racist person." He supports the Black Lives Matter movement and peaceful demonstrations.

After his arrest, Rittenhouse had become a figurehead of the right-wing camp: the bail of two million dollars was quickly collected through donations, and his supporters included the actor and former child star Ricky Schroder ("The Little Lord").

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Source: spiegel

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