Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by jurors on all counts on Friday. The jury reached the verdict shortly after noon, and the foreman read it aloud in the Kenosha County Courthouse afterwards.
45th President Donald Trump reacted to the verdict in an email from his “Save America” PAC, saying, “Looks like President Trump was right!” and included a tweet from previous remarks he made over the case.
Trump added a tweet in his statement, posted by the user ‘Jewish Deplorable’, which showed comments Trump had made to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins last summer — regarding Kyle Rittenhouse.
Watch:
Trump was right about Kyle Rittenhouse from literally Day 1 pic.twitter.com/8KHxdpLR2a
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) November 19, 2021
The 45th President had told the CNN White House correspondent last August that Kyle Rittenhouse “was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like. And then he fell, and they very violently attacked him.”
“It’s something that we’re looking at right now, and it’s under investigation, but I guess he was in very big trouble, and he would have been — he probably would have been killed,” Trump said, adding, “But it’s under investigation.”
In an second email statement, the 45th President said on Friday, “Congratulations to Kyle Rittenhouse for being found INNOCENT of all charges. It’s called being found NOT GUILTY—And by the way, if that’s not self defense, nothing is!”
Rittenhouse claimed he acted in self-defense and pleaded not guilty in his trial for the August 2020 shootings of three men during riots in Kenosha last August.
He broke into big, heaving sobs and collapsed into his courtroom chair after being acquitted of all charges Friday.
After the jury forewoman read aloud the third “Not Guilty” verdict to the Kenosha, Wisconsin court, Rittenhouse began to visibly quiver. When the fifth and final verdict was read aloud, he sobbed loudly, sank in his chair and seemed weak-legged when a defense team member tried to help him resume standing.
This is an excerpt from The Freedom Times.
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