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.
I’ve heard so many people saying ‘White Supremacist’, but nobody gives any evidence of it. What are they basing this on - the simple fact that he is White and was present there?
I have no idea where they’re getting ‘Trump Supporter’, either. I’ve seen no evidence that the young man was political at all.
'Utterly Stupid Headline' award goes to...
Should be "MEDIA Lies about Kyle"
What do “unionists” have to do with my #27?
he sure did.
The minimum age for active-duty service in the US military is 17 with parental consent. 17-year-olds are not ordinarily put on the front lines of battle but they can otherwise serve in combat when we are at war.
No, it doesn't.
Personally, I don’t think those filing suit against Kyle will be awarded a dime - Especially since KR was acquitted.
We'll see. Evidence that could be kept out of a criminal trial can be introduced into a civil trial. Civil trial verdicts don't have to be unanimous. It's a different situation than a criminal trial.
However, I think defamation/slander/libel suits against various media outlets are looking good for Kyle.
Just because someone files a law suit, doesn’t mean it’s a sure thing.
The liberals simply hated that their rioting idiots got killed.
Read your #27 to find out.
The major media in this country are domestic enemies.
I’ve been saying that for a long time and I will not hedge that statement in any way.
After two nights of no response from the “adults”, there was still a need to protect the community. A better question than “Why was a 17 year old out there?” is why weren’t the adults out there enforcing the law against rioters and arsonists?
The fact that it was all done on purpose makes it so much worse in my opinion. It’s Pure Evil when you get right down to it.
I am actually finding myself becoming a fan of this young man the more he is persecuted. Initially my feelings were of sympathy and pity as he reminded me of my three sons of similar ages. After watching him throughout the trial I am more impressed with his character and actions than most adults that I’m seeing on television. God Bless Him and keep him safe.
It is hard to tell age sometimes. When I was 20 I met a girl at an 18 and over New Year’s Eve party at a nightclub. When I called her a few days later I found out she was 16. Click.
One of the worst examples floating around in their deranged internet world is a side-by-side graphic of Kyle and of Trayvon Martin, as if these two situations are at all comparable. Naturally, the graphic shows Trayvon as a child, not as the monstrous teen he developed into. It’s an inane comparison.
That’s what democrats do, too. Bring up irrelevant material; make irrelevant comparisons.
And a young guardsman slowed/stopped the student takeover of property at Kent State.
You made TWO assumptions here - both in the form of 'questions'.
You made TWO assumptions here - both in the form of 'questions'.
Many 17 and younger folks try to get into the military when they perceive a reason to do so.
I was 17 when I joined the Air Force.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=17+years+old+and+younger+in+the+military&ia=web
See!
They DO have at least a FEW functioning brain cells!
Would YOU like to 'protest' after a judge in Kenosha has just declared you to be part of the target-rich environment?
GANNETT took over the reins of the Indianapolis Star a few years ago and has run it into the ground with its leftist babble posing as 'news'.
Don’t they still have to try to sell cars in Kenosha?
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