In this exclusive interview we talk face to face with Kyle’s mom and attorney. Kyle Rittenhouse is a name we can never forget. On that fated night in Kenosha, who was the real victim? Those closest to him speak out.
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| I'm going to freak you out by reminding you how incredibly long this year has been when I tell you that those clips you just saw from Kenosha, Wisconsin were just from August 25th. | |
| I know it feels like that was maybe a year ago or so. | |
| And if you want to know what that was and you're not aware of this, well, that was the faded night on the third night of rioting, the third night of people burning down a city, the shootings happened with a young man named Kyle Rittenhouse. | |
| Now, people are talking about all types of things about, you know, a coffee company, whether he's a white supremacist. | |
| And there's a lot of argument about if he's a hero. | |
| But has anybody ever just like sat down and said, hey, I'm going to talk to his family. | |
| I'm going to talk to his legal team and let's get a firsthand account and an update on what's actually going on. | |
| Well, I thought that. | |
| And you, a lot of you guys asked me about that. | |
| So, hey, what do we do? | |
| We are doing our best to, you know, take things to the next level here at Slightly Offensive, which of course is the best worst show on Blaze TV. | |
| But this might be one of our best worst shows. | |
| We have Kyle Rittenhouse's mom, Wendy, and one of the members of his legal team, John Pierce, who have flown down from an undisclosed location to join us for a very serious and I would say in many ways, groundbreaking interview to fix the narrative and to clarify the narrative of what's happening. | |
| I want to remind you that this investigation is not only an open investigation, but this is America. | |
| You are innocent until proven guilty. | |
| And according to his legal team, they believe that he would be acquitted on all charges once all the evidence is brought before the court. | |
| But to the tech companies that would like to censor this, I challenge you, are you higher than the courts of America? | |
| Do you consider yourself to not allow people to speak their claims, especially attorneys, family members, as they've deleted and censored Rittenhouse off of so many different platforms before he's even had a chance to speak for himself? | |
| Kyle couldn't join us here tonight, but I do know that Kyle wants us all to know that he's doing okay. | |
| And I really appreciate the fact that he gave us his word, even though legally he can't be here. | |
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| Now we're going to go and we're going to jump right into this interview with both Kyle Rittenhouse's mom and with one of the attorneys that's involved in the case. | |
| So I have here in the studio Miss Wendy Rittenhouse, Kyle's mom. | |
| First of all, thank you so much for being here. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Yeah, awesome. | |
| And I also have part of the team, the legal team, as I was will say it of Kyle. | |
| We have John Pierce, a Pierce Bainbridge. | |
| Thank you so much for coming on. | |
| Thank you very much for having us. | |
| So first of all, let's start with something very simple. | |
| I like what you guys are wearing. | |
| You're relaxed. | |
| Your shirt says Second Amendment. | |
| Why'd you choose to wear that? | |
| For Kyle. | |
| I wore this shirt just for him. | |
| And it's for, you know, Second Amendment, right, self-defense. | |
| And that's what Kyle did. | |
| And you know that you would get pushback against his mom with what's happened, right? | |
| You're still coming out and you're saying, no matter what anybody's saying, you're still fighting for that. | |
| I mean, what do you say to the people who would hate on you for wearing something like that? | |
| It's just a shirt. | |
| It's just a shirt. | |
| It's 100% cotton. | |
| It's just a shirt. | |
| But it's my right, my freedom to wear this shirt. | |
| I love it. | |
| And then there's something kind of special about your hat that you didn't want to take it off. | |
| The producer was like, John, could you remove the hat? | |
| You're not taking it off. | |
| Why are you holding on to that? | |
| Well, most importantly, it has the American flag, but this is Kyle's hat. | |
| And this is Kyle, what Kyle had on, you know, the day that we set him free. | |
| And I don't have the Black Rifle Coffee Company t-shirt on today. | |
| But I want to make sure everybody knows Kyle's a huge fan of the Thin Blue Line brand specifically. | |
| Kyle, awesome. | |
| And so as we jump into this, right? | |
| I mean, so we have two sides of it here. | |
| We have, you know, his mom, somebody who knows him, who loves him. | |
| We have the legal side of things now who probably knows him in ways that he probably doesn't even know himself now, the back end of how crazy things have gotten. | |
| But I want to start out here before all this happened, right? | |
| Before Kyle Rittenhouse was a name that people knew. | |
| Okay, so you're his mother and you know Kyle Rittenhouse before the nights, especially on August 25th in Kenosha. | |
| Who is Kyle Rittenhouse? | |
| Kyle is a caring young man. | |
| He's always about helping people. | |
| You know, since he was little, he would just go to neighbor's house, hey, you need help by breaking the yard, snow, shoving the snow and everything like that. | |
| And when he got older, I mean, he wanted to do something, you know, to make a difference. | |
| He wanted to go in the Marines and everything like that. | |
| When he turned 17, he went to the Marines to sign up and everything, but he got disqualified because of, I think it was medical issues or something like that. | |
| I don't remember as much because we have a hectic life and everything, working and everything, all of us in the family. | |
| And he was always about helping everybody. | |
| And he had like this med kit. | |
| He had, I mean, forever, he would have like gloves, a tourniquet, bandaids, I mean, wrap and everything like that. | |
| That it was just so, he would just take it anywhere. | |
| He would like ride his bike. | |
| If someone needed something, he's like, oh, I got a bandaid here. | |
| You know, he was always about caring and helping people. | |
| And that's what he was, he was, He just, it makes me proud to have him as my son because how he is, you know, he's a very helpful young man. | |
| And I can't even be prouder of him and the way he is. | |
| You know, if you, I know you met him that night and everything. | |
| I wish you would have met him before that. | |
| You wouldn't know how he is. | |
| He would, if you were hurt, he would help you no matter what. | |
| He would take off his own shirt off his own back. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| I'm getting a little bit emotional here. | |
| We're talking about my boy. | |
| He, I love my son so much and I'm proud of him. | |
| And I can't, words can't describe how much I love my son and I'm so proud of him. | |
| So can I ask you this? | |
| You know, when we look at that, that night, obviously, like, you know, I met Kyle previously. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I had spoken to him. | |
| And one of the main reasons why I talked to Kyle specifically is because I know that anybody who is white, anybody who's carrying a gun, the media is going to say these are white supremacists. | |
| These are white nationalists. | |
| That's the immediate default for anybody who's white or patriotic. | |
| So I wanted to go out and talk to some of these guys that were standing around the businesses and just say, hey, what are you out here for? | |
| What are you doing? | |
| One thing interesting is that Kyle told me, you know, I'm basically out here to protect business, but also to help people who might be hurt. | |
| Doesn't sound like somebody who's looking to be a supremacist or to start some sort of a white nation. | |
| This is somebody who came out with the intent to help his city and even to help the people who were attacking the city if they got hurt. | |
| And, you know, I kind of want to get your comment on this. | |
| You know, with his intent, why was Kyle out that night? | |
| Like, America wants to know, right? | |
| Besides the little quick video clips and stuff, why was he there? | |
| Well, you know, this is Kyle's community. | |
| You know, he works in that community. | |
| His father's from that community and he loves that community. | |
| And Kenosha, Kenosha was burning down. | |
| It didn't burn down for one night. | |
| It didn't burn down for two nights. | |
| It was the third night that, you know, the mayor of Kenosha held the police back. | |
| The governor of Wisconsin refused the president's offer to send a National Guard. | |
| And, you know, Kyle, he worked on August 25th as a lifeguard and he stayed at a friend's house that night in Kenosha. | |
| And, you know, the next morning, you know, they decided that somebody needed to at least do something to help clean up their community. | |
| And so. | |
| Can I just clarify here? | |
| So the narrative is that, you know, Kyle went out and crossed state boundaries into a city that wasn't his own with the firearms. | |
| You're saying he was just working the day before. | |
| He stayed that at a friend's house. | |
| That's exactly. | |
| So he worked on the 24th as a lifeguard at the Rexplex in Kenosha, near Kenosha, adjacent to Kenosha. | |
| And he stayed at a friend's house that night. | |
| And in the morning, the city had been burning for two days. | |
| Their city is burning down. | |
| And so, you know, these are, as Wendy said, Kyle's one of the most service-oriented human beings I've ever known. | |
| It's really quite something. | |
| You know, I'm not even sure where he gets it. | |
| I mean, it's amazing. | |
| And so, you know, they wanted to do something. | |
| And so, you know, they felt that it was wrong, that the schools were burning down, you know, graffiti was being put on the schools, that businesses were being burned down. | |
| So they decided, you know, they're going to go and clean up some graffiti at the school. | |
| And so they went with one of Kyle's sisters and they cleaned some graffiti off of the school. | |
| And then, you know, they also just walked around the downtown to just see the damage that had been done. | |
| And they came across a business owner who had, you know, 80% of his life's work had already been burned to the ground. | |
| And they just said, hey, if there's anything we can do, you know, please let us know. | |
| Then later in the day, that business owner, you know, reached out to them and said, can you help? | |
| And so, you know, Kyle went down there specifically for two reasons and two reasons only. | |
| He didn't go down there to play police officer, did not go down there to shoot anyone. | |
| He is not a white supremacist. | |
| He went down there with his Medikit that he always carries to help treat wounded protesters, which he did. | |
| And keep in mind, he treated people who were rioting. | |
| He didn't go down there. | |
| He didn't treat the people who are also there protecting businesses. | |
| He treated the people who were there rioting. | |
| Think about that for a second, right? | |
| So he took his Medikit and then he went down there to help protect these businesses. | |
| And of course he took a firearm. | |
| It was a war zone. | |
| If he didn't have that firearm, he would have been dead. | |
| And he was absolutely legally entitled to carry that in Wisconsin. | |
| And, you know, unfortunately, things started to transpire where he had no choice but to defend himself. | |
| Can we pause there for a second? | |
| Because legally, this is where I get a little confused. | |
| And I think a lot of my viewers and even like my listeners, they get a little bit sidetracked on the narrative. | |
| So number one, he was 17 during these events. | |
| He's not going to be turning 18 until the next year. | |
| But you said that he's getting charged as an adult, correct? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay, so he's getting charged as an adult, but they're saying he can stand trial as an adult, but he wasn't legally allowed to carry the gun. | |
| Can you explain why was he legally allowed to carry the gun? | |
| Because I don't understand that. | |
| Yeah, I mean, it seems like a strange thing, doesn't it? | |
| And so, you know, I'm not going to get into the legal intricacies of precisely, you know, kind of why that charge is as faintly flawed as it is. | |
| I promised that to our Wisconsin criminal defense lawyers that they'll handle that at trial. | |
| But he was absolutely legally entitled to have that kind of firearm at the age of 17 in Wisconsin. | |
| Wisconsin is an open carry state. | |
| He was absolutely legally entitled to have that firearm at the age of 17. | |
| If it had been a different type of firearm, perhaps with a shorter barrel, then there may be an issue. | |
| But he was absolutely legally entitled to have that firearm. | |
| And to debunk another piece of the narrative that people seem to want to just keep saying, even though everybody knows it's a lie. | |
| He did not cross state lines without a firearm. | |
| That firearm was in the state of Wisconsin. | |
| And that's, I mean, Illinois, that's why Illinois didn't bring any firearm charges against him because he never possessed it in the state of Illinois. | |
| And so that, you know, that piece of the case is, look, the whole case is clear as day. | |
| This is a case of absolute, perfect, total self-defense. | |
| And that firearm charge is just as ridiculous. | |
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| Let's jump right back in to the interview with Wendy and John. | |
| Let's look back for a second. | |
| You know, I almost got shocked today. | |
| I got off a phone call with somebody at a network, and I remember they told me, they would go, Can you remember back to August 25th? | |
| I looked at my producer and I go, Can you believe Kenosha was just back in August? | |
| I mean, this has been the longest year in the history of years for a lot of people, but specifically you guys. | |
| And I know you, as his mother, we were talking a little earlier, and you were getting real, you were getting emotional because this has been a really heavy year for you and your family. | |
| I know Kyle would probably want to be here. | |
| I know you'd want to talk. | |
| I know it's sensitive right now. | |
| We're in the middle of an open investigation. | |
| But I want to look back to that night, right? | |
| Even as a reporter, somebody who was out there, I was broken from seeing what was happening on American soil. | |
| But it's one thing for me, just as an American, seeing what's happening to my country, seeing what's happening to my city. | |
| It's another to have a family member directly affected. | |
| That night, what happened? | |
| How did you find out about the altercations with Kyle, allegedly, and these individuals? | |
| And what was going through your head? | |
| That night, still, it felt like a nightmare. | |
| I mean, that day was one of the worst days of my life. | |
| And with everything that happened that night, I still can't remember it. | |
| I went to bed. | |
| I text him, say, are you okay? | |
| It was like at 11:30. | |
| He said, I'm okay, mom. | |
| I'm doing medic. | |
| And I'm like, what? | |
| I'm like, didn't, I'm like, what's that mean? | |
| You know? | |
| And I went to sleep. | |
| I woke up not even about 10, 15 minutes after I fell asleep. | |
| Like something happened. | |
| I'm like, I jolted out of my sleep. | |
| And I only did that another time. | |
| That's when my dad died. | |
| And I'm like panicking, something's wrong, something's wrong. | |
| I'm yelling at the girls. | |
| We need to find Kyle. | |
| We need to find Kyle. | |
| And the girls were his sisters were like, I'm trying to get a hold of someone. | |
| Kyle's phone wasn't going through. | |
| I'm like, call. | |
| I'm like, we have to go to Kenosha. | |
| I drove to Kenosha and I went towards like where the pick and save is on highway 50. | |
| It was like dead. | |
| The whole city was like dead. | |
| You only see like maybe one car and the rest, it was like, it was like a ghost town. | |
| And I'm like, okay, let's go home and everything. | |
| And I just sped home, sped there, sped back. | |
| And the time I got there, he was there. | |
| I'm not going to go into detail and everything, but when I saw him, I just hugged him. | |
| I was crying. | |
| And I just told him I just flogged him and just hold on tight. | |
| And that's all I'm going to say because the rest of it. | |
| Yeah, we can't go. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I, well, I want to bring this up. | |
| You know, there's obviously a lot of reports, people saying, oh, here's what happened. | |
| People even sort of mocking this response from the family. | |
| The stories I've read is about how he felt sick, how he was not happy with what happened. | |
| I was there. | |
| I remember when this happened, this did not come across to me like a killer. | |
| This did not come across to me like somebody who wanted to do harm. | |
| In that situation, one thing I tell people: when the first shots went off, the first shots were not from Kyle. | |
| And I can say that. | |
| He didn't fire the first shots and he wasn't the last shots of the night. | |
| But what's so interesting is in the situation that Kyle was in, you know, I'm a veteran of this stuff. | |
| I go to these things. | |
| I'm there. | |
| This pushed me to a new level as well. | |
| In the fact that during the first alleged altercation between Kyle and one of the assailants, call him an assailant, somebody attacking people on U.S. soil, the people directly behind him that I was filming were lighting a car on fire. | |
| They were lighting a car on fire. | |
| And the argument about this is why was Kyle out that night? | |
| But the question is, how did Kyle get to be the narrative? | |
| And why is nobody talking about everybody else that was out that night? | |
| Yeah, so let me take a first crack at this. | |
| So here's a real question. | |
| So where are the charges for arson for the people burning down the city? | |
| Where are the charges for the organized anarchists who came in from other states to help burn down a city? | |
| Who were clearly financed by folks that we probably recognize a name or two? | |
| Where are the charges for attempted murder against somebody trying to murder Kyle while he was in these situations? | |
| And where are the charges for insurrection on American soil? | |
| So you're absolutely right. | |
| Somehow, some way in this world we're in now, it's almost become Orwellian, where because the mainstream media obviously has a narrative that they want to pitch. | |
| And quite frankly, a presidential candidate who may be the president-elect outright defamed Kyle as a white supremacist the night after the first presidential debate. | |
| That's a tough hill to climb up to counter that narrative. | |
| But what is nice to see is that, and I've been in the middle of this from a couple of days afterwards until today, is that people understand now what happened and people understand that Kyle is. | |
| The New York Times, I might even add, who's notorious for misinformation and inaccuracies and bias, seems to give the account that actually does justify Kyle's actions that night. | |
| I should keep saying alleged actions because this hasn't gone through court. | |
| But I mean, when the New York Times is on your side, I mean, does that shock you? | |
| I mean, so, so, um, you know, the New York Times, and I mentioned this on when I was on Tucker Carlson, you know, just a few nights after the events. | |
| You know, the New York Times, I think, is the first, you know, the first ones who really analyzed closely and identified that Mr. Zaminsky was the first individual who actually fired a shot and fired a shot. | |
| You know, he was with Mr. Rosenbaum, and they were basically hunting Kyle and attempting to ambush, isolate him and ambush him and attempting to kill him. | |
| And Mr. Zaminsky fired the first shot as Mr. Rosenbaum was coming at Kyle at speed. | |
| Mr. Zminski fired a shot in Kyle's direction from behind Kyle. | |
| And Kyle found himself, he was trying to retreat as rapidly and as much as he could. | |
| He found himself surrounded on all sides by rioters with deadly weapons and a shot fired in his direction from behind him. | |
| And then Mr. Rosenbaum immediately setting upon him at full speed, attempting to masked, by the way, which is a crime in Wisconsin. | |
| He had his shirt wrapped around his face. | |
| He was masked, attempting to just, he was setting upon him, attempting to take his AR-15. | |
| Kyle had absolutely no choice but to respond. | |
| He was in imminent fear of serious bodily harm or death. | |
| Wow. | |
| And I think a lot of people don't realize, too, in those situations, you don't have time to think. | |
| You can act. | |
| You can either act to save your life or you can take the necessary precautions like in that way, or you have to leave it up to chance, which in this case, I would say I've never seen such violent people. | |
| I was around Mr. Rosenbaum earlier in the night. | |
| He was using the N-word, telling people to shoot him, agitating. | |
| Some of these individuals were lighting trash cans on fire, pushing them towards gas stations, right? | |
| And when you come down to this, I know what I saw, you know what you saw. | |
| But when I think about the way that we're looking at the situation, you and I are looking at this based off of truth. | |
| So are we. | |
| Whether he's your son or your client, it doesn't matter. | |
| We're Americans and we want justice. | |
| If Kyle's wrong, then he should be held to the accountability if he's wrong. | |
| If he's in the right, we should want truth. | |
| But what we've seen is the narrative is not even about Kyle and the shootings. | |
| The narrative is about whether Kyle is a white supremacist. | |
| And I want to talk to you a little bit about defamation. | |
| When you see that the media's choice of president-elect at the moment, Joe Biden, would run an ad about white supremacy, which I'm sure everyone watching right now or yourself would condemn any type of racism, using your son as a scapegoat and watching people just completely throw you and your family under the bus. | |
| I mean, how do you process this? | |
| When I saw that, that really made me angry. | |
| And how dare he use my son for laboring him as a white supremacist? | |
| He is none of that. | |
| And like I said, I will take Joe Biden down because he does not do that to my son or my family. | |
| You're messing with the wrong mother. | |
| And every time I think about that, it makes me angry. | |
| And how dare he? | |
| That's my son. | |
| He does not have the right to label my son as a white supremacist. | |
| He is none of that, what he said. | |
| And with him using his image and everything, everywhere you look on the media or you see Kyle Rittenhouse, white supremacist, 100% lies. | |
| It just irritates me and it makes me mad that Joe Biden labeled my son as a white supremacist. | |
| He's none of that. | |
| He's not a racist. | |
| And it just infuriates me that he did this. | |
| And let me add something on that point, you know, and really think about this. | |
| How does Kyle Rittenhouse receive a fair trial at this point? | |
| Now that, you know, potentially the chief magistrate of the nation Has used him as a political pawn and labeled him as directly as possible as a white supremacist during this period of American history when that is such a hot-button issue. | |
| And think of the irony where the prosecutors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who apparently are so afraid of me speaking the truth and defending my client, which he has a constitutional right to have me defend him in the court of public opinion when he's being vilified like this. | |
| They're so concerned about that that they attempt to disqualify me from the case, which I voluntarily withdrew from, anyways, for other reasons, but because I'm going to sway a jury and lead to jury nullification. | |
| It's outrageous. | |
| It's outrageous. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And it actually strikes me as interesting. | |
| When we look at this idea with Kyle, and we were talking about earlier about how, why are we just talking about Kyle when it comes to Kenosha? | |
| Because Kenosha was an act of war that happened on soil. | |
| And I want to bring some of these things up people don't know. | |
| These rioters burned down businesses that had apartments above them where there were families inside screaming, evacuated. | |
| They were burning down buildings with children inside. | |
| You know, people, they were ransacking and burning to the ground government buildings, I mean, into pulverized ashes. | |
| And when we look at what happened in the city of Kenosha, do you ever ask yourself, is there a bigger reason why all of the focus remains on Kyle instead of holding people accountable for acts of war, acts of terrorism, and human rights abuses that night? | |
| Look, I think that, and I got a, I'm a big supporter of President Trump. | |
| I have to say, if I was, if I happened to be in his position, you know, I may have been more aggressive and invoked the Insurrection Act at some point during the last several months. | |
| But I got to tell you, with respect to Kenosha specifically, I think one of the reasons that the attention, one of the reasons that they charged Kyle without any investigation whatsoever, the day after, no crime scene investigation, no serious interview of witnesses. | |
| The reason that they charged him so quickly was because one of the reasons is that they wanted to take the attention off of their bungling of the Jacob Blake situation and turn it to something that was a more favorable narrative for them as prosecutors and as the government officials. | |
| And I think, look, just generally speaking, this year, anything that the radical left or the mainstream media can't come up with to distract from the fact that it's their supporters. | |
| It's the Antifa, the idea that Joe Biden talks about. | |
| It's their supporters that are burning down American cities. | |
| Any other time in our history, that would be known as insurrection and rebellion, in addition to arson, destruction of property and everything else. | |
| So it's a propaganda effort to simply turn attention away from that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And so when we talk about that, Wendy, and I agree, I think it is propaganda. | |
| But this is like, to many, Kyle is just, you know, some people think he's a hero. | |
| Some people think he's Hitler. | |
| Some people think he's just a kid that was out there. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| To you, that's your son. | |
| How does it make you feel as a mother seeing your son being used as a political toy without respect for his civility, his human rights? | |
| Not to mention just in general, the respect that you would expect for Americans to have to one another. | |
| I mean, this is your son. | |
| I mean, how do you feel about this? | |
| It angers me that People been doing this to him, label him as white surprises, a terrorist, Hitler. | |
| He's none of that. | |
| It's all self-defense. | |
| And people that don't violence, burning down the city, looting, they're the ones that need to be prosecuted, be charged with everything. | |
| And then this is why, this is precisely why we have the Second Amendment. | |
| This is precisely why we have the Second Amendment. | |
| Individual Americans, lawfully bearing arms are the last line of defense for a free republic. | |
| They're the last line of defense. | |
| And despite the sweatshirt and baseball cap, I'm pretty good at some of this historical legal stuff. | |
| And I got to tell you that I don't think it's even close that this is probably the most important prosecution, litigation, legal case in the history of self-defense in the Anglo-American legal system. | |
| The Boston massacre is probably pretty close. | |
| When John Adams stood up and defended British soldiers in a very high intensity trial at a time similar to this when there's so much strong feelings and the mob is relentless. | |
| But this is very important. | |
| The right of self-defense is a foundational right because without it, none of the other rights matter. | |
| We lose all the other rights as dominoes if we lose the right of self-defense. | |
| Right. | |
| I think that you've probably experienced this. | |
| The way people feel about Kyle is they either really respect him and love him or it's the exact opposite. | |
| Right. | |
| And I think a lot of people identify with your son because what they see is the demonization of white, straight males who are strong and have a damn good trigger finger. | |
| I mean, I mean, and control. | |
| I mean, the fact is the fact that so few people were shot in the altercation really shows more restraint. | |
| If I was behind the gun, I would have had less control in that situation. | |
| I'd like to focus on that for just one second because it really is extraordinary and it's demonstrative of the fact that this was pure self-defense. | |
| I've gotten pretty close with a lot of individuals who are former members of the special operations community, including one that helped me free Kyle and extract Kyle from Kenosha on the day that we bailed him out. | |
| And those guys can't believe it. | |
| And the idea that he was so restrained in using just completely proportional force and only shooting the people he had no choice but to shoot because he was trying to kill him. | |
| Despite there being numerous other individuals in the immediate vicinity that probably could have been considered a threat. | |
| And despite the fact that after the final person was shot, the Kyle had no choice but to shoot. | |
| And he started calmly walking toward the police line. | |
| There were probably 10 to 15 shots that rang out behind him. | |
| And he simply, I think he turned his head and just kind of looked. | |
| And he didn't turn and start shooting. | |
| He calmly walked to the police line, tried to turn himself in. | |
| He had his hands up and you saw in the video, had his hands up and he's going to the police car. | |
| And they told him, get out of here, get out of here, and everything. | |
| And Kyle had no choice to go home, you know, because the police department was boarded up. | |
| And he didn't go home to went to bed. | |
| I took him to the Antioch Police Department. | |
| It was around 1, 1:30. | |
| And he, because Kenosha was locked down, there were barricades. | |
| You could not get to the police department in Kenosha or any police department in Kenosha. | |
| So think of the irony of this. | |
| So he's considered a fugitive and we went through an extradition fight. | |
| Despite the fact that he tried to turn himself into multiple police units at the scene, they told him, get out of here, go home. | |
| And despite the fact that the only other place he could have conceivably turned himself in had essentially been shut down because the mayor and the governor have law enforcement in such a state that they're in bunker mentality. | |
| And instead of being aggressive and providing some basic law and order, the police department shut down. | |
| So he has no choice. | |
| Where the hell were they? | |
| Because I want to bring this up. | |
| I was told earlier in the night that night that because we had seen the city burn for multiple days. | |
| And I want to bring this interesting point up of, I think, why a lot of people actually really feel like Kyle's a part of who they are, part of the American spirit. | |
| Not because he shot people, but because he was willing to put his life in harm's way to help people and to help his city. | |
| And the shootings are a byproduct and a sadness of the aggression of people who are trying to destroy the fabric of this country and politicians who could have prevented it. | |
| Meaning, when I saw they said National Guard was going to come in and I go, and like, I think like two Humvees and a truck came in with like 10 guys. | |
| They could have prevented it. | |
| It was their duty to prevent it. | |
| It's their most basic fundamental job. | |
| But my point is, is what do they expect? | |
| Americans to sit back and watch their cities destroyed. | |
| I mean, this is middle America. | |
| What he was doing wasn't wrong. | |
| It was noble. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| And, you know, I'm from Erie, Pennsylvania, a city very similar to Kenosha. | |
| And I think when, you know, when the riots came to Kenosha, I think everybody in America, everything changed because, you know, Kenosha is every town, USA. | |
| It's not Portland. | |
| It's not Seattle. | |
| It's not New York City. | |
| It's not Chicago. | |
| That's a Rust Belt, you know, Great Lakes, you know, American town. | |
| And law-abiding Americans don't have to sit around and watch their cities burn, you know, radically enough. | |
| We don't have to do that. | |
| And in fact, what's so noble about Kyle is, again, he simply went there to help people. | |
| What was his first act that day? | |
| What's his first instinct to clean graffiti off of a school? | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, Kyle, McKenzie, and Dominic, they went to the school, clean up the graffiti. | |
| I couldn't be prouder of those kids. | |
| You know, Dominic is not my, not my son, but I love him as a son. | |
| And he's getting railroad too from Kenosha. | |
| And I feel so bad for him. | |
| I love him like a son. | |
| And with Kyle and Dominic and McKenzie, they went there to clean up the graffiti. | |
| And I saw a couple other kids. | |
| Those kids were cleaning up. | |
| They weren't destroying anything. | |
| As Vickenzie and Kyle cleaning that graffiti up, I was proud because those kids were my kids and they were doing something. | |
| Even Dominic, he's not my son, but I was proud of Dominic also. | |
| And I think every American should be proud of them. | |
| I mean, these are teenagers. | |
| These are teenagers. | |
| Where were all the grown-ups protecting the city? | |
| Right, I think that's how a lot of us feel. | |
| And at the end of all of this, it's like we're supposed to forget that this era of America happened. | |
| And all we're supposed to remember is this one boy who went out there and got cornered. | |
| And I feel like it's a true injustice, not against just Kyle and yourself, but against the American people, letting us know. | |
| And I believe I'm not going to get too into it, but you know, the people, the power is at hand that want us to feel powerless and they want to reimagine this country. | |
| And they're using, you're scapegoating Kyle a part of that. | |
| Well, let me be very clear. | |
| It's not going to happen. | |
| We're not going to let it happen. | |
| So first of all, he's going to be acquitted of all charges. | |
| There is not a jury in this country that will unanimously find that he committed homicide. | |
| It's outrageous. | |
| It's not even close. | |
| There's about a thousand different angles of high definition video. | |
| It's an open and shut case. | |
| The charges should be dropped immediately. | |
| And Kyle should be able to move on with his life. | |
| And we are going to launch probably thousands of defamation claims, including against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and their campaign, including against Facebook and CNN and Twitter and AOC and Mark Ruffalo and every other person that defamed Kyle or this woman right here. | |
| And we are not going to stop until we make an example out of every single one of them. | |
| How do people, and this is a real question, how do people support this? | |
| Because, you know, $2 million for the bail was set. | |
| $2 million. | |
| Before we even talk about how to support it, I want to put some perspective. | |
| Your white privilege card should come out here for a moment. | |
| It does. | |
| When people call this a white supremacist, white privileged family who's getting away with murder, I mean, this is the exact opposite that's happening to you. | |
| I mean, what do you feel like when the fact that you, as you said, you're a single mother are being labeled like, oh, you know, well, yeah, you can just come up with $2 million. | |
| You know, when they said a $2 million bill, I was like, oh my God, how am I going to get that? | |
| You know, I am grateful for the American people that donated to Kyle to get him home. | |
| And we have a new website, FreeKyle USA, to raise more money. | |
| There's going to be some great merchandise on it very quickly, designed by Kyle himself, by the way. | |
| I'll get something for my friend. | |
| And it's going to cost a lot more money because that $2 million just went to his bail and everything. | |
| And they don't do 10%. | |
| In Wisconsin, it was $2 mil. | |
| Yeah, when everybody understand. | |
| I mean, that, you know, and it's just so much disinformation that, you know, it's tempting to go into, but I won't. | |
| But that $2 million is sitting with the court clerk in Kenosha County. | |
| Okay. | |
| That is not $2 million that we can now use for the defense, the cost of lawyers, the cost of experts, the cost of investigators, the cost of independent medical examiners. | |
| This is going to be a very expensive proposition. | |
| And so we need to raise a couple more million dollars. | |
| I mean, to make sure that this defense is mounted right with the great legal team that we have and the great investigators and experts that we have lined up, this is going to cost money. | |
| Okay. | |
| You know, people just, that's just reality. | |
| And so we need everybody to continue to support freekyowusa.com. | |
| And, you know, it's money that's going directly to the family. | |
| It'll be controlled by Wendy. | |
| And we need help. | |
| I'll tell you guys this personally from my heart, you know, and for the audience, to please go there because I just want you guys to know, specifically, you, Wendy, from the bottom of my heart and from the slightly offensive team, we love you guys and we support you and we really care about this. | |
| And we're trying our best. | |
| I've worked with investigators, with people to just provide as much information to push things out there, to try to raise awareness. | |
| And supporting Kyle in 2020 has not been the best PR in the world. | |
| And thank you for that. | |
| And Kyle wanted us to convey how grateful he is to you and your whole team. | |
| We will continue to take heat no matter what happens. | |
| We'll continue to remind you guys that the best way is to go to that website. | |
| And also just reminding you guys, you know, like I don't know if this is going to get taken offline. | |
| I don't know if what's going to happen to it. | |
| But please always remember to just watch our stuff at blazetv.com. | |
| Just always go there because I wanted to kind of lastly bring this up with you guys. | |
| Before even the trial has been executed and we figured out who was right or wrong according to the court standards, the public has made their decision based on what political party they're part of, thanks to tech companies who have made the name Kyle Rittenhouse a curse word, worse than curse words. | |
| They allow women to show their butts, promote their OnlyFans, you know, fetish sites to kids' feet and things that I, things I wouldn't even think of ever visiting. | |
| But I mean, from my understanding, Facebook's like deleted Kyle and you said TikTok. | |
| I mean, what happened with that? | |
| There's just so much to talk about on the subject. | |
| But, you know, TikTok created some kind of algorithm whereby when people would post videos, and whether it was in support of Kyle Rittenhouse or not in support of Kyle Rittenhouse, whenever they would, the person would say the name Kyle Rittenhouse, it would blank out, silent out the audio automatically so that you couldn't hear the name. | |
| So literally, his name shall not be spoken on TikTok. | |
| Even a group try to do a GoFundMe for raising legal fees. | |
| GoFundMe, shut me down. | |
| Because they would not have any part of Kyle Rittenhouse or even me either. | |
| They can put everything else up there, but not Kyle or me. | |
| Yeah, and I'm going to make a prediction here. | |
| I actually predict that Kyle Rittenhouse will be the end of the big tech companies. | |
| I believe that their bias, their acts as publishers in choosing one side over another in this case, their attempt to, I mean, their flat out defamation of him directly by Facebook, for example. | |
| I believe that this is going to be the moment ultimately that leads to their downfall, similar to, you know, in the past, whenever the big tobacco companies were ultimately brought to their knees. | |
| I believe that Kyle Rittenhouse is going to bring these big tech companies to their knees. | |
| I think Tech Section 230 is going to be eviscerated by what they did here, and it's about damn time. | |
| And as we kind of bring this conversation to a close, first of all, I want to appreciate just from my heart, just the time you've taken to fly down here to be with us. | |
| I know this design, even work or anything because your family's under so much assault and threat. | |
| Very vicious people. | |
| And you've been so strong, Wendy, through all of this. | |
| And I really salute you for that and am grateful. | |
| I can see the hurting heart of yours, but also the fierceness as well. | |
| And I just kind of want to End with something personal to ask you, you know, as we go forward, what do you want America to know about Kyle and your family amidst all of the chaos and the confusion? | |
| What do you want them to know? | |
| We are a loving family. | |
| We care about everything. | |
| We care about the homeless. | |
| We care about people that need help. | |
| You know, we just look back and look forward. | |
| And we just want people to just love each other like my family does. | |
| You know, all of us, we hug each other. | |
| We tell them, tell us, we tell each other we love them, love each other. | |
| I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional. | |
| Take your time. | |
| Yeah, okay. | |
| And with Kyle, he wants everybody to know that he's strong and he's so grateful that everybody that loves him and supports him. | |
| And he can't be more grateful. | |
| I couldn't be more grateful for the people that supports Kyle and all his followers that words can't, I can't put words in there. | |
| And it just makes me so overwhelmed. | |
| And it just makes my heart melt that there's some good people out there and just love each other and hold each other. | |
| Awesome. | |
| Well, guys, I want to thank you so much, Wendy and John, for really just taking that time to come here. | |
| And my heart's with you. | |
| And to those of you guys that are watching, remember it's freekyleusa.com. | |
| You can find links in the description. | |
| Although, if you can't find the links in the description, it's because they were probably removed by big tech companies. | |
| But you can't take away the voice of it. | |
| And, you know, that's very important to support that. | |
| But also, I mean, is there a way that they can, if they want to reach out and send support? | |
| I'm sure you get enough criticism already, so you're probably not afraid. | |
| Where can they find you? | |
| So, you know, the best place is FreeKyle USA on Twitter at FreeKyle USA. | |
| That is the official Twitter support page on behalf of for the family. | |
| Folks are also welcome to reach out to me directly in any way. | |
| You're accessible on Twitter. | |
| I'm probably too accessible. | |
| It's Callie Kid JMP at Callie Kidd JMP. | |
| What about you on Twitter? | |
| Kyle's Mom, 1974, one. | |
| Oh, that's really. | |
| That's very, very, very sweet. | |
| That is awesome. | |
| And guys, is your DMs open? | |
| Probably not. | |
| There's a lot of interesting things in the direct messages, but yes, they're open and people can reach out. | |
| Hopefully, you'll get some support from some of these viewers a lot. | |
| I mean, I just came out. | |
| I got it like back in August, but I was really leery, but I wouldn't say anything. | |
| I didn't like anything or the little heart emoji thing. | |
| I just read the comments and everything. | |
| And there's a lot of team Rittenhouse, President-elect Rittenhouse, Kyle's girl. | |
| I have to say, I really love them. | |
| You know, I don't know them personally, but all the love they gave to my family, I couldn't be more grateful. | |
| And Kyle's 18 in January, right? | |
| And he's single. | |
| You're going to break some women's hearts. | |
| He's going to break some women's hearts. | |
| Let's just say he's off the market for a while. | |
| For a while, the girls are, somebody's, some girls crying right now. | |
| I know. | |
| I was like, they have to go through mom. | |
| I'm the big mama bear, and I'm very overprotective of all three of my kids. | |
| I'm glad about that. | |
| Yeah, there's Faith, Kyle, and McKenzie. | |
| And no one don't mess with my kids. | |
| You know, those are my babies, and I will protect them with my own life. | |
| Just wow. | |
| You know, when you hear the emotion in Wendy Rittenhouse's voice, and you see the seriousness of John, and you just go, these people know something that the courts apparently don't. | |
| And I think that answer is that Kyle is not who the media and the judges of this world have decided in the pop culture. | |
| He's a young guy who, at his very best, was out to help people, and he didn't want to take any lives. | |
| But he was pushed to a place to where he had to protect his own life. | |
| And no American should feel like they can't protect themselves. | |
| And while I'm not happy that anybody died, I don't promote death or murder. | |
| I mean, my mom died this year. | |
| I know how bad it can be when someone dies that's close to you. | |
| But I do know when you hear Wendy and you hear the accounts from John, you say, man, I think Kyle is innocent. | |
| And I do. | |
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