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The mom of Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Kyle Rittenhouse has a message for President Joe Biden that should definitely get his attention and the attention of other politicians who want to use people to score political points.
On Saturday, the mother of the 18-year-old, appeared on Fox News on Saturday and let it be known that there is a possible lawsuit headed for the president.
The mom appeared on “Fox & Friends” to talk about the case, and her son, and was asked if she would sue Biden for defamation after the case was done to which she gave a six-word answer, Fox News reported.
“Our lawyers are gonna handle that,” Wendy Rittenhouse said.
The mom had appeared on Fox News days before and expressed her thoughts on what she said Biden did to her son before he became president and appeared to set the groundwork for a possible defamation case.
Last year, during the presidential election campaign, Biden attacked Donald Trump for not disavowing “white supremacists” as he tweeted a video featuring a photo of the teenage Rittenhouse.
“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,” he 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. pic.twitter.com/Q3VZTW1vUV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020
“When I saw that I was shocked, I was angry. President Biden don’t [sic] know my son whatsoever, and he’s not a White supremacist. He’s not a racist. And [Biden] did that for the votes. And I was so angry for a while at him and what he did to my son, he defamed him,” Wendy Rittenhouse said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday, Fox News reported.
Wendy Rittenhouse also explained, on Saturday, why her son chose to take the stand in his own defense.
“He wanted to take the stand, and he wanted to tell what happened to him that night, and I didn’t know he was going to take the stand until that day, and I was scared, but Kyle did a wonderful job, and I couldn’t be prouder of him,” she said.
And she wants the case decided by the jury based on the facts and not a pressure campaign waged by celebrities and the media.
“I’m hoping that the outcome is … a not guilty verdict, but I know a lot of people out there want my son to be guilty,” she said. “It’s in the hands of the jury, and watching them, they’ve been taking notes, listening to the truth, and I hope they take that into what the outcome is going to be – not from the media, not from the president of the United States, not from celebrities, not from athletes: It’s about the truth.”
Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of homicide for shooting Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, with an AR-15. The third person Rittenhouse shot, Gaige Grosskreutz, survived and testified Monday.
Rittenhouse was also charged with possessing a weapon by a person under 18, and multiple counts of reckless endangerment.
At trial, the prosecution tried to convey that the defendant went to the riots and had a gun with him because he intended to use it. The defendant pleaded not guilty to all charges and testified that he fired his weapon, all eight times, in self-defense.
“I see this man trying to kick my son in the face …. When I look at the video with that guy pointing a gun to my son’s head, I thought: he was going to die,” she said of the video of the shooting on Thursday.
She said that her son “has a lot of healing to do” and experiences “nightmares.”
But she did have nice things to say about the judge in the case.
“The judge is very fair. The people that I talked to that lived in Kenosha all their lives. They told me that Judge Schroeder is a very fair judge and he doesn’t allow no-nonsense [sic] in his courtroom,” she said.
