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Once You Read These Kyle Rittenhouse Lies, It Sort of Explains the Left's Meltdown Over the Case
Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2021 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/20/2021 6:30:02 AM PST by Kaslin

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is over. He’s been found not guilty of all charges. He’s a free man. He’s a patriot. He’s a hero. And if you believe in the rule of law and the right to self-defense, this is a win. The national nightmare for this young man is over. He was the subject of political persecution, being charged for shooting two men and wounding another during the 2020 Kenosha riots. Two men, Joe Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were trying to kill him. he shot them in self-defense. The video evidence clearly shows that. Gaige Grosskreutz, who survived, admitted to being shot once he approached Rittenhouse armed with a handgun. What’s worse are the lies that have emanated from this incident. They are many and outrageous. Miranda Devine on The New York Post picked the top ten. Once you read them, you can figure out why the Left’s reaction was…interesting. And by that, I mean totally based on fake news (via NY Post):

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. All lies.

“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.

So, let’s go through 10 lies about Rittenhouse, debunked in court:

1. He killed two black BLM protesters. All three of the men he shot in self-defense during violent riots in Kenosha on Aug. 25 last year were white.

2. He crossed state lines. He lived 20 miles from Kenosha in Antioch, Ill., with his mother and sisters. But his father, grandmother, aunt, uncle, cousins and best friend live in Kenosha. He had a job as a lifeguard in Kenosha and worked a shift on Aug. 25 before helping clean graffiti left by rioters at a local school. 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. 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.

3. Rittenhouse took an AR-15 across state lines. Esquire accused him of “terrorist tourism.” False. His rifle was kept in a safe at his best friend’s stepfather’s house in Kenosha.

4. The gun was illegal. Wrong. Under Wisconsin law, he was entitled to possess the AR-15 as a 17-year-old. The judge dismissed the gun charge, which the prosecution never should have brought.

There are six more lies Devine points out, one of which involves the lies about Rittenhouse wearing medical gloves to cover his fingerprints. Uh, he was administering first aid—also his face is visible. The first is the biggest lie that seems to have eaten away at the Left’s mind like cancer. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, delivered a scathing statement about the verdict that was a straight lie. First, the Kenosha protests were sparked by the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, who is still alive. Maloney said he was killed. It also was neck-deep in the insinuation that this was a racially motivated shooting, or at the very least that the victims were black. Rosenbaum and Huber are white dudes. And this was not a BLM protest. It was a riot.

The media and their allies appear to be really upset about the black rioters that Kyle Rittenhouse never shot.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; illinois; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; lawandorder; mediabias; mediawingofthednc; msmdomesticenemies; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; riot; rittenhouse; rittenhouseacquittal; wisconsin
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To: HighSierra5

Imagine shooting into a cluster of BLM/Democrats, and hitting 3 people - all who were violent felons.

Now, imagine shooting into a cluster of Conservative/Republicans. Do you think if you hit 3 random people that they’d all be violent felons?

No one is talking about the fact that the dead and wounded are prototypical of Democrats.


41 posted on 11/20/2021 7:35:36 AM PST by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: nuconvert

Because the adults let them down


42 posted on 11/20/2021 7:36:04 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Jay W
They truly live in a fictional world full of hypotheticals.

I’ve always said they live in a glass half full looking for someone to blame but your description may be just as good.

43 posted on 11/20/2021 7:37:06 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Without treasonous Republicans, the Democrats have zero power.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Now that he’s acquitted can the thugs or their families sue Rittenhouse for damages in a civil case or is that finished?

Sadly, in my view, financial suits can and will be filed. Think OJ Simpson. And that suit was successful.

44 posted on 11/20/2021 7:39:23 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Kaslin
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.

I'd never heard this aspect of the story before.

45 posted on 11/20/2021 7:41:29 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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46 posted on 11/20/2021 7:43:04 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: nuconvert

“Why is a 17 year old asked to do this? Why are adults putting a juvenile in a dangerous situation?”

The adults were pussies about rioting, apparently a minor with good shooting skills wasn’t.

The leftwing looters and rioters now have something else to worry about.

The cops should of stopped the Kenosha riots on the 1st day with overwhelming force. If that was done, most of America wouldn’t know the name Kyle Rittenhouse.


47 posted on 11/20/2021 7:44:28 AM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: DoodleDawg

And in their interview with the detectives, the detectives tell them they know they are lying. They are Cowardly liars who jst tried to save their own butts. But t when you let in 3rd worlders, with no ingrained love of the American system, a little perjury is to be expect d.


48 posted on 11/20/2021 7:44:39 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: unclebankster

And be part of the lawsuits like Grosskreutz’s if Kyle was found guilty.


49 posted on 11/20/2021 7:46:17 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: unclebankster

Should’ve stopped the riots.

The cops might have not have been allowed to do their jobs when the riots broke out.


50 posted on 11/20/2021 7:46:53 AM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Kaslin

The only black guy involved attacked Kyle.


51 posted on 11/20/2021 7:48:28 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Kaslin

52 posted on 11/20/2021 8:08:11 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Why allow a government of thieves, liars, braggarts, traitors, cowards and perverts? )
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

I was under the impression that Black Rifle Coffee was the hero of Free Republic. I vaguely recalling seeing many, many laudatory comments about them[never read them] but it appeared that the posters thereof regarded them as “the cat’s meow.” And now you are throwing boulders at them.


53 posted on 11/20/2021 8:15:33 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
Not familiar with them. I do know the have adverts on Nascar.


54 posted on 11/20/2021 8:18:15 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Kaslin

He’s a free man. He’s a patriot. He’s a hero.

Truth justice and the American way no exceptions.


55 posted on 11/20/2021 8:23:45 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: nascarnation

Nor am I. But, in the past I have saw of laudatory posts about him on here [Free Republic] I have never knowingly drank any. And probably never will unless it is the store brand at the supermarket.


56 posted on 11/20/2021 8:29:27 AM PST by sport
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To: DoodleDawg

“During the trial, the owners of the car lot have denied they asked Rittenhouse, or anyone else, to guard their lot.”

That’s interesting. Thanks.
I wondered why his parents didn’t bring a lawsuit against the owner of the car lot. Kyle’s lawyer raised that possibility with the car lot owners. Their denial that they asked or agreed to let anyone guard it were questionable.


57 posted on 11/20/2021 8:30:18 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Kaslin
All Lives Matter, including your life and Kyle’s!

White kid, Kyle shoots White criminals trying to maim or kill him. Then, suddenly, he’s a racist in the eyes of the elitist dems and their mediots.

Kyle never shot or harmed a black person that night. He only shot white criminals trying to kill him!

If you are not black and believe only Black lives matter, then, your Brown, Asia, Mixed or White life means nothing!

58 posted on 11/20/2021 8:31:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Want to make America great again. Stop talking about government reform. Thanks: precisionshootist)
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To: marktwain

You completely miss the point. Even Kyle’s lawyer brought this up during the trial with the possibility of a lawsuit against the car lot owners.
See link in post #31


59 posted on 11/20/2021 8:34:09 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: DoodleDawg

Just because someone files a law suit, doesn’t mean it’s a sure thing. Pretty much anyone can file a civil suit. Personally, I don’t think those filing suit against Kyle will be awarded a dime - Especially since KR was acquitted. However, I think defamation/slander/libel suits against various media outlets are looking good for Kyle. It wasn’t a one time thing. The networks repeatedly and intentional defamed him.


60 posted on 11/20/2021 8:38:01 AM PST by HollyB
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