Tue Nov 23, 2021 – 11:23 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Former President Donald Trump congratulated Kyle Rittenhouse after the 18-year-old was found not guilty of all charges relating to self-defense during a Black Lives Matter riot last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
One of the men Rittenhouse killed in self-defense was a convicted pedophile, and the other had a criminal past which included threatening to kill his little brother.
The full text of Trump’s message read, “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!”
Leftist media outlets had reported with heavy bias against Rittenhouse at the time of the shooting last year and throughout the trial.
One part of the media narrative surrounding Kyle Rittenhouse has been the notion that he was a “white supremacist.” MSNBC headlined an article with the accusation that the “trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill.”
After the shooting took place, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Rittenhouse a “white supremacist,” although both men who were killed in the exchange were white, as is Rittenhouse.
Donald Trump said in August 2020, “He was trying to get away from them, I guess,
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