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Feb. 25, 2022 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Media Accountability is Coming — My Interview with Kyle Rittenhouse
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Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
Look who decided to come to stop by our studio.
It's Kyle Rittenhouse.
How's it going, Charlie?
Good man.
I was just hanging out and then I saw you and I was like, got to go on the podcast, Charlie.
Got to go on the podcast.
Kyle, you have so many fans that listen to us and rightfully earned.
And you have a big announcement that you just recently made.
Tell us about it.
Yeah, we decided to, me and my team, we launched the media accountability project to hold the media accountable.
And we're going to continue to hold them accountable with it.
Well, I love it.
Have you announced any lawsuits yet?
We are working on filing some.
We're looking at Whoopi Goldberg first, a couple others, Tiffany Cross.
You called me a little white supremac murderer after I was acquitted.
After you were acquitted.
After I was acquitted.
So let's kind of talk about this.
I mean, there's kind of two trials you went through, right?
You went through the trial in the courtroom and then the trial of public opinion that is guided by these smear artists that are in our media, right?
So, in some way, you got acquitted in the courtroom, but then you had to enter into a world that thought things that were completely untrue about you that have real damages to you.
Because of the mainstream media that wants to push their own agenda, that wants to lie and spread their own narrative.
Every day I see an article of just complete nonsense, and we're going to hold these people accountable.
I don't want to see anybody else have to experience what I experience.
And that's what it's all about, right?
I mean, whether it be the Covington kids or anyone else that's been lied.
I mean, I get lied about all the time, but they say it's protected under the First Amendment.
Like, yeah, okay.
But this was intentional slander and libel against you.
So, talk about what this is going to look like.
Is there a website people can go to?
You know, talk us, talk to us about that.
You can go to tmap.org to join us in this battle to holding these people accountable.
Yeah, and to get and actually get into the fight, right?
To get into the fight and join, not join to help us to help us fight this battle.
And so, I just have to ask you kind of on a personal note: how have you been holding up in the last couple of months?
You know, Charlie, I've been all right, but to be honest, it's been hard with all these lies that the media spread.
It's hard to live a normal life.
Like, I try my best.
I'm learning to be a pilot right now.
Congratulations.
Thanks, Charlie.
But I have to go out and defend myself because of what they did, the lies they said.
Even after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers, they doubled down and they jumped on the bandwagon and they need to be held accountable.
Yeah, and accountability is a really rare thing, right?
So, you know, justice is giving to each man his due.
And thankfully, the justice system treated you correctly, which is very heartwarming, honestly, that it wasn't politicized and you had a judge that just did the right thing.
And despite Binger and all those weirdos that were in the prosecution, I believe your trial of 2021 was a turning point, get it, and also kind of a high point for justice because we see so much injustice in our world in a variety of different ways.
But now you're saying, listen, I want to live my life.
I want to be a pilot, but you probably have this, you know, difficulty and where at every corner you turn, there's someone that is trying to either smear you or push back against you.
Or you don't know if you walk into a room, if people already have a perception of you that's completely false.
Is that right?
That is, that is true, Charlie.
I don't know, like, say I go to like a meeting or something.
I don't know what, like, say I want to get a job in 15 years at like a law firm when I become a lawyer.
I don't know if I'm going to have an interview and they're just going to be like, oh, we saw an article from CNN or whatever.
Yeah.
So that's something we got to hold them accountable for so I can have those opportunities.
So I can have that opportunity to get jobs in the future.
That's why we're starting this because we don't want to see anybody else go through that.
And so many young people are smeared and destroyed by the media.
And the media should be having, I think they should learn their lesson, but they haven't, right?
So can you walk through some of these instances?
You had people after your post-trial acquittal still like lie about you.
Why do you think they keep doing that?
They want to double down.
They want to push their own narrative, their own agenda.
They just want to, they just want to, they just want to lie.
They want to destroy my life.
And if they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody else.
And it's not right and it needs to be stopped, Charlie.
Yeah.
And I think they keep on doing it as well because they don't think there's a cost to it.
And so what you're trying to insert into the conversation is in the back of every one of these really evil reporters.
Not all of them are evil, but some of them are a cost that they might think more carefully, right?
That now, let's the law is in the favor of the smearer, not the person who's been smeared.
But you feel as if you potentially have some claims that could be substantive against these people.
Oh, absolutely.
Tell us a little about that.
In generalities.
Well, like Whoopi Goldberg, after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers, 12 people of my peers.
Whoopi would never say anything that isn't fact-based.
Oh, my bad.
Sorry.
Sorry, Charlie.
But she called me a murderer on live television on ABC on The View.
She called me a murderer after I was lawfully found to acted in self-defense.
Yes.
And no apology.
Nothing.
No attraction.
No, nothing from ABC.
Total crickets.
And so this is societal.
I hope everyone listening understands that.
That a lie, if it does not get confronted, will grow and will infect your entire society.
Now, in America, we have some of the loosest libel and slander laws on the planet.
Now, some of that's a good thing because we like speech, right?
We like creativity.
We love free speech, right?
We like to be able to speak our mind and we don't want people to always kind of be in this box of like, oh, I might not be able to, you know, be free.
However, there's no freedom in what you're living through.
No, it's slander.
Like, I have the same rights as everybody else.
I believe in the Constitution.
I love the Constitution.
But there's a limit when you start calling people a white supremacist and a murderer.
Those are just lies.
And I don't, that shouldn't happen to anybody.
Nobody should have to experience that.
With no evidence.
Nothing.
Contrary evidence, actually, right?
So you come out and you say very clearly in your Tucker interview, I like some of the things the Black Lives Matter group is standing for.
Like all these things that would a normal person be like, oh, okay, he's not a white supremacist.
I might not, you know, agree with everything he did that night, but he didn't do anything illegal and he isn't like the worst person on the planet.
But they keep on doubling and tripling down.
And these people need to pay a price.
You know, use that word accountability.
I love it.
That's a nicer term.
They need to, they need to understand that the next Kyle Rittenhouse, the next Nicholas Sandman, right?
The next Duke La Crosse team, which I don't know if you remember that story or not.
Might have been before your time, which was a completely made-up story of this woman who claimed that these Duke La Crosse people raped her, and it was just totally untrue.
That the media and these reporters, they need to be much more careful with what they say because it's not just them talking in an empty room.
They're talking to millions of people.
Exactly.
Like I'm trying to think of this one article, Tiffany Cross.
I just mentioned that.
Who is that again?
I think her name is Tiffany Cross.
I forget the organization.
But she called me a white supremacist little murderer after I was acquitted.
And I'm like, that's not true.
Sank from the Young Turks completely lied about me.
Chank, yeah.
Do you know my history with him?
Oh, you got it.
It's very colorful.
Just look up Charlie Kirk Chink.
But we got to give Anna Kasparian credit.
When I was acquitted and during the trial, she actually apologized.
So I'll give you a trip.
She might have been covering for the whole network, though.
That might have been a little bit of a legal.
I'm kidding.
Yeah.
Sank, I encourage you to follow your co-workers, Anna's footsteps, because accountability is coming for you, Sank.
You know what I love?
How no one knows how to pronounce his name?
Chank.
Kenk.
I can never pronounce it.
It's the weirdest thing.
And it's kind of really creepy that they're called the Young Turks.
I don't know if you know anything about that.
Like they committed like genocide and then they call themselves that.
A Colorful History 00:07:03
Different issue for a different time.
But not good.
You know, you know, I was watching a video the other day.
I was doing some research on the Young Turks.
They called me this racist white supremac, but some of the videos they post.
I encourage anybody to do that.
You could guest post my show any day, Kyle.
I will buy you your single-engine plane.
I'm not kidding.
They are so nasty towards me.
But, you know, with me, they always kind of do it in the realm of like, here's what we think, and like all this.
With you, like, they went right after it.
Oh, yeah.
Well, there's going to be a letter going to them real soon.
Oh, I love that.
And so.
Are you going to take on other cases for other people?
This is a nonprofit, right?
So people can support it at tmap.org.
Is that right?
They can go to tmap.org to donate and join our fight for justice.
Sorry to jump back a little bit.
No, it's okay.
But the acquittal was justice part A. Us winning these lawsuits is justice part B, holding the media accountable.
That's justice part B.
Yes.
And justice is giving every man his due.
And you did nothing wrong.
In fact, you did everything right that night.
You did everything right after that, despite being treated horribly, you know, going into prison unnecessarily, you know, in pre-trial detention, all this stuff.
And then being lied about and slandered.
And, you know, you look at real material costs.
You look at, you know, sponsors and advertisers that pulled advertising from shows based on lies about you.
This whole thing, right?
And no one actually wanted to go a level deeper to find out what the truth actually was.
And that's really what you want, right?
Is the truth.
That's all anybody wants is the truth to be told.
Yeah, I don't know if the media wants that.
I think they just want power.
Exactly.
And they want control over everybody.
Yes, that's exactly right.
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What have you learned since the acquittal?
Are you happier?
I'm glad I got acquitted.
Huge stress reliever.
Yeah.
I'm going to frame that.
Glad I got acquitted.
Huge stress reliever, Kyle Rittenhouse.
Huge.
You got that off your plate.
Got that off my plate.
Life in prison, not fun.
You know, I've got to be careful.
Like, God forbid I went to prison and accidentally dropped the soap.
Oh, geez.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, I don't know.
So that's off.
That's off your.
It's off my chest.
God was with me.
Yes, amen.
One thing I did learn from this is my connection with our Lord grew closer every single day.
Just praying, my walk with God growing every day, being there with him, feeling his presence.
It's really well, I never prayed.
I think I told you this in our last interview, Charlie.
I never prayed for an acquittal.
The Lord knows what we want.
So I prayed for the strength to get through each day and to get through every battle that I may encounter.
That's what I prayed for.
And I don't go to church.
I watch YouTube church.
Oh, yeah.
So I watch YouTube church.
Who do you watch?
Christian Church Sunday Live.
That's usually what I Google.
And then I click the first one.
Good for you.
And I really got to find a church in my area.
That's okay.
You're closer to the Lord than most people who say they're Christians are.
So that was really comforting for you then.
Yes, it was.
Feeling the Lord's presence, and I could hear people's prayers.
I can hear the Lord answering everybody's prayers, answering my prayers, and just helping us win this battle.
Because it just wasn't me on trial.
It was everybody in the world on trial.
It was everybody in the United States.
Self-defense was on trial in Wisconsin.
I think I told you this last time.
Satan, Satan, means prosecutor.
So you could go figure that one out.
Finger.
You could connect one and two.
So, you know, you're so since you got acquitted, big stress reliever, but you see all these obstacles, right?
You still want to live a normal life.
And you see the power these media companies have.
And they just get to go on with their life.
And meanwhile, they just leave people completely damaged forever.
Exactly.
Like, you experienced it, Charlie.
I've never been lied about.
Neither.
Yes, I experience it every day.
And you understand the lies.
Especially with Amfest.
Did you see the lies they were spreading about us speaking together?
Yes.
Like, thank you again for having us.
Wasn't that the funnest thing ever?
It was amazing.
You know what I loved about that?
It's like how angry these unhappy people got that you got a rock star entrance.
And I was like, yeah, of course he did.
Obviously, comes out.
He's got the lights everywhere.
Charlie, I do got to ask you a question.
I didn't hear this song until like three days after.
I couldn't hear anything.
What was that song?
It was like Wicca Wicca Kyle Ridded House.
I'll be like, wait, what?
That's like a Benny Johnson, like Drew Hernando.
Who made it?
I have no idea.
We have a whole like subreddit culture that I'm not involved in around here.
But that was so much fun.
But yeah, people were lying, obviously.
And all the support there was just so beautiful and amazing.
Well, that's true.
There are millions of people that are behind you.
Truly.
So you're going to keep on living your life, but you're going to do this?
Yeah, I'm going to live my life.
I'm starting college here at ASU in March.
So yeah, I'm just going to continue living my life, learning to be a pilot, doing my undergrad, going to law school.
I'm helping my buddy at his rehab project right now.
So I'm doing a lot of like electrical work.
I got to rip down an entire kitchen the other day.
And was that wiring a mess?
You know who I'm talking to, Mr. A-Dog.
And you're just enjoying life.
Yeah, just enjoying life, trying to be as normal as possible.
Oh, and poor Milo.
Living Life Fully 00:01:05
Your dog.
Yeah, poor Milo.
Why?
He got snipped the other day.
Oh, really?
He's in a cone.
Oh, geez.
So, why'd you do that?
Why did I do it?
Was he too high energy?
His energy level is through the roof.
Is it higher or lower since then?
I don't know.
He's been a little out there on that medicine they give him.
But he keeps running into the wall.
Yeah, I know.
It's the most hysterical thing I've ever done.
My boyhood dog, I remember that.
Not fun.
You met Briggs.
Yeah, I love your new.
It's a Dutch Shepherd, right?
Oh, I just want to take him home with me.
Yeah, he's a beast.
He's terrific.
Well, Kyle, we're behind you 100%.
T-M-A-P.org.
It's going to be T-Map.org, T-M-A-P.
We're behind you, man.
God bless you.
Thank you so much, Charlie.
You bet.
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