There aren&#8217;t a lot of guarantees in the criminal justice system. But for a long time now, there&#8217;s been at least one thing you can be pretty sure of — if you kill someone else in self-defense, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;re going to be charged with murder.
Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a cracker right before pounding his head into the pavement, and famously, the entire country — including the president of the United States — determined immediately that George Zimmerman was the bad guy. And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse very nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime of defending himself against several people who tried to kill him, including a pedophile who just got out of a mental hospital and an Antifa footsoldier who drew a handgun on him.
Everyone&#8217;s heard of these cases because in both instances, there was a clear racial angle to push. Even though he didn&#8217;t kill any black people, the Kyle Rittenhouse incident happened in the context of BLM mobs torching cities. That&#8217;s why he became an instant target. George Zimmerman, for his part, gave Barack Obama a chance to talk about how systemically racist America is. So his case was useful for a moment as well.
But there are many self-defense cases that don&#8217;t make the mainstream news, at least not nearly to the same extent. And all of them, to one degree or another, contradict the prevailing media narrative, so the corporate press ignores them. But they&#8217;re important to talk about, in part because they show how prosecutors and witnesses are willing to lie to imprison people who exercise one of their most fundamental rights, which is the right of self-defense. And how casually they will destroy people’s lives for the crime of trying to preserve their own lives.
So I&#8217;m going to go in-depth into one of these cases, which is still ongoing and hasn&#8217;t gotten nearly as much attention as it deserves. Plus, it&#8217;s the premiere day for &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/judged-by-matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JUDGED</a>,&#8221; so a deep-dive on a court case seemed fitting.
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Here&#8217;s the background.
In the summer of 2022, a man in his early 50&#8217;s named Nicolae Miu was out tubing with a group of people, including his wife, in the Apple River in Wisconsin. Apparently a member of his party dropped their phone somewhere in the river, and Nicolae Miu left his group and went looking for it. That&#8217;s when, around 3:40 p.m., Miu encountered a couple of additional tubing groups — one consisting of a bunch of teenagers, and the other including some adults.
Most of the involved parties are under the influence of alcohol and other drugs to varying degrees. They began exchanging some words. Here&#8217;s what happened next:
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It&#8217;s clear from this footage that, throughout the entire incident right up until their friend gets stabbed, the crowd of teenagers doesn’t seem to be afraid of anything, or fearful for their lives in any way. And that makes sense. Miu is much older than they are, and, though they wouldn’t have known this, he just had quadruple bypass surgery.
Meanwhile, these teenagers are mostly football players in prime physical condition. So they appear to be very much the aggressors as they jeer and taunt the older man and accuse him of &#8220;looking for a little girl.&#8221;
Then something happens off-camera. An adult woman, who came over from another tubing group, gets in the man&#8217;s face. He apparently makes some sort of contact with her, and the mob pounces. They push the man and begin hitting him repeatedly after he goes down in the water. Meanwhile the woman is fine — she&#8217;s not hurt in any way. Only after the man fatally stabs one of his attackers — a teenager named Isaac Schuman — does the mood change. Schuman bled out on the scene. The man also stabbed several others who were attacking him.
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Based on these facts, within 48 hours, the D.A. charged Nicolae Miu with first-degree murder. What&#8217;s followed, nearly two years later, is nothing short of a train wreck.
There are air-tight cases, close cases, and then there&#8217;s this. Pretty much every prosecution witness has demonstrated very clearly that they&#8217;re either lying or completely unsure of what happened two years ago. This is such a debacle that very real questions need to be asked about why this case was brought, and why these prosecutors still have jobs.
I&#8217;ll start with the incredible testimony of a witness named Larrion Davis, who recorded some of the footage of the incident. Under cross-examination (from one of Kyle Rittenhouse&#8217;s old lawyers, incidentally), Davis admits he lied to the police about why the group was upset with Miu. Watch:
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It&#8217;s hard to believe this is a real interaction between two humans. 
Lawyer: &#8220;You said you saw him taking pictures of the girls.&#8221; 
Witness: &#8220;Yes, I said that.&#8221; 
Lawyer: &#8220;Did you see it?&#8221; 
Witness: &#8220;No, I said it.&#8221;
To be clear, we&#8217;re talking about falsely accusing a man of pedophilia, two years after the fact. And the only excuse he can come up with for lying is, &#8220;There was a lot going on.&#8221;
Keep in mind, this is a prosecution witness. This should be the end of the case right here. This is the clearest possible evidence that the people Miu confronted decided, long after the fact, to come up with a story to justify their aggression towards him. They have no credibility whatsoever.
You&#8217;ll remember in the video, someone shouted that Miu was &#8220;looking for a girl.&#8221; But on cross-examination, another witness, Jawahn Cockfield, admitted that the claim wasn&#8217;t based on any evidence whatsoever. Watch:
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So they just called this man a &#8220;raper&#8221; who&#8217;s interested in little girls, as a way of scoping out the situation. That&#8217;s their way of gathering intel, apparently. And then, elsewhere in the testimony, Cockfield claims to be shocked that the man, in response, turned around and became upset.
None of this makes any sense. And as the trial went on, it continued to make no sense. For example, on cross-examination, it was revealed that the dead teenager&#8217;s best friend, Owen Peloquin, told police — on the day of the incident — that Miu was looking for a lost phone, not underage girls. 
Listen to the defense attorney read Peloquin&#8217;s prior statement, and then watch as Peloquin tries to weasel out of the admission:
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Now, two years later, Peloquin&#8217;s memory is suddenly better. And by that, he means his memory is worse. Now he doesn&#8217;t recall the guy ever saying anything about missing a phone. And he had no way of figuring out how to tell the police any of this, because he&#8217;s just 19-years-old. And 19-year-olds are apparently completely unable to use Google or cellphones or dial 911, evidently.
These are strange lapses in the prosecution&#8217;s case, to say the least. And it keeps going. Peloquin also testifies that he simply can&#8217;t remember the fact that one of his friends was shouting &#8220;For the culture&#8221; to egg on a fight. Watch:
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Admittedly, I had to look this one up, because I&#8217;m not a teenager. If you go on Urban Dictionary, you&#8217;ll find that &#8220;for the culture&#8221; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=For%20the%20Culture">means</a>,
<blockquote>When you do something you know you usually wouldn&#8217;t have done and are doing it purely for the hype factor of going against your usual judgment to instead try something new and different.</blockquote>
This is what one of the &#8220;witnesses&#8221; was shouting as the mob descended on this 52-year-old man.
This is the kind of fact that, if you&#8217;re trying to make Nicolae Miu out to be the aggressor, is kind of inconvenient. So Owen just pretends he doesn&#8217;t remember it happening. Problem solved, according to the prosecutors.
These kinds of inconsistencies are continuing to pile up as the trial goes along. But a few facts were definitively established. One is that, contrary to what some of these teenagers said, Miu never knocked a woman down at any point during this altercation. She was captured on the recording, standing upright and holding her phone.
Additionally, Miu never stabbed anyone until he was in the water, surrounded by a mob that was punching him in the face. So Nicolae Miu waited until his life was in danger before he used deadly force.
And once he began stabbing people, he didn&#8217;t indiscriminately start swinging. Instead, he only targeted the people who were targeting him — including Isaac Schuman, who put his hands on Miu&#8217;s neck. Watch:
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It&#8217;s not an exaggeration to say that the prosecution has not presented a single witness to bolster its claim that this was first-degree murder. Instead, every single witness rebutted their argument. 
Here for example is another witness, A.J. Martin, who concedes that ganging up on a man in his 50s and beating him may, in fact, not deescalate an already-tense situation:
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So far, we have the prosecution establishing the following facts: Most of its witnesses are liars. It was completely reasonable for this 50-year-old man to fear for his life. One of the teenagers had his hand on this man&#8217;s neck while the others pummeled him from behind. And that they all lied about him being a pedophile, two years after the fact.
This is not exactly the kind of case it takes Perry Mason to win. But somehow, once again, things got worse for the prosecution. Yet another witness claimed that the group was &#8220;afraid&#8221; of Nicolae Miu, but began to feel a little more secure as other adults began surrounding him as well. So he&#8217;s presenting this image of a deranged 50-year-old man who&#8217;s freaking him out. Then the defense attorney shows a photo of the witness looking extremely enthusiastic and not remotely afraid. Watch:
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That&#8217;s not the face of someone who&#8217;s afraid for his life, and who&#8217;s grateful that other adults have appeared to deal with a threat. Everyone looking at this footage knows that. This is yet another prosecution witness who is lying, overtly, on the stand.
I could go on for another hour dissecting every other aspect of this case, and how totally disastrous it&#8217;s been for the prosecution, but you get the point. 
In no sane country is this a first-degree murder case. And by the way, there is no &#8220;duty to retreat&#8221; in Wisconsin, but even if there were, there was no real chance for this man to get away once the mob descended on him. This is a completely unjustifiable prosecution no matter how you look at it.
It was brought for the same reason that most other self-defense claims are brought — to terrorize the rest of the population into submission. Remember how the Rittenhouse prosecutor said &#8220;everyone takes a beating now and then?&#8221; We&#8217;re pretty close to the prosecutors in this case saying the same thing. That&#8217;s more or less their argument at this point — that 52-year-old men should just accept their mob beatings, rather than defend themselves. But that is obviously outrageous. 
In a sane society, if you harass and assault someone, whatever happens next — whatever violence erupts as a result of your choices — is your fault. If you don’t want to get shot or stabbed, don’t go around trying to bully random strangers just for fun.
The reason this case isn&#8217;t on every mainstream channel is that the mob happened to be white, for the most part. But this is every bit as serious and coordinated an attack on the right to self-defense as the Rittenhouse and Zimmerman trials were. The judge should dismiss the charges. The prosecutors should be disbarred, and new prosecutors should consider looking into perjury charges for some of these witnesses. 
If none of that happens — and if somehow the jury convicts — then we can say with certainty that, just a couple years after the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the right of self-defense has been suspended in the state of Wisconsin. Everyone living there should either move, or prepare accordingly. And the rest of us should do everything we can to preserve our fundamental rights while we still have them.

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The Right To Self-Defense Is Once Again Under Attack

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George Zimmerman

Harassment

Kyle Rittenhouse

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Readers Pass

Stabbing

Stand Your Ground

Wisconsin

A man who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse during the 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots has filed a lawsuit against the 20-year-old and multiple police departments and officials.
Gaige Grosskreutz, who was shot in the arm by Rittenhouse after pointing a gun at the then-teenager, is seeking &#8220;damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims,&#8221; as well as economic losses and punitive damages, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/kyle-rittenhouse-hit-lawsuit-man-he-shot-2020-kenosha-clash-little-bit-shock">reported</a>. Grosskreutz filed the lawsuit on February 14.
&#8220;Astonishingly, the Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, their supervising officials and police officers, and law enforcement officers from surrounding communities did not treat Defendant Rittenhouse or any of the other armed individuals patrolling the streets as a threat to the safety of themselves or the citizens they were sworn to protect,&#8221; the lawsuit says.
&#8220;Instead, the law enforcement Defendants deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them, and ratified their actions by letting them patrol the streets, armed with deadly weapons, to mete out justice as they saw fit,&#8221; the lawsuit adds.
Grosskreutz admitted to pointing a gun at Rittenhouse when he testified at the latter’s trial in 2021. Rittenhouse, who was charged with murder after fatally shooting two men and injuring Grosskreutz, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty">found not guilty</a> in November 2021 following a contentious trial.
On August 25, 2020, when Rittenhouse was 17, he and others armed with rifles began patrolling downtown Kenosha in order to protect a used car dealership from the looting and vandalism taking place during the riots in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by a white police officer.
While guarding the car dealership, rioters began chasing Rittenhouse, and “[u]pon the sound of a gunshot behind him, Kyle turned and was immediately faced with an attacker lunging towards him and reaching for his rifle. He reacted instantaneously and justifiably with his weapon to protect himself, firing and striking the attacker,” a 2021 statement from his attorneys said.
“In fear for his life and concerned the crowd would either continue to shoot at him or even use his own weapon against him, Kyle had no choice but to fire multiple rounds towards his immediate attackers, striking two, including one armed attacker,” the law firm added.
A jury acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges.
Rittenhouse told Fox News that he would &#8220;prove my innocence again&#8221; during the lawsuit, but said he knew it would cost a lot of money to defend himself.

Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Continues In Kenosha, WI

Man Shot By Kyle Rittenhouse Is Suing Him Along With Wisconsin Police And Officials

Kenosha

Lawsuit

U.S.

The Twitter Files revealed that one of the most important content distribution platforms on the internet had been corrupted by severe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-release-shows-how-adam-schiff-staffers-harassed-the-company-with-absurd-ban-requests">ideological bias</a>. Leaked documents reveal Twitter staff suspending accounts and tinkering with distribution algorithms for purely political reasons. The Right always suspected Twitter wasn’t a fair forum; the Twitter Files proved it.
The Right has long held similar suspicions about YouTube, which has an estimated monthly user base of <a href="https://www.omnicoreagency.com/youtube-statistics/">2.6 billion</a> compared Twitter’s estimated <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-worldwide/">368 million</a> monthly users. Critics tend to focus on obvious acts of censorship: Banning videos or shutting down channels for no apparent reason other than they offend liberal sensibilities. Alternative video hosting sites like <a href="https://rumble.com/">Rumble</a> have emerged to provide Right-wing and heterodox voices a censorship-free platform, but the audiences for those sites remain a microscopic fraction of YouTube’s.
My company, <a href="https://www.goodkidproductions.com/">Good Kid Productions</a>, has just been victimized by what appears to be a more subtle means of YouTube censorship, a way for the site to shut down dissident voices under the guise of “community safety.”
Late last year, our channel released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAMjU14z4w">documentary</a> investigating two famous viral incidents centered on Kenosha, Wisconsin: The summer of 2020 shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by a white police officer, and, in the midst of the subsequent violent BLM riots, the killing of two people by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-when-i-knew-they-didnt-have-a-case-rittenhouse-details-critical-moments-of-trial">Kyle Rittenhouse</a>, a teenager who came to Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle to help protect private businesses.
For the first four weeks after its release, the video was untouched by YouTube management, allowing it to steadily rack up views. Then, suddenly, in late December, without warning, YouTube designated the video as “<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802167?hl=en">age-restricted</a>.” 
This is supposed to be a yellow-card punishment. Videos get slapped with this designation for violating “community guidelines,” vaguely defined rules supposedly intended to prevent violent, sexual, dangerous, or otherwise inappropriate content from polluting the platform. The “age-restricted” designation doesn’t fully nuke the video: It gets to stay up, but under restrictions that, in theory, simply prevent it from reaching an underage audience.
In practice, age restriction is a death knell: The video can’t be embedded on external websites; viewers have to sign in before they can watch it; and it receives scant – if any – boost from YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, which is a crucial source of views.
A documentary deconstructing the media’s coverage of a police shooting and the resulting mass riots is, admittedly, going to contain some mature themes. But all the “mature” visuals come from publicly available news pieces that are themselves available unrestricted on YouTube. The violence isn’t graphic. It’s the sort that might make PBS News. There’s no blood, guts, or sex, and there’s just a single use of profanity (by a BLM activist). And YouTube’s community guidelines explicitly carve out exceptions for news pieces, which is exactly what our documentary is.
The original age restriction notification did not specify what part or parts of the video were problematic, so we were left to guess how to fix it. YouTube has native editing tools that allow channel managers to modify videos after they’ve been published. We used them to blur out some gun violence and then formally submitted an appeal, which is supposed to be overseen by a flesh-and-blood human being.
On January 1, we received a reply from “Emman” at YouTube support informing us that “a human reviewer re-evaluated your content and determined that it does violate our Community Guidelines. We know this is probably disappointing news, but it&#8217;s our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all.” 
That’s it for the explanation. Emman didn’t provide specifics. He (she? it?) didn’t tell us what triggered the original designation or what doomed our appeal. Presumably, YouTube gets thousands of appeal requests every day. We’re not expecting a detailed report; we just want to know what specifically the human reviewer saw that made them rule to retain the restriction.
We responded by asking what specific parts of the video would need to be modified to drop the restriction. On January 12, Emman replied: “I understand that you would like to blur out your video, and have them [sic] be reviewed again. Unfortunately, if the video is already reviewed by our internal team the decision is final regardless if the video is edited or not.”
And that’s it. There is no next step. Views on the video have dropped to a trickle. It’s been shared by several large social media accounts, each with millions of followers, but the age restriction is a traffic choke point, substantially squeezing down the audience generated by those shares.
There’s no definitive proof this restriction is political, but it’s hard not to be suspicious. Our documentary deconstructs the lazy, leftist lies about race and police that saturate Silicon Valley. What would a Twitter Files-like revelation of the internal communications of YouTube reveal? How many of these restriction decisions are arbitrary? And how many are driven by an agenda?
Rob Montz, co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His latest online documentary is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAMjU14z4w">The Broken Boys of Kenosha.</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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YouTube Restricted Our Kyle Rittenhouse Documentary. We Still Don’t Know Why.

Big Tech

Jacob Blake

Silicon Valley

YouTube

The man who was caught on video firing a gun moments before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyle-rittenhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kyle Rittenhouse</a> shot and killed two assailants during the 2020 riot in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kenosha" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kenosha, WI.</a>, has been charged with armed robbery and other alleged crimes, according to a report.
Joshua Ziminski and his wife, Kelly Ziminski, both of whom took part in the August 25, 2020 riots that rocked the city, were charged Monday night with crimes including the armed robbery charge as well as armed burglary, false imprisonment, intimidation, and ID theft, the <a href="https://kenoshacountyeye.com/2022/09/13/kenosha-rioting-duo-including-man-who-shot-first-in-jail-holding-on-six-felonies-including-armed-robbery-burglary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kenosha County Eye reported</a>. Details of the crime spree were not immediately available, but The Daily Wire confirmed that both Ziminskis were booked Monday on multiple charges.
Ziminski was arrested following the riots on a gun charge as well as arson, for his alleged role in setting a trailer on fire during the riot. Video of the riot showed him firing a handgun in the air as Rittenhouse, who told reporters he was there to guard businesses from rioters, ran for his life. The then-17-year-old shot three people who chased and attacked him, including Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, who both died.
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Well, well, well. Joshua Ziminski, the &quot;man&quot; who fired the first shot in Kenosha after teaming up with Joseph Rosenbaum to ambush a 17-year-old carrying a fire extinguisher has been charged with multiple violent felonies. <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsKyleR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ThisIsKyleR</a> <a href="https://t.co/nMBs3Sv6tu">https://t.co/nMBs3Sv6tu</a>
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Rittenhouse was charged with counts of first-degree intentional and reckless homicide in the deaths, as well as for the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz. But a jury found he was defending himself during the riot, which was sparked by the police shooting of an armed black man named Jacob Blake. The teen was facing life in prison with no chance at parole, but was acquitted on all charges last November.
Rittenhouse, who lived with his mom across the state border in Illinois, worked as a lifeguard in Kenosha, where his father lived. He had agreed to help provide security for local merchants on the night of the riots, and was armed with an AR-15-style rifle that he had bought. He was also acquitted of weapons charges in the case.
After his acquittal, Rittenhouse became a symbol of self-defense to many on the right, while his critics claimed he got away with murder.
Ziminski was charged several months after the riot and was freed on bail earlier this year, the outlet reported. He was awaiting trial when he was arrested Monday.
Ziminski, who has an upside-down crucifix, three teardrops, and the word “SIN” tattooed on his head, was originally supposed to go on trial in January for the riot-related charges, but the trial was delayed after he was accused of intimidating a freelance photographer who was set to testify in the case.

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Man Who Fired First Shot As Rioters Chased Rittenhouse Arrested On New Charges

Crime

Riots

Kyle Rittenhouse on Thursday posted two viral tweets pushing back on calls for so-called common sense gun control measures in the wake of the tragic Uvalde, Texas, school shooting.
Rittenhouse fatally shot two rioters and injured a third while defending himself against attackers during a Black Lives Matter protest that devolved into a riot during the summer of 2020. The teen was facing life in prison with no chance at parole, but a jury found him not guilty.
&#8220;&#8216;The right of people to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed,&#8217; Joe,&#8221; Rittenhouse said via Twitter, seemingly making a reference to President Joe Biden and his speech concerning efforts to curb Americans&#8217; gun rights.
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“The right of people to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed,” Joe.
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&#8220;I am alive today because I was able to protect myself,&#8221; he added in a follow-up post.
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I am alive today because I was able to protect myself.
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Following last year&#8217;s verdict, Rittenhouse similarly asserted, “Self-defense is not illegal, and I believe they came to the correct verdict, and I’m glad that everything went well.”
Biden on Thursday called for &#8220;red flag&#8221; laws nationwide and a ban on &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can’t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21,&#8221; the president <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/politics/biden-speech-transcript-gun-control.html">said</a>. &#8220;Strengthen the background checks, enact safe storage laws and &#8216;red flag&#8217; laws. Repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers from liability. Address the mental health crisis deepening the trauma of gun violence, and as a consequence of that violence.&#8221;
&#8220;These are rational, common-sense measures,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;Here’s what it all means. It all means this: We should reinstate the assault weapons ban on high capacity magazines that we passed in 1994 with bipartisan support in Congress and the support of law enforcement.&#8221;
Following the Uvalde shooting, Daily Wire emeritus and bestselling author Ben Shapiro slammed cynical efforts from the Left to curb gun rights.
&#8220;&#8216;Common sense gun reform&#8217; is in reality what the Left wrongly believes &#8216;thoughts and prayers&#8217; is for the Right: an empty phrase denoting &#8216;I care&#8217; but without any actual problem-solving content,&#8221; Shapiro posted via social media.
&#8220;Not one of the &#8216;common sense gun reform&#8217; proposals the Left proposes would stop shootings like Uvalde. They know this. So instead, they make absurd claims suggesting that the mere fact of action of any type will magically reduce shootings (see, e.g., Sen. Murphy),&#8221; he added.
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Not one of the &quot;common sense gun reform&quot; proposals the Left proposes would stop shootings like Uvalde. They know this. So instead, they make absurd claims suggesting that the mere fact of action of any type will magically reduce shootings (see, e.g., Sen. Murphy).
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1529469896697970688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Viral With 2nd Amendment Posts As President Joe Biden Pushes Curbing Gun Rights

Kyle Rittenhouse Goes Viral With 2nd Amendment Post As Gun Control Talks Heat Up In Response To Uvalde Shooting 

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Former President Barack Obama is now warning the American people about the danger that &#8220;disinformation&#8221; poses to the nation&#8217;s democracy, but one has to wonder just when exactly he’s going to call out his own side of the political aisle for perpetuating myths and outright lies about conservatives and other issues over the past eight years. There certainly are numerous examples for Obama to choose from.
On Tuesday, Obama took time out of his post-presidency schedule to explain <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1516519230820212743?s=20&amp;t=-f-AGnPqWnH3Oq4_njEvdA">via Twitter</a> to the American people that, &#8220;In recent years, we&#8217;ve seen how quickly disinformation spreads, especially on social media.&#8221;
&#8220;This has created real challenges for our democracy,&#8221; he fretted.
In his infinite wisdom, and despite nobody asking, he told the American people, &#8220;Part of the reason it’s hard to bring about change is that we live in a media environment that elevates falsehoods as much as truths, and divides people as much as it brings them together.&#8221;
But, fear not fellow comrades, the Obama Presidential Foundation is &#8220;working to empower and equip emerging leaders to tackle issues like the spread of disinformation.&#8221;
Obama&#8217;s lectures became pretty passé quite some time ago, so it&#8217;s doubtful that anybody is even paying attention to his thoughts on the matter.
Regardless, for those who are keeping tabs on Obama, does anybody actually expect that the Obama Foundation will attempt to dispel pieces of &#8220;disinformation&#8221; like the belief amongst a number of progressives that Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with his hands up in the air? Even columnists at <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/">The Washington Post</a> understand that&#8217;s untrue, but it would appear that few others understand it never happened, as the phrase, &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Shoot,&#8221; has been featured in BLM rallies throughout America. This occurs <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hands-up-dont-shoot-slogan-used-in-george-floyd-protests-stems-from-myth-debunked-by-obama-doj">even five years after the fact</a> that Obama&#8217;s own Justice Department reported that Brown was threatening Wilson when he was shot to death.
Or maybe Barry O. will let his buddy President Joe Biden know that Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager accused of traveling across state lines to kill black people, is not a white supremacist. Biden <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kyle-rittenhouse-biden/">heavily implied Rittenhouse was one in multiple advertisements</a> while on the campaign trail in 2020, yet has not issued an apology for smearing an innocent American.
Will the 44th president address the myth that his <a href="https://www.cato.org/commentary/stop-saying-donald-trump-colluded-russia">successor colluded with the Russian government</a> to get elected in 2016? Maybe Obama will beat Special Counsel John Durham to the punch by revealing the truth behind the phony Steele Dossier, the Clinton campaign&#8217;s role in the entire affair, and divulging details of who else was involved in what appears to be a cover-up and scandal involving allegations that were, as Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said on Monday, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing">it was made up</a>.”
At the very least, Obama could apologize to former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page for the fact that FBI agents made “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ig-report-finds-fbi-fell-far-short-made-serious-errors-in-fisa-application-to-surveil-trump-campaign">serious errors</a>” that allowed the FISA court to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/justice-department-says-it-should-not-have-continued-spying-on-former-trump-adviser-idUSKBN1ZM34W">grant the DOJ permission</a> to spy on Page.
Speaking of presidential elections, will Obama spend any of his time focusing on the fact that social media censored one of the biggest stories of the 2020 presidential cycle — Hunter Biden&#8217;s infamous laptop? Of course, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/media-helped-hide-the-real-joe-biden-by-censoring-hunter-stories-devine/">legacy media assisted</a> in the effort to shield the public from the story that potentially implicates Hunter&#8217;s father in myriad scandals centered around Joe Biden&#8217;s time in office as vice president. Sure, press outlets now acknowledge that Hunter&#8217;s laptop is real, but in 2020, when they were bragging that 51 former intelligence officials said it bore the hallmarks of “Russian disinformation,” nobody seemed too keen on ensuring that they were reporting the truth.
The Obama Presidential Center has yet to actually be constructed. The logistics of it all have hit <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/03/30/federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-obama-presidential-center-protect-our-parks-vows">some snags on account</a> of Obama allegedly strong-arming the people of the south side of Chicago to build the complex, despite concerns that it will lead to gentrification and jack up property rates.
This means Obama will have plenty of time to travel the country for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barack-obama-narrates-new-netflix-nature-documentary-about-national-parks">more Netflix specials</a>, but maybe he&#8217;ll also reflect on the fact that practically the entire legacy media and his ideological allies spent time slandering Nicholas Sandmann in 2019 over a <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/01/20/so-called-adults-apoplectically-over-react-to-the-covington-high-school-kids-n2539329">totally bogus story</a> that the MAGA hat-wearing teenager was bullying a Native American elder at a pro-life march.
Sandmann, of course, fought back and appears to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit">received a hefty settlement</a> from various outlets in the process. It would be nice if Obama included that example as one way to fight disinformation and protect the truth, but we won’t hold our breath.
To his credit, Obama actually has <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/13/250694372/obamas-you-can-keep-it-promise-is-lie-of-the-year">apologized</a> for at least one piece of “disinformation” that earned him “Lie of the Year” from Politifact in 2013. After millions of people lost their health insurance plans despite being told, “if you like you health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” by Obama himself, the commander-in-chief told the American people, “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me.”
Despite that one moment of humility, a report from The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/technology/barack-obama-disinformation.html">would indicate</a> that none of the aforementioned pieces of “fake news” in this article were the catalyst for Obama having a change of heart about the role social media and false information plays in society. Based on the Times report, what got Obama to think differently was “Russia’s flood of propaganda on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to stir confusion and chaos in the 2016 presidential election.”
As The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nate-silver-dismantles-russian-disinformation-james-barrett">reported</a>, that “flood of information” went both ways, and considering that <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation/sd-how-much-money-russians-spent-twitter-facebook-ads-20170928-htmlstory.html">Russia spent roughly $300,000</a> on its efforts on Facebook, there is little to no evidence that it swayed the election one way or the other. For context, former Democratic candidate Mayor Mike Bloomberg <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/03/03/bloomberg-spent-60-million-on-facebook-ads-and-just-1600-on-american-samoa-the-only-primary-hes-won/?sh=37b5f44265dd">spent $60 million</a> on Facebook ads and was a monumental loser in the 2020 Democratic primary.
On Thursday, Obama will apparently be giving a speech on the way we &#8220;consume information&#8221; to <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1516809485997723652?s=20&amp;t=-f-AGnPqWnH3Oq4_njEvdA">share</a> what he has learned after “sitting down with academics, researchers, industry leaders, and former regulators, and listening to young leaders&#8221; on the topic.
 Instead of doing that, maybe he better sit down with his Democratic colleagues and members of the legacy media to reflect on their gigantic mistakes over the last 8 years or so listed in this article.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Obama’s Warning About Disinformation Again. Let’s Take A Look At Some Examples, Shall We?

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Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday night revealed that he intends on suing NBA star LeBron James.
&#8220;I think everyone wants to know &#8230; what are your plans for LeBron James?&#8221; journalist and host Drew Hernandez <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3Ff8K0x00&amp;feature=youtu.be">asked</a> Rittenhouse on the debut episode of &#8220;Frontlines.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;ll be getting a letter, too,&#8221; the teenager responded.
&#8220;LeBron James will be getting a letter, too,&#8221; Hernandez emphasized to his viewers.
Rittenhouse replied, &#8220;Anybody who defamed me, or lied about me, we&#8217;re just gonna send them a letter and then deal with them in a courtroom.&#8221;
During the same appearance, Rittenhouse said he doesn&#8217;t necessarily support the political organization of Black Lives Matter, but does support the idea that &#8220;black lives matter.&#8221;
&#8220;I support black lives mattering,&#8221; Rittenhouse told Hernandez. &#8220;I support black lives matter &#8212; they do matter.&#8221;
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BASED KYLE: <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsKyleR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ThisIsKyleR</a> denounces BLM and reveals he will be suing <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KingJames</a> 
Full: <a href="https://t.co/RjTsX1tSef">https://t.co/RjTsX1tSef</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TPUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/OCeQ8hLhEh">pic.twitter.com/OCeQ8hLhEh</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1496308548682268673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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James in November mocked Rittenhouse for crying while testifying about a fatal encounter he had on August 25, 2020, with  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-prosecutor-lists-numerous-alleged-crimes-of-man-kyle-rittenhouse-fatally-shot-downplays-as-irrelevant">Joseph Rosenbaum</a>. (The jury later found Rittenhouse had acted in self-defense during the encounter.)
“What tears????? I didn’t see one,” James mocked the teenager. “Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court.”
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What tears????? I didn’t see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court. 🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/LKwYssIUmD">https://t.co/LKwYssIUmD</a>
&mdash; LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1458619464329670657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rittenhouse was overcome with emotion while testifying about he incident and the court had to take a ten minute recess, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-breaks-down-into-sobs-while-testifying-on-stand-recess-called">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time:
<blockquote>Rittenhouse, detailing the moments before he fired on Rosenbaum recalled Rosenbaum yelling “burn in hell” to him before Rittenhouse yelled “friendly, friendly, friendly!” in an attempt to calm Rosenbaum. But he was chased.
Rittenhouse described feeling “trapped” by Rosenbaum and another man, identified during the trial as Joshua Ziminski, who fired his pistol in the air. The teen said the man had the pistol pointed at him during the incident.
Before describing his actions to fire, Rittenhouse sobbed uncontrollably and a ten minute recess was called.</blockquote>
James also made waves back in April for suggesting without evidence that an officer was racially motivated for fatally shooting 16-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/experts-makhia-bryant-shooting-legally-justified-officer-likely-saved-one-or-more-lives">Ma’Khia Bryant</a>, who was, at the time, attempting to stab another girl. Bryant and the other girl involved are both black; the officer is white.
In a now-deleted tweet, the L.A. Laker posted an image of the officer with the ominous caption, “YOU’RE NEXT. #ACCOUNTABILITY.”
After that was deleted, in another tweet, James wrote, “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its [sic] being used to create more hate – This isn’t about one officer. [sic] it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY.”
Further, in May, James said black people in America are “literally hunted everyday/everytime” in reaction to the fatal shooting of 25-year-old black man Ahmaud Arbery.
“We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!” James tweeted.
“Can’t even go for a damn jog man!” the NBA star continued. “Like [what the f***] man are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! I’m sorry Ahmaud (Rest In Paradise) and my prayers and blessings sent to the […] heavens above to your family!!”
James added the hashtags “<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayWoke?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#StayWoke</a>” and “<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProfiledCauseWeAreSimplyBlack?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#ProfiledCauseWeAreSimplyBlack</a>.”
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We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! Can’t even go for a damn jog man! Like WTF man are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! I’m sorry Ahmaud(Rest In Paradise) and my prayers and blessings sent to the&#8230;.. <a href="https://t.co/r1PNxs8Vgn">pic.twitter.com/r1PNxs8Vgn</a>
&mdash; LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1258156220969398272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rittenhouse in December joined The Blaze TV’s “You Are Here&#8221; and discussed James&#8217; mocking tweet.
“I was a Lakers fan, too, before he said that,&#8221; Rittenhouse <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-says-f-you-lebron">said</a>. “I was really pissed off when he said that because I liked LeBron &#8230; and then I’m like, you know what, f*** you, LeBron.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rittenhouse-spox-makes-offer-hits-back-at-lebron-james-for-mocking-teen-for-crying">Rittenhouse Spox Makes Offer, Hits Back At LeBron James For Mocking Teen For Crying</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-mocks-rittenhouses-tears-that-boy-ate-some-lemon-heads-before-walking-into-court">LeBron Mocks Rittenhouse’s Tears: ‘That Boy Ate Some Lemon Heads Before Walking Into Court’</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-james-blasted-after-mocking-kyle-rittenhouse-you-cried-because-you-got-a-cramp">LeBron James Blasted After Mocking Kyle Rittenhouse: ‘You Cried Because You Got A Cramp’</a>
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WATCH: Kyle Rittenhouse Reveals He Intends To Sue LeBron James

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Kyle Rittenhouse joined &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; on Monday to announce his new initiative &#8220;The Media Accountability Project&#8221; — a group that will be used to hold &#8220;members of the media accountable&#8221; for lies and defamation similar to what Rittenhouse endured before, during, and after his homicide trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2021. Rittenhouse was ultimately found not guilty on all charges after he was accused of murdering two men during a riot in 2020.
&#8220;So for over a year, media outlets in this country lied about Kyle Rittenhouse in an effort to have put behind bars for the rest of his life. They called him a white supremacist, which he is not. They told us he crossed state lines with an AR-15, which he did not, and therefore he was a terrorist,&#8221; Carlson explained before showing a montage of MSNBC guests like Reverend Al Sharpton and others accusing Rittenhouse of embodying white supremacy.
&#8220;White supremacy – no one he shot was not white, everyone involved in the story was white, of course, but it&#8217;s white supremacy,&#8221; Carlson said sarcastically. &#8220;They&#8217;re lying to put the kid in prison for the rest of his life. What they just told you there are lies. Rittenhouse&#8217;s mother didn&#8217;t drive him across state lines with an AR-15; he borrowed the gun from a friend in Wisconsin. He lived about 15 minutes from Wisconsin. He worked in Wisconsin. So, the question is, after a full year of watching these people lie in order to imprison a kid for the rest of his, who&#8217;s going to hold the liars accountable?&#8221; Carlson pondered before introducing Rittenhouse.
&#8220;Kyle, thank you so much for coming on tonight. I can&#8217;t think of many people who&#8217;ve been at the receiving end of this much sinister lying from so-called news organizations as you have. How are you going to respond?&#8221; Carlson asked.
&#8220;Well Tucker thank you for having me,&#8221; Rittenhouse said. &#8220;Me and my team have decided to launch the &#8216;Media Accountability Project&#8217; as a tool to help fundraise and hold the media accountable for the lies they said and deal with them in court.&#8221;
&#8220;Interesting, so the idea is — maybe like the Covington Catholic kids — you will be suing news organizations that maliciously lie about people who are in the news?&#8221; Carlson inquired.
&#8220;Yes, sir. We&#8217;re going to be holding them accountable, Tucker,&#8221; Rittenhouse affirmed.
&#8220;I guess I have to ask kind of a dumb question, why isn&#8217;t there a group like this that exists already since the media so often not observers, they&#8217;re players, they&#8217;re participants in the news? Why hasn&#8217;t somebody done this before?&#8221; the host asked.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a good question, Tucker, and I&#8217;m not sure, to be honest,&#8221; Rittenhouse answered. &#8220;But I don&#8217;t want to see anybody else have to deal with what I went through, so I want to hold them accountable for what they did to me, so I don&#8217;t want to see anybody else have to go through what I went through.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Defamation LAWSUITS Against Corporate Media And Whoopi Goldberg (!!!) <a href="https://t.co/xqRxJy9ojd">pic.twitter.com/xqRxJy9ojd</a>
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Kyle Rittenhouse Announces New Project ‘To Hold The Media Accountable’

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Kyle Rittenhouse sat down with Daily Wire host Candace Owens this week for an exclusive interview &#8212; and all things were on the table, including the teen&#8217;s life before, during, and after trial, and what Rittenhouse has coming in the future, particularly for those who famously smeared him as a “murderer,” “vigilante,” and “white supremacist.&#8221;
Rittenhouse told Owens he was just a &#8220;normal kid&#8221; who wanted to &#8220;help people&#8221; before his life was turned upside down in the summer of 2020.
&#8220;I was a lifeguard, I was a swim instructor, and I was a firefighter EMT cadet, and a police explorer, so I just wanted to help people before all this. And I still wanna help people,&#8221; he told Owens.
Rittenhouse fatally shot two male attackers in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at a protest that had evolved into a riot on August 25, 2020. In November, he was found not guilty on all charges related to the incident.
Democrats and their allies in the media worked to smear the then-17-year-old as a racist out for blood, before, and even after the acquittal.
&#8220;It&#8217;s been hard&#8221; since the night of the attacks,&#8221; Rittenhouse told Owens, &#8220;definitely been waking up at night with cold sweats.&#8221; But at the time, he said, he &#8220;didn&#8217;t realize how big the case actually was until a few months later.&#8221;
Then the media attacks became unavoidable, Rittenhouse disclosed. I was called &#8220;a white supremacist, a vigilante, and those just aren&#8217;t true.&#8221;
Notably, now-President Joe Biden ran a presidential campaign ad that falsely implies Rittenhouse is a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rittenhouse-spokesman-slams-biden-for-ad-implying-teen-a-white-supremacist">white supremacist</a>.”
The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kyle-rittenhouses-attorney-demands-biden-remove-ad-claiming-client-is-a-white-supremacist-threatens-defamation-lawsuit">Ashe Schow</a> reported on the Biden ad in question in September 2020:
<blockquote>… Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a digital ad on his official Twitter account that included President Donald Trump’s debate remarks about white supremacists. As the debate transcript plays, images from Charlottesville, Virginia, are shown. Thirty-seven seconds into the ad, as debate moderator Chris Wallace is discussing white supremacy and mentions Kenosha, Wisconsin, an image of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse is displayed.
Biden’s tweet explains, “There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.”</blockquote>
Owens noted that all involved in the incident were white, emphasizing the bizarre framing of Rittenhouse as a &#8220;white supremacist.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be some accountability, Candace,&#8221; Rittenhouse assured the &#8220;Candace&#8221; host.
In the past, he has hinted at forthcoming legal action against those who&#8217;ve smeared him as a racist vigilante.
&#8220;I would never have voted for Joe Biden,&#8221; Rittenhouse continued, referring to Biden&#8217;s attack. &#8220;I would have voted for Trump [if I was of voting age]; Trump was right, he supported me from the beginning and he helped tell the truth of what happened.&#8221;
For now, Rittenhouse is enrolled in college and plans to ultimately pursue a degree in law. He also said he&#8217;s taking classes to become a pilot and spending lots of time snowboarding.
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I joined <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealCandaceO</a> today on her show, tune into <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> tomorrow to watch! <a href="https://t.co/Qjuh39n3DC">pic.twitter.com/Qjuh39n3DC</a>
&mdash; Kyle Rittenhouse (@ThisIsKyleR) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsKyleR/status/1485766747793895424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A UCLA professor who is a self-described “Egyptologist” included a passage in a book she authored claiming Kyle Rittenhouse shot two black men, and when she was harshly criticized for her mistake, apologized but insisted that “America has a race problem,” a “deep-seeded obsession with patriarchal power,” and is plagued by “white supremacy” and “misogyny.”
Professor Kara Cooney tweeted:
<blockquote>On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.</blockquote>
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On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.
&mdash; Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) <a href="https://twitter.com/KaraCooney/status/1478780278726221824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“If one mistake in a little known book about ancient Egypt elicits this much howling, it is to avoid discussing our larger problem, to avoid seeing our deep-seeded obsession with patriarchal power,” she continued. “So yeah, tiny detail of the book with a big mistake about a massive American issue. And that’s on me. But the white supremacy is still a problem. And the misogyny is still a problem.”
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So yeah, tiny detail of the book with a big mistake about a massive American issue. And that’s on me. But the white supremacy is still a problem. And the misogyny is still a problem.
&mdash; Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) <a href="https://twitter.com/KaraCooney/status/1478780280970248194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cooney was <a href="https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/01/05/professor-subjected-to-a-hateful-stew-of-ridicule-for-writing-in-her-book-that-kyle-rittenhouse-shot-two-black-men/">heavily criticized</a> on social media, with comments such as:
<blockquote>I completely made up facts to support my fragile and fictitious worldview BUT YOUR REACTION TO THAT LIE IS THE REAL PROBLEM HERE!!!!
Someone who writes a book, doesn’t watch the trial, doesn’t do an investigation then claims “whoops, just a mistake” hopefully will hear from Kyle’s lawyer soon!
I was held to a higher standard than this for papers I wrote in high school. You aren&#8217;t a victim here.
If you and your publishers put out a book &#8220;mistaking&#8221; an easily verifiable detail of a major case from this past year how can you or your publishers be trusted to put out information about ancient history
How much can you really claim to care about this issue when you got such an obvious detail wrong? Did you not watch the case at all? The footage? How can you reconcile your alleged understanding of this problem with your ignorance about such a simple fact?</blockquote>
In December, Rittenhouse told Glenn Beck he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/rittenhouse-wants-conversation-with-biden-over-white-supremacist-suggestion/">wanted</a> to have a “conversation” with President Joe Biden for suggesting that Rittenhouse was a “white supremacist.” He stated, “I would like to sit down with the president and have a conversation with him and tell him the facts of what happened.”
Rittenhouse was referring to a <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1311268302950260737">tweet</a> Biden released during his 2020 presidential campaign that contained a video showing Rittenhouse carrying his AR-15 in Kenosha. Biden tweeted of former President Trump, “There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.”
Rittenhouse later told Tucker Carlson of Fox News, “Mr. President, if I could 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.” After Carlson interjected, “That’s not a small thing to be called that,” Rittenhouse continued, “No, it’s, it’s actual malice, defaming my character for him to say something like that. It’s actually quite hysterical how nobody can go back and look at the facts of the case. ‘He crossed state lines,’ false. ‘He’s a white supremacist,’ false. None of that is true. And the lies that they can just get away with spreading is just sickening. And it’s a disgrace to this country.”
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Tina Knowles-Lawson, mother to superstar Beyoncé Knowles, said this week that actor Jussie Smollett should be treated with &#8220;compassion&#8221; during sentencing, claiming that teenager Kyle Rittenhouse &#8220;walked free after killing two people&#8221; because the jury &#8220;showed compassion.&#8221;
Smollett was convicted last week on five counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police about a hate crime hoax in 2019. Despite conviction, the actor maintains he is the victim of a racist, anti-gay hate crime and has not apologized.
Rittenhouse was found to have acted in self-defense when he was attacked in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year at a Black Lives Matter protest-turned-riot.
&#8220;We will see the outcome of this for this Black man,&#8221; Knowles-Lawson posted to Instagram, citing an article from CNN.
&#8220;I am not condoning what Mr. Smollet was found guilty of, I am just asking will he get the same compassion and understanding of knowingly lying to police,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Kyle Rittenhouse walked free after killing two people because the jury had compassion?&#8221;
During the same post, the 67-year-old brought up the case of Amy Cooper, who called the police after she said she felt threatened by a man in Central Park, who happens to be black. After the media framed the encounter as a racist, the woman, who is white, eventually had charges against her <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/nyregion/amy-cooper-charges-dismissed.html">dismissed</a>.
Below is the full caption from Knowles-Lawson:
<blockquote>The article goes on to say both were wrong but Jussie faces possible prison time and Amy Cooper The woman who called the police and lied about the black man that was Bird watching in Central Park was trying to attack her. Leading to the potential arrest of the man where in the history of black men In Custody could have led to his death !! Amy Cooper got off with public service . We will see the outcome of this for this Black man . Will he get the same compassion as Amy Cooper? I am not condoning what Mr Smollet was found guilty of . I am just asking will he get the same compassion and understanding of knowingly lying to police . Kyle Rittenhouse walked free after killing two people because the jury had compassion ?</blockquote>
Smollet, back in January 2019, claimed he was targeted and attacked by apparent supporters of then-President Donald Trump in an anti-gay, anti-black hate crime. His alleged attackers, whom he allegedly described as white males who yelled “This is MAGA country,” were brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo. Notably, the brothers are both black men who knew the “Empire” star before the incident and have claimed Smollett orchestrated the “hoax.” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-all-top-democrats-tweets-about-jussie-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a> detailed Smollett’s claim at the time:
<blockquote>Smollett contends he was targeted by two Trump supporters, who verbally and physically accosted him as he was walking home from a Subway sandwich shop in downtown Chicago on January 29. The actor says the men called him a “f*****” and a “n*****,” tied a noose around his neck, poured bleach on him, and kicked him in the ribs.</blockquote>
A jury on Thursday found Smollett guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct related to the incident. He has not yet been sentenced, but is facing up to three years in prison on each count, NBC Chicago <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jussie-smollett-verdict-what-he-was-found-guilty-of-and-whats-next-in-the-legal-saga/2704278/">reported</a>.
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