Donald Trump Says Kyle Rittenhouse Visited Him After Trial: “He’s Really A Nice Young Man”
Former President Donald Trump stated Tuesday that Kyle Rittenhouse met up with him in Mar-a-Lago after the 18-year-old was found not guilty of shooting and killing two men, and injuring a third.
Trump also shared that Rittenhouse is a “fan,” of him and said the 18-year-old attended the visit in Florida along with his mother.
“Really a nice young man. What he went through — he should’ve, that was prosecutorial misconduct. He should not have had to suffer through a trial for that. He was going to be dead. If he didn’t pull that trigger, that guy that put the gun to his head, in one quarter of a second, he was going to pull the trigger — Kyle would’ve been dead,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News.
“Just left Mar-a-Lago a little while ago and he should never have been put through that. That was prosecutorial misconduct, and it’s happening all over the United States right now with the Democrats.”
A Wisconsin jury exonerated Rittenhouse last week. In August 2020, the teenager was armed with an AR-style semiautomatic rifle and insisted he was acting in self-defense and was in town to defend property and provide medical relief amid unrest in Kenosha. The protests were provoked by the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white police officer.
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The trial was a political lightning rod amid the 2020 presidential election race and months of riots against police brutality and racial injustice after the killing of George Floyd by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Rittenhouse repeatedly said during Monday’s interview that his trial was not about politics.
“No matter what your opinion is or where you stand, this wasn’t a political case, it shouldn’t have been a political case, it was made a political case,” he told Carlson. “It has nothing to do with race and the ways people are twisting this is sickening.”