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The Kyle Rittenhouse Case Reaches Its Conclusion | Ep. 1377


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Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for the murder of an Antifa rioter in 2011 in the middle of a Black Lives Matter riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The defense argues that he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed a man who was in the midst of attacking him. But as it turns out, Kyle is not a white supremacist, and he's not a young man at the time of the shooting. Ben Shapiro takes a look at the timeline of the case, and explains how the case became a national news story, and how it became part of a broader Democratic narrative that painted Kyle as a racist and a criminal, and was pushed by the Democratic National Committee to make him the face of racism and white supremacy in the media and on the campaign trail in 2020. Ben Shapiro's full analysis of the evidence, and the defense's case, is available here on The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and information. The show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. You have a right to privacy. Defend your rights. at Express VPN. Subscribe to the show on the App Store or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Use the promo code: PGPodcasts to receive 10% off your first month with discount code PGPUNDERSTANDING at checkout at checkout, and receive a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint, and a free stock like VaynerMedia. when you sign up to receive $10,000 in the offer of $10 or $25,000, and get 20% off their first month, plus free shipping when you become a patron gets a complimentary product, and two years get $5,000 or $50,000 gets you an ad discount when you upgrade their offer gets the offer gets two months, and they also get a discount, they get the offer? The offer is good for two months only, they also gets two years of the deal, they can get your choice of Prime Video Provenza and Veeverver, they will also get the deal? The deal starts on Prime Video and Vimeo gets you get $4/month, they'll get an adververing the deal and they'll also get your first full-throttreever, and you'll get two months of VIP access to watch the deal starts in full-service, and all you can access all of your choice, and also get two weeks of Vimeo, and other places they'll receive all of that, too get the best deal, too discount, and will get an upgrade, too they'll have access to the best of the best vouching service?


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00:00:00.000 We review the complete timeline of the Kyle Rittenhouse case, the prosecution makes its dishonest and absurd closing argument, and the defense makes its last stand.
00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
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00:00:22.000 The jury is currently out in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial considering guilt or not guilt.
00:00:28.000 That is the obvious legal standard, of course.
00:00:31.000 And I think it's important to go back for a walk down memory lane and retrace how this became a national issue.
00:00:37.000 Because it is fascinating to see which stories in the United States become national stories and which ones simply do not.
00:00:42.000 Which crime stories become national stories that every American must have an opinion on, and which ones just sort of, they sail under the radar.
00:00:49.000 They are local news stories.
00:00:51.000 So to take an example, Kermit Gosnell, an abortionist from Philadelphia who's responsible for Essentially infanticide.
00:00:57.000 That was not a national news story.
00:00:58.000 And the media covered it as though it was national.
00:01:00.000 It was not a national news story.
00:01:02.000 It was a local crime story.
00:01:03.000 It didn't receive front page coverage nearly anywhere because it didn't mirror a narrative that the media were attempting to tell.
00:01:09.000 Whereas Kyle Rittenhouse, that story was a national news story.
00:01:11.000 And the reason it was a national news story, if you go all the way back, is because it was part of a broader democratic narrative.
00:01:17.000 That narrative was the true threat to America was white men who were running around trying to shoot People who are either black or who are allies of Black Lives Matter.
00:01:27.000 The conflict in 2020 was between racists and the Democratic coalition.
00:01:31.000 And Kyle Rittenhouse was used as the face of racism.
00:01:33.000 That was always an awkward attempt.
00:01:36.000 It was awkward because Kyle Rittenhouse had shot a guy who was a convicted child molester.
00:01:40.000 Had shot another person who had a pretty significant criminal record.
00:01:44.000 Had shot a third person with a significant criminal record.
00:01:47.000 And all three of the people he shot were attacking him.
00:01:50.000 And all three of the people he shot were white.
00:01:51.000 But, the narrative had to be drawn.
00:01:53.000 And because Kyle Rittenhouse was present, In Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the middle of a Black Lives Matter slash Antifa riot, this meant that Kyle Rittenhouse was the bad guy.
00:02:02.000 Remember, the media spent all of 2020 trying to pretend that rioters were not, in fact, rioters.
00:02:07.000 They were simply mostly peaceful protesters and that the things that they were, quote-unquote, protesting for were good and honorable and noble, like defund the police.
00:02:16.000 That was somehow a decent idea in 2020.
00:02:18.000 Meanwhile, the murder rate kicked up in America's major cities by 20, 30, 40 percent in some major American cities.
00:02:25.000 And let's not pretend that this was not pushed by the Democratic Party.
00:02:28.000 In the middle of the campaign, you'll recall in September of 2020, Joe Biden put out an ad linking Kyle Rittenhouse to white supremacists in Charlottesville.
00:02:37.000 And frankly, it seems like if Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, he's going to have a hell of a lawsuit on his hands against the Democratic National Committee.
00:02:44.000 Here is the ad including Kyle Rittenhouse from September of 2020.
00:02:49.000 Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?
00:03:05.000 OK, so you see that interspersed in this in this little question from Chris Wallace to Donald Trump in the 2020 campaign is a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha.
00:03:16.000 And linking him with white supremacists and evil militia groups.
00:03:20.000 Kyle Rittenhouse, who was there, as we will see, by all available evidence, to provide medical aid and to protect property and his own life, as it turns out.
00:03:29.000 He was linked directly by the Biden campaign to white supremacy and racism.
00:03:32.000 It was all part of the broader narrative, which was that Trump and anyone who was voting for Trump was secretly a racist and sometimes not so secretly a racist.
00:03:41.000 Hey, so Peter Doocy of Fox News asked Jen Psaki about the Rittenhouse trial yesterday at the White House.
00:03:46.000 And now it's real awkward because as it turns out, Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense.
00:03:51.000 As it turns out, Rittenhouse is not a white supremacist.
00:03:53.000 He's a 17-year-old young man at the time of the shooting.
00:03:56.000 Now he's 18.
00:03:57.000 Who was acting in self-defense after having provided medical aid to some of the rioters.
00:04:02.000 And Jen Psaki tries to dodge the question.
00:04:05.000 Even so, she can't help but kind of sneer at Rittenhouse.
00:04:10.000 As you know, closing arguments in this particular case, which I'm not speaking to, I'm just making broad comments about his own view.
00:04:17.000 There's an ongoing trial.
00:04:19.000 We're awaiting a verdict.
00:04:20.000 Beyond that, I'm not going to speak to any individuals or this case.
00:04:23.000 But the president has spoken to it already.
00:04:25.000 And his mom now, Kyle Rittenhouse's mom, came out saying that the president defamed her son.
00:04:30.000 And she claims that when the president suggested her son's a white supremacist, he was doing that to win votes.
00:04:37.000 Is that what happened?
00:04:39.000 I just have nothing more to speak to an ongoing case where the closing arguments were just made.
00:04:45.000 Oh, weird, weird how now you have nothing to say because he's president now.
00:04:49.000 You got what you wanted.
00:04:50.000 Biden got elected on the basis of a lie.
00:04:53.000 That lie was that America is broadly speaking racist and you needed Joe Biden to come in and reestablish equity.
00:04:59.000 And one of the key features of these systemic racism Blanketing America was Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:05:05.000 And now that the evidence is coming out, now Jen Psaki wants to avoid the consequences of Joe Biden's lies.
00:05:11.000 We'll see how that holds up in court in a defamation trial, which should certainly take place after this one.
00:05:17.000 Again, this is part of the broader Democratic narrative.
00:05:19.000 So Cori Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist who's been elected to Congress and is now an adjunct member of the squad, she tweeted out yesterday, quote, When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr.
00:05:31.000 was murdered and shoot at us.
00:05:33.000 They never faced consequences.
00:05:35.000 If Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it tells them that even seven years later, they can still get away with it.
00:05:40.000 So, number one, I feel like I'm gonna need like one shred of evidence from the Congresswoman that this ever happened.
00:05:48.000 I feel like that would have been a national story if there had been Black Lives Matter protests in 2014 and a group of Nazis had shown up on a nearby hill and sniped into a group of black protesters.
00:05:57.000 I feel like that might have been, like we might have heard about that just a little bit.
00:06:00.000 I'm gonna need some evidence, like one single solitary shred of evidence that this ever happened from Cori Bush.
00:06:07.000 It's like Brian Williams under fire in Iraq.
00:06:10.000 Just until I see a shred of like any evidence at all.
00:06:14.000 So that's a lie.
00:06:15.000 But then the idea is that even if that happened, Kyle Rittenhouse has something to do with that.
00:06:18.000 He's a white supremacist who is what out to shoot other white people that night in order to harm blackness or something.
00:06:25.000 But this is the narrative.
00:06:26.000 And because it's the narrative, it became a national story.
00:06:29.000 The narrative always determines what is a national story, invariably.
00:06:33.000 Local crime stories are white people shot wrongly by the cops.
00:06:37.000 Local crime stories are black people killing white people.
00:06:40.000 Those are all local crime stories.
00:06:41.000 White person killing black person is a national crime story.
00:06:45.000 And white person killing white person, if it's in the service, the narrative of the Democratic Party, that's also a national story.
00:06:52.000 So, bottom line is, if it's in the interest of the Democratic Party and a broader narrative about systemic American cruelty and racism, then it becomes a national news story because the media are just the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party.
00:07:01.000 It's the only reason that you know about Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:07:04.000 It's the only reason that we've spent all this time on Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:07:06.000 It's the only reason, frankly, why this prosecution was brought, because it is 100% clear at this point that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.
00:07:13.000 There is really no doubt.
00:07:15.000 I mean, normally, all the defense has to do in these cases is establish reasonable doubt.
00:07:20.000 By the use of a self-defense privilege or a self-defense defense, right?
00:07:24.000 That's all you have to do.
00:07:25.000 You have to show reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant acted in self-defense.
00:07:29.000 In this case, it is 100% clear that the defendant acted in self-defense.
00:07:34.000 Not 70%, not 80%, not 90%, 100%.
00:07:36.000 We have it on tape.
00:07:39.000 But again, the prosecution can't let go of it.
00:07:41.000 And it is a dangerous situation when the media turns something into a national issue and then prosecutors feel the necessity to bring a case because of national pressure.
00:07:49.000 That is indeed akin to mob justice.
00:07:53.000 It's just done by using the prosecutor as the tool of the mob.
00:07:57.000 If a mob arrives at a jail to hang somebody, and they make the sheriff their tool, that doesn't make it any less of a mob.
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00:09:16.000 Okay, so, let's go through the Kyle Rittenhouse timeline here because you can see, by the way, how the media made this part of a broader narrative and why it became a national story.
00:09:24.000 So here's the New York Times timeline leading up to Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:09:27.000 They begin with the killing of George Floyd.
00:09:29.000 Now you might say to yourself, what the hell does Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself have to do with George Floyd?
00:09:34.000 That's a completely separate criminal trial involving Derek Chauvin.
00:09:37.000 By the way, another criminal trial where I truly believe that national media sentiment played a massive role in how that trial was performed and how the verdict came down.
00:09:46.000 I do not believe that the evidence in even the Derek Chauvin trial was sufficient to support the finding of the jury.
00:09:52.000 But put that aside, one trial really has nothing to do with the other.
00:09:55.000 And George Floyd has nothing to do with the shootings of Anthony Huber or Jacob Rosenbaum or Joseph Rosenbaum or any of the other characters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:10:06.000 But the New York Times starts its story, of course, with George Floyd, because this is all part of the protest story.
00:10:11.000 Okay, then they move forward to August 23rd, 2020.
00:10:14.000 And this is what led things off in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:10:17.000 So, there's a guy named Jacob Blake.
00:10:19.000 Jacob Blake was a black resident who, according to the New York Times, was shot and seriously wounded by a white police officer.
00:10:26.000 Now, the question is, why was he there?
00:10:28.000 The reason that the police officer was there is he was called there by Jacob Blake's ex-girlfriend.
00:10:33.000 And Jacob Blake's ex-girlfriend had called the cops because he showed up at the door.
00:10:37.000 He was not supposed to.
00:10:38.000 There was a restraining order against him.
00:10:40.000 She had previously reported alleged rape against Jacob Blake.
00:10:44.000 So the police show up, and they try to take him into custody on an outstanding warrant issued in July on charges of third-degree sexual assault, criminal trespass, and disorderly conduct.
00:10:54.000 Blake fights the cops, and then he has a knife.
00:10:57.000 And they tell him to put down the knife, repeatedly.
00:11:00.000 And then he doesn't, so they shoot him.
00:11:02.000 Here's tape of that particular incident.
00:11:04.000 Right, this is the story and people are shouting and screaming.
00:11:23.000 Okay, so here's the thing.
00:11:25.000 The media immediately covered this as another wrongful shoot because the media were in search of the narrative.
00:11:30.000 The narrative was police everywhere are racist and horrible because America is racist and horrible.
00:11:35.000 And so anytime there's a shooting of a black man by a white police officer, this is evidence of systemic racism.
00:11:40.000 Now, again, even if you go back to George Floyd, there's not a single allegation that was made anywhere in the trial.
00:11:45.000 There's not a single piece of evidence to suggest that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd because Derek Chauvin is a racist.
00:11:51.000 That just does not exist.
00:11:51.000 That was not even alleged in the trial.
00:11:54.000 And yet it became the predicate for the broader claim that America is racist.
00:11:57.000 And then that broader claim was used in order to characterize the Jacob Blake shooting.
00:12:01.000 And it was a bad, it was a bad example because Jacob Blake was a criminal who refused to comply with police commands and was carrying a weapon at the time.
00:12:09.000 That is what they call in police parlance a good shoot.
00:12:12.000 It did not matter.
00:12:13.000 The media decided to treat it as though it was a bad racist shoot and indicative of the broad level of suspicion and racism that black Americans live under thanks to the predations of American police officers each and every day.
00:12:25.000 And this resulted, of course, in Kenosha burning.
00:12:28.000 This is where you saw the famous video of members of the press standing outside burning buildings talking about how it was all mostly peaceful.
00:12:35.000 Here's some of the video from Kenosha.
00:12:37.000 You can see cars being set on fire, people wandering the streets in the middle of the night, videoing it.
00:12:45.000 It's just good times all over in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:12:47.000 OK, so these burnings continue and Kyle Rittenhouse shows up.
00:12:54.000 OK, so the protesters began August 24th.
00:12:57.000 They say protesters, but what we mean really is rioters.
00:13:00.000 Rioters started setting fire to cars, looting and burning buildings and knocking over street lamps.
00:13:06.000 Okay, and Kyle Rittenhouse shows up on August 25th.
00:13:10.000 And we have video of exactly why Kyle Rittenhouse was there.
00:13:12.000 Okay, Contra, the prosecution's claim that he was there to shoot people, Kyle Rittenhouse explained.
00:13:17.000 Again, this is before the shooting.
00:13:19.000 Richie McGinnis was the reporter on scene asking Rittenhouse why he was there.
00:13:23.000 This is before the shootings occurred.
00:13:25.000 And here is Kyle Rittenhouse explaining.
00:13:28.000 People are getting injured, and our job is to protect this business, and part of my job is to also help people.
00:13:34.000 If there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way.
00:13:36.000 That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself, obviously.
00:13:39.000 I also have my med kit.
00:13:41.000 We're protecting from the citizens, and I just got pepper sprayed by a person in the crowd.
00:13:46.000 So you had non-lethal, but you didn't respond?
00:13:50.000 We don't have non-lethal.
00:13:52.000 So you guys are full on ready to defend the property?
00:13:55.000 Yes, we are.
00:13:56.000 Now, if I can ask, can you guys step back?
00:13:58.000 AMF right here!
00:13:58.000 Medical!
00:14:02.000 Okay, so he was pepper sprayed, didn't shoot anybody.
00:14:05.000 He's asked, are you there to defend the property?
00:14:07.000 He says yes.
00:14:08.000 Because the prosecution tries to make it out that he's going to shoot anybody who threatens the property.
00:14:12.000 But he literally says in the prior sentence that if somebody threatens him with non-lethal force, he can't shoot them.
00:14:18.000 He immediately says that.
00:14:18.000 Right?
00:14:20.000 And so this is all the predicate to the actual events of that night.
00:14:23.000 And the reason we're going through this in detail is to demonstrate how this didn't fit into the media narrative, but he had to be prosecuted anyway because the narrative matters more than anything else.
00:14:30.000 This is why when people say that the media lying, well, what difference does it make?
00:14:34.000 What difference does it make if we just create these broad narratives from false circumstances?
00:14:39.000 The answer is it makes a hell of a lot of difference for individuals like Kyle Rittenhouse who ends up wrongfully wrangled into a legal trial for his life.
00:14:47.000 Based on non-existent evidence.
00:14:49.000 Because the narrative matters more than the actual evidence.
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00:15:57.000 Alrighty, so all of this leads up to the actual shooting.
00:16:01.000 So the night of the shooting, there's a fire and There are many fires in the city, and in the middle of the fires, Rittenhouse runs over to the fire.
00:16:11.000 And on the way, he's confronted by Rosenbaum, Joseph Rosenbaum.
00:16:14.000 Joseph Rosenbaum is a career criminal.
00:16:16.000 He's a child molester.
00:16:18.000 He's a convicted child molester.
00:16:20.000 And Joseph Rosenbaum is acting crazy all night long.
00:16:23.000 According to witness testimony, he literally said, if I find you alone, I will kill you to Rittenhouse earlier in the evening.
00:16:29.000 So this is not a guy who is out there doing good.
00:16:32.000 He was a crazy person and a dangerous person.
00:16:35.000 He was swinging chains.
00:16:36.000 He was lighting things on fire.
00:16:38.000 He was using the N-word.
00:16:39.000 So the only person in this trial, by the way, who there's any evidence was a racist, is actually Joseph Rosenbaum.
00:16:45.000 And then there's a confrontation where Rosenbaum apparently accosts Rittenhouse.
00:16:50.000 And Rittenhouse, seeking to avoid the conflict, even though he's the guy with the gun, starts to run away.
00:16:55.000 He's running away.
00:16:56.000 Another man starts chasing him.
00:16:59.000 And that man fires into the air.
00:17:02.000 A man who police identified as Rittenhouse runs across the parking lot of an auto service shop, followed by a shirtless man who was later identified as Joseph Rosenbaum.
00:17:07.000 And so he shoots him.
00:17:08.000 That is what this video footage demonstrates.
00:17:11.000 And again, it is about as clear cut as video footage is going to get.
00:17:14.000 It is pretty rare that you have contemporaneous video in a circumstance like this, but you do.
00:17:18.000 A man who police identified as Rittenhouse runs across the parking lot of an auto service shop, followed by a shirtless man who was later identified as Joseph Rosenbaum.
00:17:28.000 Moments later, shots ring out.
00:17:36.000 So he's calling the police?
00:17:37.000 man falls to the ground. A figure who appears to be Rittenhouse continues running.
00:17:41.000 Seconds later, he comes back into view and bystanders arrive to help the victim.
00:17:46.000 Rittenhouse can be seen standing by the body, making a phone call.
00:17:51.000 As more people arrive, he runs away out of frame and someone seems to be heard saying, I shot somebody.
00:17:59.000 So he's calling the police. He's calling for medical help and he's calling the police.
00:18:05.000 And the reason he starts running away is because other Antifa rioters start showing up and he thinks to himself, OK, they're going to attack me, which is exactly what happens.
00:18:13.000 They start chasing him.
00:18:15.000 OK, so the next video you'll see is Rittenhouse running down the street and and falling down as he's running.
00:18:20.000 And then he's attacked by several people.
00:18:23.000 One of whom he does not shoot.
00:18:24.000 He just sort of brandishes his weapon at the person who's trying to attack him.
00:18:27.000 A second person, Anthony Huber, will attack him with a skateboard and he will shoot him.
00:18:30.000 And Anthony Huber will be shot dead.
00:18:32.000 And then, a third person, Gage Grosskreutz, will run up to him, unholster his weapon, start raising the weapon at Kyle Rittenhouse, and Rittenhouse will shoot him.
00:18:41.000 That's what this video shows.
00:18:43.000 You're suspectable!
00:18:45.000 Get him out of the car!
00:18:47.000 Get him out of the car!
00:18:49.000 No!
00:18:59.000 Okay, and then Rittenhouse gets up and he starts walking toward the police.
00:19:05.000 And toward safety.
00:19:07.000 So, that's the case.
00:19:09.000 And it's not as though this is wildly unclear.
00:19:11.000 Gage Grosskreutz was one of the people who was shot, right?
00:19:13.000 He was shot in the bicep.
00:19:15.000 And the original story is that he was shot, but the prosecution suggested that he was shot because he was just kind of standing there, right?
00:19:22.000 That his gun had fallen out of his pocket or something.
00:19:24.000 He lied to the cops.
00:19:25.000 He told the cops the reason that his gun was out is because it had fallen out of its holster.
00:19:29.000 It's not true.
00:19:30.000 We have video evidence it's not true.
00:19:32.000 Here's Gage Grosskreutz admitting on the stand, on the stand, that he had unholstered his gun and was trying to point the gun at Rittenhouse when Rittenhouse shot him.
00:19:41.000 That is like point-blank a case of self-defense.
00:19:45.000 It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun, now your hands down, pointed at him, that he fired, right?
00:19:58.000 Correct.
00:19:59.000 And if you continue that clip, what you will see is the prosecutors with their face in their hands.
00:20:02.000 Because they realize their entire case is a big nothing.
00:20:05.000 It is a big nothing.
00:20:06.000 And so the media had to look for some alternative rationale for why this case had collapsed.
00:20:10.000 They tried to blame Rittenhouse for crying on the stand.
00:20:12.000 Rittenhouse got up, his lawyer was asking him questions about what happened that night, and Rittenhouse had a bit of a panic attack on the stand.
00:20:18.000 Once I take that step back, I look over my shoulder and Mr. Rosenbaum Mr. Rosenbaum was now running from my right side.
00:20:33.000 And I was cornered from in front of me with Mr. Zeminski.
00:20:41.000 and there were there were three people right there okay naturally the media treated this as evidence of his guilt not evidence of his innocence All right, so that brings us to the closing argument.
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00:22:10.000 Alrighty, so closing arguments happened yesterday.
00:22:15.000 This is preceded by the judge in the case dropping the the.
00:22:21.000 Charge, the gun charge, against Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:22:25.000 According to ABC News, Rittenhouse was 17 when he shot three people, killing two with a semi-automatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a protest against police brutality last year.
00:22:33.000 I love how they characterized that.
00:22:35.000 Not a bunch of people running around rioting.
00:22:37.000 It was just a protest against police brutality.
00:22:39.000 Prosecutors brought multiple charges against him, including first-degree intentional homicide, attempted homicide, reckless endangerment, and the firearm possession count.
00:22:47.000 With legal experts saying prosecutors struggled to counter the Illinois man's claims of self-defense, the best bet for a conviction looked like the gun charge.
00:22:53.000 But Rittenhouse defense team dug up an exception to the prohibition.
00:22:56.000 Judge Bruce Schrader dismissed the count Monday, just hours before the jurors got the case.
00:23:01.000 Under Wisconsin law, anyone under 18 who possesses a dangerous weapon is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months behind bars.
00:23:09.000 On its face, convicting Rittenhouse on that count looked like a legal slam dunk because he was 17 years old and obviously had the rifle strapped to his chest before the shooting.
00:23:16.000 But Rittenhouse's attorney seized on a subsection of Wisconsin law that states the ban on minors possessing dangerous weapons applies to minors armed with rifles or shotguns only if those weapons are short-barreled.
00:23:27.000 That language stems from a bill then-Republican Governor Tommy Thompson signed in 1991.
00:23:32.000 Lawmakers were trying to find ways to curb gang violence around that time.
00:23:36.000 The goal was to prevent youths from carrying sawed-off shotguns.
00:23:41.000 The AR-15 was not short-barreled.
00:23:44.000 They asked Schrader to dismiss the possession counts on those grounds at a pretrial hearing in October.
00:23:49.000 The judge refused to toss the charge at that point.
00:23:52.000 And then he did toss the charge.
00:23:55.000 Because, again, the law is pretty specific.
00:23:58.000 I mean, the law says that you're not allowed to carry a short-barreled shotgun or a short-barreled rifle.
00:24:04.000 But it does not include these.
00:24:06.000 I mean, if you draw the law that way, that is what the law is.
00:24:10.000 So that charge was ruled out by the judge immediately.
00:24:13.000 So basically, you are now down to the reckless endangerment charge.
00:24:15.000 Reckless endangerment would be essentially shooting a gun in a crowded place, knowing that it might hit somebody.
00:24:21.000 But that is going to be obviated by self-defense in this particular case, legally speaking.
00:24:25.000 So the prosecution has nothing.
00:24:27.000 And they really demonstrated that they had nothing yesterday.
00:24:30.000 It was a bad closing argument for the prosecution.
00:24:33.000 So the prosecutor, the chief prosecutor here is a guy named Thomas Binger.
00:24:36.000 Binger made a mockery of himself throughout this trial.
00:24:38.000 I mean, so much so that earlier in the trial, the judge reamed Binger for being bad at his job.
00:24:47.000 Binger literally, I mean, he almost attempted to get a mistrial declared through his own activity.
00:24:53.000 And he realized things were going so badly that it's almost hard to read this as anything except for him attempting to get a mistrial.
00:24:58.000 He suggested in open court that Rittenhouse not talking to the cops was an admission of guilt, which has not been the case pretty much ever in common law and certainly has not been the case in American case law for something like 40 or 50 years.
00:25:10.000 Here was the judge reaming Binger earlier in the trial.
00:25:14.000 You are already, you were, I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest silence.
00:25:25.000 That's basic law, it's been basic law in this country for 40 years, 50 years.
00:25:30.000 I have no idea why you would do something like that.
00:25:32.000 I said I had heard nothing in this trial to change any of my rulings.
00:25:36.000 That was before the testimony, Your Honor.
00:25:38.000 Pardon me?
00:25:38.000 That was before the testimony.
00:25:40.000 Don't get brazen with me.
00:25:41.000 You're an experienced trial attorney and you're telling me that when the judge says, I'm excluding this, you just to take it upon yourself to put it in because you think that you've found a way around it?
00:25:52.000 Come on!
00:25:54.000 Okay, so, it was a rough road for the prosecutors here.
00:25:58.000 And they just demonstrated, again, I don't know where they got their law degrees.
00:26:01.000 Binger, I think, went to the University of Michigan Law School, which really does not speak highly of University of Michigan, for sure.
00:26:07.000 Okay, so yesterday, he just made a mockery of himself.
00:26:10.000 It was truly a terrible closing argument.
00:26:13.000 He began by saying something just patently false, which is, if you bring a gun to a situation, and then somebody attacks you, and you shoot them, this means that you do not have the defense of self-defense available to you.
00:26:23.000 That's not true in any way, shape, or form.
00:26:26.000 If I bring a gun to an area where I'm legally allowed to bring a gun, even if I bring a gun to an area where I'm not legally allowed to bring a gun, you might get me on a gun charge, but if somebody attacks me with a knife and I shoot them, that is still self-defense.
00:26:38.000 If somebody attacks me without a knife and I shoot them, that is still self-defense, depending on if I am in legitimate and reasonable fear for my life.
00:26:45.000 Here is Binger just completely botching the law.
00:26:47.000 Again, did he send like Cracker Jack box tops into the bar association to get a law degree?
00:26:53.000 I don't understand how this guy is even practicing.
00:26:57.000 And one of the things to keep in mind is that when the defendant provokes the incident, he loses the right to self-defense.
00:27:05.000 You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create.
00:27:11.000 That's critical, right here.
00:27:12.000 The defendant decided to pull the trigger on his AR-15 four times.
00:27:19.000 That was his decision.
00:27:21.000 And he is responsible for every bullet that comes out of that gun.
00:27:27.000 So, it is true that if you provoke a confrontation, you cannot then use self-defense.
00:27:32.000 That part is true.
00:27:33.000 But he literally said, this is a direct quote, you lose the right to self-defense when you're the one who brought the gun.
00:27:40.000 Nope!
00:27:41.000 False.
00:27:43.000 Actively false.
00:27:44.000 So, the prosecution's case relies on the idea that Rittenhouse started a fight essentially with Joseph Rosenbaum, and that everything that thereupon followed was Rittenhouse's fault.
00:27:52.000 But there's no evidence that that's the case.
00:27:56.000 And so instead, you see the prosecutor making just, I mean, Binger was just, it was bizarre.
00:28:01.000 Here he was defending Joseph Rosenbaum.
00:28:03.000 Joseph Rosenbaum spent the evening being totally insane.
00:28:07.000 Spent the evening burning things, threatening people with chains, literally saying, according to witness testimony, that he would kill Rittenhouse if he found him alone.
00:28:14.000 He just happens to stumble into it.
00:28:16.000 to prosecute Rittenhouse is to pretend that Joseph Rosenbaum was actually like a wonderful dude. So here he is clip 14 explaining that Joseph Rosenbaum really didn't do anything that night. He's just, you know, a non-threatening kind of silly, idiot little guy who really, you know, there was nothing to fear from Joseph Rosenbaum while he was like threatening people with chains and burning cars and such.
00:28:39.000 He just happens to stumble into it. So what does he do that night? Oh, let me tell you all the awful things Joseph Rosenbom did.
00:28:47.000 He tipped over a port-a-potty that had no one in it.
00:28:51.000 He swung a chain.
00:28:53.000 He lit a metal garbage dumpster on fire.
00:28:59.000 Oh, and there's this empty wooden flatbed trailer that they pulled out in the middle of the road and they tipped it over to stop some bearcats and they lit it on fire.
00:29:09.000 Oh, and he said some bad words.
00:29:10.000 He said the N-word.
00:29:14.000 What the hell is wrong with this guy?
00:29:16.000 Like really, I don't know what's wrong with him.
00:29:18.000 And by the way, all of the offenses that he mentions before the N-word offense, which by the way, according to the media, is the gravest defense in American public life.
00:29:24.000 If you use the N-word, we bar you from public society.
00:29:26.000 We basically brand you and say that you are no longer allowed to participate in public society in America.
00:29:31.000 He's like, well, he said the N-word.
00:29:35.000 But also, like, all the other stuff that you're saying is criminal.
00:29:37.000 Okay?
00:29:38.000 It's actual criminal activity.
00:29:39.000 It's like, so he was rioting.
00:29:40.000 So he was burning things.
00:29:42.000 So he was setting up barricades to prevent the cops from getting in.
00:29:44.000 So he's doing—I mean, was that that big a deal?
00:29:46.000 Like, he seems like a nice guy.
00:29:48.000 Was he just—I mean, it's like a bad night.
00:29:49.000 How many times have you just been walking down the street and you saw a metal dumpster on fire tipped over a porta potty, started waving around chains, shouting the N-word, and tried to block the cops from coming?
00:29:57.000 Happens all the time.
00:29:58.000 Happens all the time.
00:30:00.000 That's the prosecutor.
00:30:01.000 Remember, prosecutors are supposed to be angry at people for violating the law.
00:30:05.000 That's kind of their job.
00:30:06.000 It's like, well, his violations of law are no big deal.
00:30:08.000 And then he goes even further.
00:30:09.000 He suggests that this is a mob of heroes.
00:30:12.000 Did that look like a mob of heroes to you?
00:30:12.000 Now you watch the tape.
00:30:14.000 The people chasing Kyle Rittenhouse?
00:30:16.000 Did that look like a group of people out for justice that evening?
00:30:19.000 Or did that look like a bunch of people who are out to make trouble and burn things and create violence and havoc?
00:30:26.000 And did it look like they were chasing down Kyle Rittenhouse to beat the living hell out of him?
00:30:29.000 Like before the shooting.
00:30:30.000 Remember, he's being chased by Rosenbaum and other people before he shoots anyone.
00:30:36.000 Literally for not doing anything.
00:30:38.000 So here is the prosecutor trying to make the case that this is a group of heroes.
00:30:42.000 Who are you going to believe?
00:30:43.000 The narrative or your own eyes?
00:30:45.000 We've had several police officers testify that in an active shooter situation, their first instinct, their first training is to go in and stop the threat.
00:30:54.000 They don't sit there and wonder, well, maybe it was self-defense.
00:30:57.000 I don't know.
00:30:58.000 I'm gonna, you know, wait and see.
00:30:59.000 And every day we read about heroes that stop active shooters.
00:31:07.000 That's what was going on here.
00:31:09.000 And that crowd was right.
00:31:12.000 And that crowd was full of heroes.
00:31:17.000 That crowd was full of heroes?
00:31:20.000 The actual F?
00:31:22.000 What in the world?
00:31:24.000 It gets worse from here, by the way.
00:31:25.000 Binger decided it'd be a great idea to point a gun at, like, the entire room.
00:31:30.000 So, number one, he's violating pretty much every standard of gun safety right now.
00:31:35.000 Like, there are pictures of Rittenhouse walking around in the middle of the riots and obeying the basic rules of gun safety, like, don't have your finger inside the trigger guard.
00:31:43.000 Here's Binger with a— I mean, it's like Alec Baldwin over here.
00:31:47.000 He's pointing an actual AR-15-style weapon at the jury.
00:31:53.000 Because guns are scary, guys.
00:31:54.000 And if Kyle Rittenhouse had a gun, and guns are scary, that means he's guilty in some way.
00:31:57.000 And he's got his finger inside the trigger guard!
00:32:00.000 Like, what?
00:32:03.000 I'm sorry, this guy's a mockery.
00:32:05.000 And then his deputy shows up.
00:32:08.000 His deputy prosecutor is a guy named James Krause.
00:32:10.000 And honest to God, if this guy Binger got his law degree from the University of Cracker Jack boxes, then James Krause, the ADA, apparently got his degree from a Special K mail-in game.
00:32:23.000 Because, my God, he then makes the case that Rittenhouse should have fought these people with his fists.
00:32:29.000 He says that if somebody attacks you with their fist, they're obviously not going to do anything deadly to you, so you're a coward if you shoot them.
00:32:34.000 If they're trying to beat the hell out of you with a skateboard.
00:32:37.000 You have to take the beating.
00:32:40.000 Clearly, if there is provocation, he's guilty.
00:32:43.000 But even outside of provocation, why do you get to immediately just start shooting?
00:32:52.000 As Mr. Binger said, he brought a gun to a fist fight.
00:32:57.000 And he was too cowardly to use his own fist to fight his way out.
00:33:02.000 Okay, so a few things.
00:33:03.000 I noticed that he brought a gun to a gunfight considering that Gage Rose was showing up with a gun.
00:33:08.000 Also, he brought a gun to a being smashed in the face with a skateboard fight.
00:33:14.000 Also, he brought a gun to a somebody grabbing for his gunfight.
00:33:19.000 Since when in American law is the rule that if somebody threatens your life with not a gun, you are not allowed to use a gun to protect your own life?
00:33:19.000 I have a question.
00:33:26.000 When is that the rule in American law, ever?
00:33:29.000 It was a real bad day for the prosecution.
00:33:32.000 The defense, by contrast, had a pretty easy day because all they had to point out is the obvious.
00:33:36.000 This is a political case.
00:33:37.000 Here's the defense attorney, Mark Richards, making the point that this is a political case, which it clearly was.
00:33:41.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is a political case.
00:33:47.000 We can take politics out of it as a Democrat and Republican.
00:33:51.000 But the district attorney's office is marching forward with this case because they need somebody to be responsible.
00:33:59.000 They need somebody to put and say, we did it.
00:34:04.000 He's the person who brought terror to Kenosha.
00:34:07.000 Kyle Rittenhouse is not that individual.
00:34:10.000 The rioters, the demonstrators who turned into rioters, those are the individuals who bring us forth.
00:34:21.000 That is correct.
00:34:22.000 And then Richard says, very controversially, that he's glad he shot Joseph Rosenbaum.
00:34:26.000 Well, I mean, I don't know about being glad that anybody got shot, but if somebody's grabbing for a gun and they get shot, that is the predictable result of grabbing for somebody's gun.
00:34:36.000 Kyle shot Joseph Rosenbaum to stop a threat to his person.
00:34:41.000 And I'm glad he shot him, because if Joseph Rosenbaum had got that gun, I don't for a minute believe he wouldn't have used it against somebody else.
00:34:49.000 He was irrational and crazy.
00:34:55.000 And not just that, Richards then says that it's impossible.
00:34:59.000 Binger had said it was impossible for Rosenbaum to have threatened Rittenhouse.
00:35:02.000 That's, of course, untrue.
00:35:03.000 And Richards points that out.
00:35:06.000 We showed the video to start this.
00:35:09.000 Clearly depicting Mr. Rosenbaum standing there at Car Source 2 shortly after the dumpster.
00:35:16.000 Standing there with his chain, the shirt tied up over his head.
00:35:20.000 But Mr. Binger says it's impossible for him to have threatened my client.
00:35:24.000 That's garbage.
00:35:26.000 Just like his case.
00:35:29.000 Yep.
00:35:30.000 And then Richards concludes by saying that Binger apparently lives in fairy tale land because he's just making up stories.
00:35:36.000 This active shooter BS is something that Mr. Binger is trying to sell you people.
00:35:42.000 Has he shot anybody since Car Source 3?
00:35:45.000 No, he hasn't.
00:35:46.000 He's running to try and get to the police.
00:35:49.000 Mr. Binger must live in fairytale land to think that Kyle could stop, put his gun down, and say, hey, everything's good, leave me alone, I'm going to the police.
00:36:00.000 Unfortunately, that's not how the real world works.
00:36:07.000 Alrighty, so in just one second we'll get to the media's final take on this particular situation, because at a certain point you have to imagine that they want the riots.
00:36:16.000 Mischaracterizing the case as poorly as they have done throughout this case demonstrates they want something out of this, and apparently what they want is more violence and more unrest, because the narrative uber-alice, the only thing that matters is the narrative.
00:36:26.000 We'll get to that in just one moment.
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00:39:03.000 All righty, so as the jury considers what is going on right now, the media continue to press forward the notion that this is part of a broader world.
00:39:21.000 Racism narrative.
00:39:23.000 Article from the Washington Post today.
00:39:25.000 Again, it just seems like they want riots.
00:39:27.000 I don't know what else to say.
00:39:28.000 When you lie about the fact of the case in order to promote a narrative that ends with people doing violence because they say the system is corrupt.
00:39:35.000 I mean, honestly, this is the argument that the left made about Donald Trump in January 6th.
00:39:38.000 The argument that they made is that Donald Trump kept saying all the systems were corrupt.
00:39:41.000 If you say all the systems are corrupt and the election was stolen, people rebel against the system.
00:39:45.000 That's the argument that the left made about January 6th.
00:39:47.000 But they routinely make that argument about systemic racism in America.
00:39:51.000 Policing is corrupt.
00:39:52.000 The criminal justice system is corrupt.
00:39:54.000 Our politics are corrupt.
00:39:56.000 Capitalism is corrupt.
00:39:57.000 The systemic racism narrative is all about getting people to quote-unquote rebel against the system.
00:40:02.000 And apparently justified doing so in violent ways.
00:40:04.000 And so you have the Washington Post yesterday.
00:40:06.000 Here is the headline.
00:40:07.000 No matter the verdict.
00:40:08.000 It doesn't matter.
00:40:13.000 If Rittenhouse were even convicted, they would still say that justice is elusive.
00:40:19.000 Based on what?
00:40:20.000 Jacob Blake was correctly shot.
00:40:22.000 Legally, he was shot justifiably.
00:40:25.000 What is your evidence here?
00:40:27.000 And again, no one black was shot in the Rittenhouse case.
00:40:30.000 Every single person who was shot was white.
00:40:33.000 Still, the Washington Post presses forward with the narrative that this is all about race.
00:40:37.000 Quote, more than a year after his nephew was shot seven times by a police officer, paralyzing him from the waist down, Justin Blake takes to this city's broad courthouse steps each morning and makes his case for justice.
00:40:47.000 He wants Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen on trial here for murder after he brought an AR-15 to Kenosha amid the unrest that follows Blake's shooting, held to account.
00:40:54.000 He wants the families of the three men Rittenhouse shot too fatally to know that their pain matters.
00:40:59.000 But the thing he wants most will not come to be.
00:41:01.000 There will be no trial for the police officer who shot Jacob Blake.
00:41:04.000 Now, if you just read all that without knowing any of the facts that we've told you about over the course of this particular podcast and show, then you might think that this guy is saying things that are not crazy.
00:41:15.000 But everything he is saying is crazy.
00:41:18.000 And Rittenhouse is being tried.
00:41:20.000 He should not be tried because there is no evidence.
00:41:22.000 But he wants the families of the people shot to know that he feels their pain.
00:41:26.000 They were literally attacking the guy when they were shot.
00:41:29.000 He wants the police officer who shot Jacob Blake put on trial.
00:41:31.000 Jacob Blake was a criminal.
00:41:33.000 Jacob Blake was at his ex-girlfriend's house.
00:41:38.000 And there was a, again, there was a warrant out for his arrest because according to her, he had invaded her home and then digitally penetrated her without her consent.
00:41:46.000 That is called digital rape.
00:41:48.000 He had apparently performed that and then he showed up at the house again and she called the cops and the cops showed up and he resisted arrest and got shot for his trouble, which is usually what happens when you resist arrest with a weapon.
00:41:59.000 And yet the Washington Post says black residents want justice.
00:42:02.000 Do they, though?
00:42:03.000 Because if people wanted justice, if this guy wanted justice, he would understand that justice would involve not trying the police officer who did the right thing in shooting Jacob Blake.
00:42:12.000 Justin Blake had tears welling in his eyes as an icy wind rose off the nearby lakefront.
00:42:17.000 I always love when the reporters start describing in transcendental fashion the weather.
00:42:21.000 It's like, and then the rain began to pour down on his upturned face.
00:42:24.000 It's like a bad movie.
00:42:26.000 They took something from a young man we can never replace, and he hasn't had his day in court.
00:42:30.000 I'm mad as hell, said Justin Black.
00:42:32.000 Well, considering that one thing that that young man took was, you know, the consent of a woman and just allegedly raped her digitally, and then Threatened a police officer.
00:42:43.000 I'm gonna go with the person who was the villain in that particular case is your nephew.
00:42:46.000 I mean, by the way, it is an unbelievable thing how the entire media jumped to the defense of Jacob Blake in the middle of that.
00:42:52.000 I mean, Joe Biden called the family.
00:42:55.000 Kamala Harris went and visited.
00:42:56.000 It was insane.
00:42:57.000 It was insane.
00:42:59.000 So many are among Kenosha's Black community, even though few have joined Justin Blake's often lonely vigil.
00:43:04.000 Their absence from the courthouse steps, community leaders say, should not be confused with satisfaction about how things have gone in the city.
00:43:10.000 They've just tried to channel their discontent in other ways.
00:43:13.000 The shooting of Blake, according to the Washington Post, a now 30-year-old Black man, set off mass protests for racial justice here in August 2020 and added to an already febrile moment in cities nationwide following the murder of George Floyd.
00:43:24.000 It also led to looting, burning, and upheaval that culminated in the Rittenhouse shootings.
00:43:28.000 Well, it didn't just lead to looting, burning, I mean, just as a side effect.
00:43:31.000 Nope, that was the effect.
00:43:34.000 It was not a mass protest for racial... When you burn a car lot, that's not a protest for racial justice.
00:43:38.000 And by the way, it's not a protest for racial justice when you are suggesting that the cops are racist for shooting an alleged rapist who's resisting arrest.
00:43:47.000 But the media want their day.
00:43:48.000 I don't understand.
00:43:53.000 I'm loathe, honestly, I'm loathe to credit people with malice where stupidity would serve, but this is malicious.
00:44:00.000 When you start publishing articles about how black residents of Kenosha look at the Rittenhouse trial and think that racial justice is not being done, I don't know how to, given the facts that we now know and are available to everyone, I do not know how that is not malice by the media.
00:44:13.000 I can no longer attribute it to stupidity.
00:44:15.000 I would prefer to attribute it to stupidity.
00:44:17.000 I can no longer do that.
00:44:17.000 This is now malice.
00:44:20.000 According to the Washington Post, as a verdict nears in Rittenhouse's trial, there's widespread frustration that the original source of that strife remains unaddressed.
00:44:27.000 Attempts in the city to confront systemic racism and police brutality have, residents say, proved underwhelming.
00:44:33.000 Meanwhile, the trial that brought the national spotlight back to Kenosha is that of a white man who shot three other white men, even as the officer who shot Blake, Rustin Shusky, has been cleared of charges and resumed, serving on the force.
00:44:44.000 It's evidence of an unjust, unfair system, said Alvin Owens, a Black community leader and business owner.
00:44:48.000 This is something Black America sees all the time.
00:44:50.000 But white Kenosha, white Wisconsin, white America don't get it.
00:44:53.000 They don't know what Black America experiences.
00:44:56.000 For a brief while, says the Washington Post, in the summer of 2020, as Americans of all races took to the streets to proclaim that Black Lives Matter, Owens thought that was poised to change in Kenosha.
00:45:05.000 He helped organize protests.
00:45:06.000 But, he says, that awareness came and left.
00:45:08.000 It was a squandered opportunity.
00:45:11.000 Again, the narrative must be preserved at the expense of the facts.
00:45:13.000 And if a few individuals who are not guilty have to pay the price, whether it's the cop in the Jacob Blake shooting, or whether it's Kyle Rittenhouse, the left doesn't care.
00:45:20.000 They are just obstacles.
00:45:21.000 They are speed bumps on the road to utopia.
00:45:23.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:45:26.000 In the meantime, go check out The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:46:01.000 The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse comes to a close, though not before the prosecutor can embarrass himself even more.
00:46:06.000 Kamala Harris' allies accuse Joe Biden of racism, and two-time loser Democrat candidate Beto O'Rourke throws his hat in the ring for Texas governor.