Opinion by Greg Sargent: On Hannity, Trump reveals the truth about right wing lionization of Rittenhouse
: cross state lines to deliberately place himself in a combustible situation, armed to kill, in a manner likely to provoke the fighting — and lead to the killing — that did indeed take place.
Trump has in effect aligned his movement squarely with the second strain: Rittenhouse’s conduct should never have been subjected to scrutiny by a jury of his peers in the first place; Rittenhouse is the one who meted out justice; his killing in a highly confusing situation should properly have been placed all along outside the procedural realm we describe as the “rule of law.”Rittenhouse had properly acted in self-defense.
Which is the whole point: To reinforce the idea that Rittenhouse’s conduct — not just the killing, but the conduct that led up to and ultimately precipitated it — should never have been subjected to legal scrutiny at all, that it properly occurred outside the realm of the rule of law. On Nov. 21, lawmakers and activists responded to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal for the fatal shootings of racial justice protesters in 2020.
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