Kyle Rittenhouse tells Tucker Carlson liberal reporters are worse than Antifa

Kyle Rittenhouse discussed the fallout of his fateful 2020 encounter with leftist guerillas in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson. The 20-year-old survivor of the BLM riots, a target both of leftist violence and of liberal propaganda, indicated the latter is the greater threat to the country.

What's the background?

On Aug. 25, 2020, Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, shot three radicals who mobbed him during a leftist riot in Kenosha. He successfully sent two of his attackers — a domestic abuser with multiple convictions and a convicted, violent child molester — to the morgue and disarmed a third who had advanced on him with a loaded weapon.

Although initially charged with homicide, attempted homicide, and reckless endangering, Rittenhouse was ultimately acquitted in November 2021.

Throughout and even after his trial, liberal reporters and talking heads trafficked in false claims about Rittenhouse. While he opened fire in self-defense and with great restraint, he was characterized as a murderer. While his deceased attackers were white, he was routinely accused of killing black men and being a racist.

For instance, after his acquittal, Whoopi Goldberg of ABC's "The View" claimed Rittenhouse had murdered two people. Failed congressional candidate Cenk Uygur similarly repeatedly called Rittenhouse a murderer. Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg used his platform to designate the shootings murders long before a jury had reached a decision. Harper's Bazaar pushed the claim that he was a "frontline mercenary for white supremacy" while the Associated Press played up the narrative that his case was tied up matters of race and inequality. MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid, devastated by Rittenhouse's successful defense and obsessing over his race, leaned especially hard into him, drawing parallels between Rittenhouse and "slave catchers."

Nicholas Sandmann, another young man defamed by the liberal media, noted in an op-ed for the Daily Mail, "Kyle was almost immediately labelled a 'white supremacist' and a 'domestic terrorist.' ... The attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me. They came quickly, without hesitation, because Kyle was an easy target that they could paint in the way they wanted to."

The greater of two evils

Carlson asked Rittenhouse who his greatest supporters and detractors were in the aftermath of the BLM riot in Kenosha.

"My biggest supporters have been Christians," said Rittenhouse. "Those have been my biggest supporters and mostly a lot of people who believe in the rule of law."

He later singled out Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as the lawmakers who steadfastly supported him throughout the ordeal, even prior to his acquittal.

Rittenhouse suggested his biggest detractors have alternatively been "people who don't really have a sense of what's going on. They'll be like reporters from left-leaning news companies."

Carlson pressed the issue, asking, "Who do you think, long-term, has been worse for the country: Antifa or liberal reporters?"

Without hesitation, fired back, "Liberal reporters. Liberal reporters essentially encouraged Antifa and enabled them."

Rittenhouse cited CNN as an example of a liberal outlet that has excused leftist violence and destruction. He specifically referenced CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez's infamous coverage of the BLM riot in Kenosha, wherein the network juxtaposed footage of an inferno unleashed on the city by rioters with a graphic that read, "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting."

"What is a mostly peaceful but fiery protest?" asked Rittenhouse. "That's not a peaceful protest. That's mass arson."

Carlson responded, "And that's obviously a lie. But then it's not an ordinary lie. It's a lie that abets evil; that allows evil things to happen, violence to happen. Kind of tells you a lot."

Rittenhouse intimated in the interview that whereas leftist guerillas' negative potential and antipathies are localized, liberal reporters' antagonism scales with their audiences.

"What they write goes into other people's heads," said Rittenhouse. "I would say most of America is independent, slightly left-leaning, slightly right-leaning. That's most of America. ... They believe in the Constitution and they just want to see a good country. But then you have left-leaning reporters who villainize me and say all these false things to where everyday people sometimes believe that."

Carlson later asked, "Since you're one of the very few people who's actually seen what this kind of violence looks like — you know, they tried to murder you — are you concerned that we're coming in for more of this?"

"I can definitely see in the future that more of this will play out, more of this will happen, especially if the politicians who are running this country are still in office and they continue to enable it, and they continue to encourage violence, encourage rioting. I could definitely see more riots and more violence in the future," said Rittenhouse.

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