Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, revealed in his first post-acquittal interview with Tucker Carlson that he had been forced to hire bodyguards after his acquittal on Friday.
The teen lays some of the blame on President Joe Biden who he accused of ‘malice’ and ‘defamation’ after the president labeled him a white supremacist.
On September 30 last year, the then-candidate tweeted an attack on former President Donald Trump and said: “There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.”
On Monday night, Rittenhouse said that he wanted President Biden to take another glance at the case.
“Mr. President, if I would say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial, and understand the facts before you make a statement,” he said.
“It’s actual malice, defaming my character for him to say something like that. It’s quite hysterical how nobody can go back and look at the facts of the case.”
“He crossed state lines, false. He’s a white supremacist, false. None of that is true. The lies that they can get away with spreading just sickening and it’s a disgrace to this country,” Rittenhouse continued.
The teen also said that he had “really good lawyers” who were looking into defamation charges.
He said he was afraid to go out alone. “I’m at a place now to where I have to have people with me, because people want to kill me just because I defended myself, and they are too ignorant to look at the facts of what happened,” he expressed.
“I see some of the threats. Some of the things people say is absolutely sickening.”
The 18-year-old sat down with Carlson after he was cleared of all charges on Friday. When asked where the cops were during the rioting and chaos, he answered: “I’m not sure really. They have a hard job, for sure.”
Rittenhouse also slammed the leadership of the city and the state. “The National Guard should have been called August 23. The city of Kenosha failed the community. The governor, Tony Evers, failed the community.”
The teen has hired bodyguards and plans to move away to live a quiet life as “people want to kill me, just because I defended myself.”
“I was an innocent 17 year old who was violently attacked and defended myself,” he expressed. “Apparently for a lot of the people on the left it is wrong to want to defend your community.”
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