'Kyle, I got to know him a little bit,' Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that aired Tuesday night. 'He called, he wanted to know if he could come over and say hello cause he was a fan.'
acquittal last week on all charges
"That was prosecutorial misconduct," Trump said of the case against Rittenhouse. "He should have not have had to suffer through a trial for that. He was going to be dead.""If he didn't pull that trigger, that guy that put the gun to his head, in one-quarter of a second, he was going to pull the trigger," the former president added. "Kyle would've been dead.
"This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense," Rittenhouse said. "I'm not a racist person. I support the BLM movement. I support peacefully demonstrating."In his interview with Banfield, which aired Tuesday on NewsNation, the teen was asked about the offers for internships he's received from far-right members of Congress, including Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.
"I didn't know that the OK hand sign was a symbol for white supremacy just as I didn't know those people in the bar were Proud Boys," Rittenhouse said. "They were set up by my former attorney who was fired because of that, for putting me in situations like that with people I don't agree with."
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