Tucker Carlson's interview with innocent Kyle Rittenhouse begins with Rittenhouse speaking about how he wanted to help his community and he was concerned about the riots and destruction.
Speaking about the police response, Rittenhouse says the city of Kenosha didn't give them "the support they needed. The National Guard should have been called ... the city of Kenosha failed the community. The governor, Tony Evers, failed the community..."
Rittenhouse recounts his first run-in with convicted child rapist Rosenbaum, when Rosenbaum threatened to kill him. "What kind of sense did you get from Rosenbaum, I mean, that sounds deranged," Carlson asks.
The sleaziness of the prosecution gets revealed even more as Rittenhouse explains how they worked to keep the identity of "jump kick man" a secret from the defense and the jury.
Play-by-play of Rittenhouse recalling the mob of leftist extremists attacking him and him defending himself as he ran for the safety of the police line.
After saying he wanted to turn himself into the Kenosha police but couldn't because they weren't taking visitors, Carlson asks: "Why do you think people were burning Car Source, what does that have to do with civil rights?" Rittenhouse suspects they were "taking advantage" of BLM
Still experiencing dizziness from being struck in the back of the head, Rittenhouse turned himself in and the police arrested him with no charges drafted. Ane he's thankful for the amount of video taken that night showing proof he defended himself.
Coming back from a commercial, Rittenhouse praises the jailers for treating him well. He then revealed how his first lawyer, Lin Wood "held me in jail for 87 days, disrespecting my wishes," so he could raise money off of Rittenhouse and line his pockets.
Rittenhouse also called out his first legal team for planting the lie that he was a member of an "unorganized militia." "Which was just blatantly false. I didn't know what a militia was," he said.
"To be honest, tucker, this case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense," Rittenhouse said.
The teen had a message for President Biden, who called him a white supremacist: "Mr. President, if I would say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial, and understand the facts before you make a statement." He then accused Biden of defaming him.
Hinting at possible future defmation suits against politicians and the liberal media, Rittenhouse says: "I have really good lawyers who are taking care of that right now. So, I'm hoping one day there will be some -- there will be accountability for their actions that they did."
The specter of still loomed large in Rittenhouse's mind up until the not guilty verdict was handed down. "It wasn't Kyle Rittenhouse on trial in Wisconsin. It was the right to self-defense on trial," he added. Warning a conviction would have meant bye-bye to the self-defense.
Following a commercial break, Rittenhouse described the disgusting conditions he was kept in while in jail. They gave him a tablet but NO RUNNING WATER. "From October 30 to November 20, I did not take a shower ... my skin was bleeding because my skin was coming off of my body."
Speaking about his plans for the future, Rittenhouse says he wants to become a nurse or maybe a lawyer. BUT: "I feel my life has been extremely defamed by it. I don't think I would be able to go out and get a job and not have to deal with harassment..."
CARLSON: Do you feel like you've been watched over?
RITTENHOUSE: I believe God has been on my side from the beginning
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On CBS's Face the Nation, reporter Mark Strassman repeats the debunked LIE that "Rittenhouse drove in from Illinois armed for battle." He was not charged with that and it came out during the trial that the rifle was in Kenosha, where Rittenhouse has family and where he worked.
Moderator Margaret Brennan allowed the LIE to be repeated again when NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson falsely claimed Kyle "illegally purchased a gun, traveled across state lines to protect property that was not his for owners who did not invite him..."
Johnson went on to claim Rittenhouse took up "the mantle" of white supremacists with almost no pushback from Brennan. He also falsely claimed Rittenhouse went to a "peaceful" Black Lives Matter "protest" that was in response to "innocent" Jacob Blake getting shot by police.
Chris Cuomo starts his show by declaring: "There's plenty to be upset about. It is too easy to kill in this society. " He then suggests "there are no questions here tonight that this outcome is problematic." Adding; "...too many other kids get in trouble for way less."
After raising the question about why Grosskreutz had his gun, Cuomo asserts: "I'm not happy. There's nothing to be happy about here. Today's verdict of not guilty doesn't mean the actions on August 25th were innocent." And attacked Wisconsin's self-defense law as too weak.
He followed up my mocking Rittenhouse's emotional reaction to hearing the not guilty verdict. And after attacking self-defense again, he argued that Rittenhouse defending himself from 3 attackers was "legally justified but still wrong."
Bill Maher speaks with Chris "Fredo" Cuomo about how "wokeness" is killing the Democratic Party. "I keep saying this to the Democratic Party. The reason why you're so toxic is because you have become the party of no common sense."
@NickFondacaro Cuomo pushes back by flashing his hatred for Republicans. "Why would anybody embrace, if they want normal, a group of people/party who want to destroy all of the institutions that secure our normalcy?" Maher notes that people care about stuff close to home.
When they move on to CRT, Fredo suggests parents are too stupid to understand it: "CRT means nothing to anybody. They don't know what the acronym stands for. It's really not taught anywhere ... feel overwhelms facts all the time in elections."
Inflation airhead: NBC's Stephanie Ruhle says the "dirty little secret" of people complaining about paying higher prices for food and fuel for their homes is they can afford it just fine. According to her, people should have been saving during the pandemic and stocks look good.
According to Ruhle, people should stop complaining about paying more for food because the price of their homes has increased. So, should they sell their home or take out a loan on it to buy food?
One of her other arguments is that a majority of households have investments in the stock market. But much of that is intended for retirement. So, is Ruhle's advice for them to tap their 401Ks early to survive the winter?
After defining "woke," Newsweek editor Batya Ungar-Sargon calls out "highly affluent, highly educated liberal elites" in the press for an "absolute skyrocketing of the use of woke words" in an attempt to increase "their traffic" and create a "feedback loop" with the like-minded.
Stelter tries to defend woke mobs ginned up by leftist outlets, he suggests the "younger, liberal employees" were just trying to create "be a more perfect newsroom, a more perfect union." Ungar-Sargon points out that there is no debate but rather a "silencing of debate."
And although she gave CNN a pass, Ungar-Sargon called out MSNBC for wrongly stoking racial divisions following Yongkin's victory in Virginia. She pointed out how Virginias also elected Winsome Sears, Youngkin managed to flip majority-black districts, and got the Latino majority.
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