Kyle Rittenhouse, who remains some kind of B-list conservative celebrity despite the fact what one might call his claim to fame is killing two people, stopped by Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News this week to discuss a new lawsuit against him from Gaige Grosskreutz, who is now pursuing civil claims that also implicate local law enforcement in Wisconsin.
Grosskreutz is one of the individuals who Rittenhouse shot during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The two others were killed, and Rittenhouse infamously went on trial in connection to the violence but was acquitted. Grosskreutz at one juncture pointed a gun of his own at Rittenhouse. Meanwhile, police have faced criticism for allegedly pushing some of the demonstrators in the city that night towards an area where armed right-wing fanatics were known to have gathered, and Rittenhouse is also facing related litigation from family of one of those he killed.
“If you win in court, you’re acquitted, rightfully so, they’re gonna take you to civil court, and they’re gonna take you for everything you’re worth, they’re gonna drive you into bankruptcy and drown you in a mountain of legal bills,” Rittenhouse insisted to Carlson. “They” who, Kyle? Rittenhouse eventually briefly referenced the lawyers on the other side in the Grosskreutz case, but the consistent conservative idea of some kind of unseen force persecuting them remains a simply odd thing.
Asked by the host about funding behind the other side in Grosskreutz’s lawsuit, Rittenhouse got rather quickly to spelling out a crowdfunding page where viewers could donate in ostensible support of his legal defense. “If they can come after me, they will come after you,” Rittenhouse claimed, although it’s not like everybody is going to show up in a town where they don’t even live and kill people. Rittenhouse also complained about his supposed foes allegedly plotting to basically try and stop him from living a “normal” 20-year-old’s life. Well, most people at 20 haven’t shown up somewhere they don’t live toting around a firearm, which they then used to shoot people. Besides, Rittenhouse has also tried to capitalize on his infamy, even just in popularity terms, planning multiple event appearances — two of which reports indicated were cancelled by the venues. After a Texas brewery cancelled his event, that business faced threats.
Fundamentally, the same system these people are citing to try and defend the idea Rittenhouse was just acting in self-defense and in line with the Second Amendment gives someone like Grosskreutz the opportunity to present claims in court, where, like with anybody else who brings a case, his contentions will be handled according to established principles of due process. What is it? Rights for me and not for thee? Rittenhouse’s Fox interview is below:
