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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKyle Rittenhouse claims ex-lawyer 'set him up' for Proud Boys pic.
Kyle Rittenhouse claimed his ex-attorney set him up for a photo of him posing with purported members of the Proud Boys and making a hand gesture used by white supremacists.
Rittenhouse blasted his former legal team, John Pierce and Lin Wood, saying he didnt know the OK hand signal is now associated with white supremacy and claiming he didnt know what a militia was until after he was arrested.
The 18-year-old was seen making the gesture in a now-widely circulated picture taken in a Wisconsin bar, but prosecutors were barred from using it in the racially charged homicide case against Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people and injured a third during a confrontation in Kenosha, Wis., last year.
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This little pos will never take responsibility for anything in his life! Ever!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)maxsolomon
(33,397 posts)Pierce and Wood latched on to this kid immediately, because they smelled money. Their manipulations put him in that bar; he and his mom didn't even know what Proud Boys were at the time, as they're low-information exurbanites. He liked Cop Culture.
That said, fuck him. For a myriad of reasons.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)I find that EXTREMELY hard to believe and how do you know they didnt know that they didnt know what the proud boys were? Because they said so?
maxsolomon
(33,397 posts)I said Proud Boys, not a generic "Militia". I "know" it because I read this long article in the New Yorker, which discusses that incident (and Pierce & Wood) at length:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilante
I am not in the habit of dismissing well-sourced, long-form journalism that passes Hanlon's Razor merely because the publication is called "MSM" or "Corporate Media" on DU.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)Look he is running away from this because his lawyers know that this picture totally fucks his defamation lawsuit.
A kid who likely frequents gun sites doesnt know what the proud boys are? Please.
maxsolomon
(33,397 posts)did not know that the PBs in that bar were PBs, despite their tats and singing "Proud of your Boy". they thought they were just pro-Rittenhouse security volunteers until they learned later.
he and his mom made some bad choices that a legitimate defense lawyer, not a grifter like Pierce, would have made sure he didn't make.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)maxsolomon
(33,397 posts)someday you might want to read that article.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)I also listened to the twice elected DNC Chair in Wi who is also a lawyer explain that he has every reason to deny being a whit supremacist and that he knew what he was doing in the photo because of his defamation lawsuit.
And NYT and what it used to be.
Harker
(14,034 posts)PatSeg
(47,583 posts)Very easily manipulated and probably wanted to be one of the "cool kids". Plus he was getting so much attention. He's going to be so disappointed come the day when the attention is no longer there.
Harker
(14,034 posts)The "Bruh I'm just tryna be famous" approach to life won't hold up if his only talent is for shooting people.
He is going to wake up in the very near future and there won't be any cameras in his face or politicians singing his praises on Twitter. No GoFundMe pages or Facebook memes. People are just using him and he is too young and naïve to realize it. Sadly, he might do something else reckless and dangerous to bring the limelight back on him. Basically, his life is over before its even begun.
Harker
(14,034 posts)My god, my life might be over."
There's hope.
PatSeg
(47,583 posts)"My presidency is over", but unfortunately it wasn't. Like Trump, he might believe he has been given another chance or more disturbing, that he is untouchable and invincible.
Harker
(14,034 posts)PatSeg
(47,583 posts)FBaggins
(26,757 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,951 posts)I don't know anything for that matter. Proud Boys never heard of them. BLM's never heard anything about them.
Sorry Kyle but you were seen SMILING for the photo op. If you had been forced to take your pic with them it would have SHOWN for disapproval by not SMILING and instead having a why am I here look. You wanted to be there as you see these kinds of Boys as your peers.
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)Note the White Power fingers.
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Not. happening.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)And all of that donation money he got will get sucked up in a hurry. Those big smiles are temporary. He'll be spending years in the courtroom.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)... while wearing body armor supervised at night.
That would be some shit right there
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Murdering liar.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Hes a product now. Hell milk it. Theyll milk him. Itll be a circle-milk.
eShirl
(18,503 posts)give me a frikkin break
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)WTF is he still allowing himself to used by Fox. Maybe Wood and the boys weren't cutting him in on the grift proceeds.
Monohull
(52 posts)for conspiring to violate federal law for his role in the straw purchase?
Kaleva
(36,340 posts)Ocelot II
(115,833 posts)Whether Rittenhouse had any involvement with the Proud Boys or white supremacist groups before he went to Kenosha isn't clear (this meeting was after he was charged), and I have no doubt Wood and Pierce arranged the meeting. They have their own agenda, and Rittenhouse was their useful idiot. If he hadn't got a different lawyer he might even have been convicted of something, because Wood is an incompetent loon.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)That picture completely fucks up his defamation suits.
70sEraVet
(3,509 posts)70sEraVet
(3,509 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,928 posts)if he hasnt already started. Cashing in on murder, right in time for MAGA Christmas.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)pecosbob
(7,543 posts)634-5789
(4,175 posts)WarGamer
(12,463 posts)Going with the local Defense Attorney was a smart move.
David__77
(23,496 posts)