The Charlie Kirk Show - Kyle Rittenhouse Takes the Stand—LIVE Reaction

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00:00:01.000 Happening right now is the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

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00:00:05.000 Kyle Rittenhouse taking the stand in his own defense is a very strange development.

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00:01:53.000 We are covering the Rittenhouse drama in real time.

00:01:55.000 I did not plan at all to get to this.

00:01:57.000 I have a whole stack of papers to get to.

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00:02:18.000 I mean, we got a lot of stories to get to, but I want to recap the Rittenhouse stuff happening in real time because look, this Rittenhouse situation is a lot bigger than just Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:02:28.000 Now, why Kyle Rittenhouse decided to testify, I might be proven wrong here.

00:02:32.000 I'm by no means a legal expert, but I know that it's usually not wise to take the stand in your own defense.

00:02:38.000 Now, maybe it will humanize him.

00:02:40.000 Maybe it will give the jury some ability to have compassion and sympathize with him.

00:02:47.000 Not exactly sure the wisdom behind it because it seems that despite Kyle doing his best, the prosecution has been so incredibly unfair.

00:02:56.000 Now, with that being said, let's go into some cuts here of the judge just laying it out.

00:03:07.000 But first, let's frame the reality of what's happening in Wisconsin.

00:03:12.000 Cut 32, George Floyd's nephew, is openly threatening jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse case.

00:03:20.000 That's right.

00:03:21.000 George Floyd's nephew is openly threatening jurors that might not give them the verdict they want.

00:03:28.000 So this is the way things work in America now.

00:03:30.000 Judge the way, rule the way we want, or we're going to burn your city down. 0.95

00:03:34.000 Put young white men who defend themselves in prison, or else we're going to destroy all the Wendy's in your local area. 0.97

00:03:41.000 Play Cut 32. 0.93

00:03:43.000 I ain't even going to name the people that I know that's up in there in the Kenosha.

00:03:46.000 I mean, in the Kenosha trial, but there's cameras in there.

00:03:49.000 It's definitely cameras up in there, and there's definitely people taking pictures of the juries and everything like that.

00:03:53.000 We know what's going on.

00:03:55.000 So we need the same results, man.

00:03:56.000 We need the same results.

00:03:58.000 Justice for Dante Wright, justice for Austell.

00:04:01.000 Oh, we need the same results.

00:04:02.000 We have cameras of the jury.

00:04:03.000 That is illegal what he is doing.

00:04:05.000 Yet the Department of Justice is too busy trying to go find a diary that belonged to Biden's daughter.

00:04:11.000 While you have George Floyd's nephew, may he rest in peace always, St. George Floyd.

00:04:16.000 May his memory always be a blessing.

00:04:18.000 It's ridiculous how we have to put up with this charade for a couple years.

00:04:22.000 And meanwhile, his nephew is threatening jurors in Kenosha.

00:04:28.000 What I want to just say, though, that there is an unexpected hero, and that is the judge, Bruce Schroeder.

00:04:36.000 He is a true Wisconsinite, and he is pushing back against this aggressive prosecution that is unfairly trying to frame the case into something that it isn't.

00:04:49.000 So let's go one by one.

00:04:51.000 Let's go to 78.

00:04:54.000 The judge is scolding the prosecution.

00:04:56.000 By the way, where were judges like this standing up against election fraud?

00:05:01.000 Where were judges like this standing up against the balloting issues?

00:05:05.000 Where were judges like this standing up against any of the abuses of power we've seen?

00:05:11.000 Where are the judges like this that stood up against the FISA warrant application to spy on Donald Trump?

00:05:17.000 This is how judges are supposed to work when the prosecution acts reckless and ballistic.

00:05:23.000 Play cut 78.

00:05:26.000 Why would you think that that made it okay for you without any advance notice to bring this matter before the jury?

00:05:34.000 You are already, you were, I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest silence.

00:05:44.000 That's basic law.

00:05:46.000 It's been basic law in this country for 40 years, 50 years.

00:05:49.000 I have no idea why you would do something like that.

00:05:52.000 And it gives, well, I'll leave it at that.

00:05:57.000 So I don't know what you're up to.

00:05:59.000 Then cut 80.

00:06:03.000 The judge continues by saying, the prosecution, this is not permitted.

00:06:08.000 This judge is how every judge in the country needs to be about standing up for the rule of law, standing up for due process, standing up for the Constitution.

00:06:17.000 Play cut 80.

00:06:19.000 To what has already been introduced.

00:06:21.000 The problem is, this is a grave constitutional violation for you to talk about the defendants' silence.

00:06:31.000 And that is, and you're right.

00:06:36.000 You're right on the borderline.

00:06:38.000 And you may be over, but it better stop.

00:06:43.000 Understood.

00:06:45.000 This is.

00:06:48.000 I can't think of the case, the initial case on it, but this is not permitted.

00:06:53.000 All right.

00:06:55.000 Let me ask the jury to come in, please.

00:06:56.000 This judge dismissed the jury twice to scold the prosecution for crossing constitutional barriers and limits regarding Kyle Rittenhouse's waiving of his Fifth Amendment rights and also the line of questioning and not submitting basically the topics or the subjects that he was going to cross-examine Kyle Rittenhouse with.

00:07:21.000 So let's play some of Kyle Rittenhouse's testimony.

00:07:23.000 So Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand.

00:07:25.000 That is a huge risk.

00:07:27.000 Now, the only I could see positive wrinkle.

00:07:31.000 I think Kyle's doing fine.

00:07:33.000 He's a young guy, okay?

00:07:35.000 He's a young man, and that is a tough situation. 1.00

00:07:38.000 He knows he's on national TV being grilled by this jerk. 0.99

00:07:42.000 But the only positive, remember, it doesn't matter necessarily how well you answer every question. 0.99

00:07:49.000 What matters is can you win over one juror?

00:07:52.000 And I think, again, I'm not saying this is wise, but I think, actually, I should think deeply about that.

00:08:02.000 Because I'm constantly struggling.

00:08:04.000 The defense's bet.

00:08:05.000 Let me just do this.

00:08:06.000 The defense's bet is that in today's America, this decision, this case was not going to be decided on technical law.

00:08:16.000 That instead, they need to win over one juror that says they don't want to put the young man, Kyle Rittenhouse, who is largely clueless around types of ammo and places and locations in jail.

00:08:27.000 I believe that was the defense's thinking.

00:08:30.000 Kyle Rittenhouse explains Cut 70.

00:08:35.000 He breaks down when he is recounting how he got cornered by three men while trying to flee the conflict.

00:08:40.000 I think that him crying is going to help him.

00:08:44.000 I think the jury is going to see that.

00:08:46.000 They say, this is not a murderer.

00:08:46.000 They saw that.

00:08:49.000 This is a kid who defended himself.

00:08:51.000 Play Cut 70.

00:08:53.000 Once I take that step back, I look over my shoulder and Mr. Rosenbaum, Mr. Rosenbaum, was now running from my right side.

00:09:08.000 And I was cornered from in front of me with Mr. Zaminsky.

00:09:17.000 And there were people right there.

00:09:33.000 That is classic signs of PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.

00:09:38.000 That's not how a murderer talks.

00:09:41.000 I don't think O.J. Simpson testified in his trial.

00:09:44.000 I'm not saying O.J. did it, but come on.

00:09:46.000 We all know what really happened here.

00:09:47.000 Dershowitz got him off.

00:09:49.000 So did Kardashian.

00:09:54.000 This all seems, as it's developing from the defense, is that they put a risk that they were winning the case on the merits and on the technical side.

00:10:10.000 But what they needed to do is to try to show the jury that Kyle Rittenhouse is not some sort of bitter, vengeful, sociopathic person who enjoys trying to kill.

00:10:26.000 And it might pay off for the defense.

00:10:29.000 I don't think Kyle has had a moment, though.

00:10:33.000 Right, Connor?

00:10:34.000 I don't think Kyle's had a moment where all of a sudden they've lost the case.

00:10:36.000 I think he's answered some questions a little bit less than brilliantly.

00:10:41.000 Whatever.

00:10:42.000 I mean, God bless him for what he's going through.

00:10:45.000 But remember, Derek Chauvin in the Floyd trial, he remained silent the whole time.

00:10:51.000 And he, obviously, they got the worst haircut in the world.

00:10:54.000 He looked like a skinhead.

00:10:56.000 I'm not saying it's true. 0.84

00:10:56.000 I'm just saying he looked like a skinhead in the Floyd trial. 0.84

00:10:59.000 And the jury just said, oh, he's terrible. 0.71

00:11:01.000 Remember, you're dealing with human beings judging human beings.

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00:12:21.000 Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial, and it's becoming the number one news story in the country, largely because of this judge and the fact that Kyle took the stand.

00:12:32.000 It's a risk, but just kind of looking at the tea leaves, all they have to do, the Kyle Rittenhouse team, is win over one juror.

00:12:40.000 They have to win over one juror that will not be able to live with themselves for locking up Kyle Rittenhouse and putting him in jail.

00:12:47.000 Let's go to cut 44, which was not covered in the activist press.

00:12:54.000 Now, mind you, the drive-bys, the CNN, and MSNBC and all the major news outlets, they did not cover the Rittenhouse trial nearly at all until today.

00:13:01.000 As soon as Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand, they pounced.

00:13:05.000 And they also got introduced to this judge who has been admonishing the prosecution.

00:13:11.000 And you can kind of tell this judge is really fed up with what's going on.

00:13:15.000 And that's what a judge is supposed to do. 0.97

00:13:17.000 A judge is supposed to use practical judgment, prudence, and wisdom, wearing his black cloak, hopefully to have no bias and no prejudice.

00:13:26.000 Look at the merits of the case and say, wait a second, you can indict a hand sandwich.

00:13:31.000 What are you doing here?

00:13:32.000 And you could tell the judge has been poking the prosecution at every corner.

00:13:36.000 The judge has been pushing back.

00:13:37.000 Hold on, that's not allowed.

00:13:39.000 That's not allowed.

00:13:39.000 That's what a judge is supposed to do.

00:13:42.000 A judge is not supposed to be a rubber stamp or a yes man for the state or the prosecution.

00:13:48.000 This is an important thing that we talked about the other day as far as how our justice system is designed: is that prosecutors are supposed to be independent of judges and vice versa.

00:13:59.000 Judges are supposed to be the balance between the citizens, people that are going to be put on trial, and the prosecution, the people that do the trials, the state, the government, versus the people.

00:14:11.000 And what we see in the Kyle Rittenhouse drama, make no mistake, if Kyle Rittenhouse would have been a BLM Incorporated activist, and if he would have shot a Trump supporter outside of a Trump rally, that none of this would be an issue.

00:14:26.000 They would say they deserve it.

00:14:27.000 And you know what's my justification for that? 0.70

00:14:30.000 Can someone possibly explain to me why Lieutenant Michael Bird got off for shooting Ashley Babbitt, but Kyle Rittenhouse has to go through this entire saga for shooting a child rapist and an Antifa person trying to kill them.

00:14:48.000 Play cut 44. 0.65

00:14:50.000 So Ashley Babbitt is allowed to get slaughtered in the Capitol building by a black police officer, whatever he is, Capitol Police Officer, bang, right to the head, unarmed. 0.97

00:15:01.000 But Kyle Rittenhouse has a gun pointed at him, and he has to go through this entire saga as if he's a mass murdering white supremacist. 0.94

00:15:12.000 We know what's really going on here.

00:15:13.000 Play cut 44.

00:15:15.000 With your arms up in the air, he never fired, right?

00:15:19.000 Correct.

00:15:20.000 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?

00:15:30.000 Correct.

00:15:35.000 That's the whole trial.

00:15:37.000 Guess what?

00:15:38.000 Ashley Babbitt didn't have a gun. 0.96

00:15:39.000 So let me get this straight. 0.83

00:15:40.000 A Capitol police officer is allowed to kill a Trump-supporting veteran white woman, Ashley Babbitt, at the Capitol, allowed to put a bullet in her head. 0.95

00:15:50.000 But Kyle Rittenhouse is not allowed to defend himself against BLM Incorporated Antifa child rapists. 0.98

00:15:57.000 One of them wasn't a legitimate sexual assaulting child rapist who tried to kill him and trying to use deadly force against him when this guy had a gun pointed at him.

00:16:08.000 The judge understands that what's really happening here, and he's not saying this out loud and he would deny it if asked, what we are seeing happen in, is this Kenosha County?

00:16:18.000 Is that right?

00:16:19.000 And I've been there many times.

00:16:20.000 I grew up in northern Illinois, so I've been to Kenosha hundreds of times.

00:16:24.000 That what's happening in Kenosha County, what's happening in Wisconsin with this trial, is a question of the equal application of law.

00:16:34.000 Remember, James Madison famously said that the day the laws become so voluminous that people do not know them or how to follow them, it becomes a tyranny because it's then who gets to enforce them.

00:16:45.000 Cicero, the one-year Roman council, brilliant, said the more laws, the less justice.

00:16:50.000 Well, this one's not tough.

00:16:52.000 This law is not tough.

00:16:53.000 You're allowed to defend yourself against people that want to kill you.

00:16:57.000 This never should have been brought to trial.

00:16:58.000 And the judge knows that.

00:17:00.000 The judge is getting increasingly animated on mostly technical things, but I think it's pent-up frustration and anger because this judge did not get into this line of work to be lectured by some metropolitan left-wing socialist, Marxist, deconstructionist, anti-constitutional, BLM-sympathizing prosecutor about what the rule of law is.

00:17:25.000 Rittenhouse did not fire his weapon until he was at direct danger, when he was experiencing direct danger.

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00:18:45.000 What you see playing out in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is kind of this collision of different generations, viewpoints, and perspectives and classes all kind of fencing and jousting for their own preferred America that they want to live in.

00:19:01.000 So you have three separate actors that are happening right now, and you have three different kind of symbols that you could put forward.

00:19:08.000 First, you have Kyle, who represents the muscular class.

00:19:12.000 And to be put it very bluntly, he represents young white men trying to find a place in this world. 0.71

00:19:18.000 And we've talked about this for quite some time, that there's an attack on men that, not to mention the story we mentioned we noticed yesterday, where you can't even be hired by State Street Capitol advisors as a white person without proper approval.

00:19:32.000 You can't hire white people without approval at State Street. 0.64

00:19:37.000 And so Kyle Rittenhouse is kind of a participant.

00:19:42.000 He is a member of a lost generation. 0.99

00:19:46.000 And being in this lost generation, he obviously decided to take up target shooting, video games.

00:19:53.000 How dare he do such a thing as they brought up in his trial.

00:19:56.000 And, you know, some people say, well, Charlie, Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there that night.

00:20:02.000 You're right.

00:20:03.000 That's not a crime, though.

00:20:05.000 So doing things you shouldn't do does not mean you should be locked up in prison indefinitely.

00:20:12.000 And save me the soapbox lecturing.

00:20:16.000 Save me the kind of long moralizing while we had to go watch Wendy's be burned down and $3 billion of damages and many of the rioters never actually having to be put on trial.

00:20:30.000 Kyle represents the muscular class.

00:20:32.000 And you know what?

00:20:33.000 I have a soft spot for Kyle because I grew up with people just like Kyle that talk like Kyle, the same sort of accent, that view the world the same way as Kyle.

00:20:44.000 And I will say that the verdict will see, but if he ends up getting acquitted, putting him on trial, I think that a lot of people on that jury said, huh, I have a son just like him.

00:20:57.000 A little bit clueless, a little bit, what's the word I'm looking for, Connor?

00:21:02.000 I don't want to say clueless.

00:21:03.000 I'm not insulting Kyle, by the way, at all.

00:21:05.000 I'm on his team here, okay? 0.88

00:21:06.000 He's a little bit clumsy, naive, not even clumsy or great. 0.85

00:21:10.000 That's right.

00:21:11.000 And he's just kind of one of the lost boys.

00:21:15.000 And that's not an accusation against him.

00:21:17.000 He's a member of a generation that has made him and a society.

00:21:20.000 And by the way, remember this.

00:21:23.000 This is during some of the most, the harshest, unconstitutional and immoral lockdowns that were all across the Midwest.

00:21:32.000 Illinois and Wisconsin were largely locked down.

00:21:35.000 And don't worry, if you were a young Black Lives Matter activist, you were allowed to pillage and plunder, throw Molotov cocktails. 1.00

00:21:42.000 But if you wanted to be a young white male, and by the way, you know why he was there, and the prosecution was laying this out.

00:21:51.000 He was there to administer medical support, gauze pads, emergency medical kits.

00:21:58.000 So in the first category, you have Kyle Rittenhouse, muscular class, young white male, which obviously our society is increasingly hostile towards young white men. 0.76

00:22:09.000 They're the problem. 0.52

00:22:10.000 They must be rooted out. 0.99

00:22:11.000 We have to get rid of whiteness. 1.00

00:22:12.000 AT ⁇ T tells us, that's right.

00:22:14.000 AT ⁇ T tells us we have to get rid of whiteness. 0.96

00:22:16.000 In the second category, and the most obvious category, and the least surprising, is the self-hating prosecution, is the college-educated, arrogant, smug, deceitful, elitist, treacherous, double-minded type of prosecution that is kind of like, you know who the prosecution reminds me of.

00:22:40.000 It just came to me, Chris Hayes.

00:22:42.000 Like if Chris Hayes was a prosecutor, that's who that would be.

00:22:47.000 And this guy, let's use another example.

00:22:51.000 John Ossif from Georgia.

00:22:54.000 It kind of looks like that, right?

00:22:56.000 Suspiciously skinny, kind of really an ally of BLM Incorporated. 0.84

00:23:02.000 So there you have Kyle Rittenhouse, naive, a little clumsy, but no bad intentions.

00:23:08.000 Let me be very clear.

00:23:10.000 The guy breaks down and cries through PTSD because he killed a couple people.

00:23:15.000 He's not celebrating it.

00:23:16.000 He's not looking to the jury with that kind of smug look, which, by the way, you're like, oh, no, of course he isn't.

00:23:22.000 You probably have not seen a lot of murder trials, by the way.

00:23:25.000 There's plenty of times where people look plenty satisfied by what they did.

00:23:32.000 Try to think of an instance where someone did that recently.

00:23:36.000 There was some instance where someone said something or did something.

00:23:41.000 Yeah, you're right.

00:23:42.000 Some of the mass shooters, you're right.

00:23:44.000 The Parkland kid.

00:23:45.000 I'm not going to say his name.

00:23:46.000 The kid from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas in Florida.

00:23:50.000 Kyle Rittenhouse is regretful.

00:23:53.000 He's a kid who's still growing up.

00:23:56.000 He's still going through the maturation process.

00:23:59.000 And let's just be honest.

00:24:02.000 Why was this even an issue?

00:24:03.000 This was an issue because of the person who should be on trial, which is the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, who did not deploy the National Guard, who did not bring in the police.

00:24:14.000 If the police and the National Guard were doing their job, Kyle Rittenhouse would have showed up with a gun and they would have said, son, go home.

00:24:20.000 We got this.

00:24:22.000 So you see, that's what men would do to a child who shows up to try to do the job.

00:24:28.000 You see the difference?

00:24:29.000 Now, I'm not insulting Kyle.

00:24:31.000 I wanted to say this.

00:24:32.000 I could just see the emails coming in.

00:24:33.000 Charlie, why are you calling Kyle a child?

00:24:35.000 He was 17.

00:24:35.000 He was.

00:24:37.000 Showing up with an AR-15.

00:24:38.000 It's not wise, okay?

00:24:40.000 But he defended himself.

00:24:42.000 He didn't go and start hunting people in the streets.

00:24:45.000 He did not shoot until he was hunted down.

00:24:49.000 So there you have the first category, the muscular class, Kyle Rittenhouse, young white male that society is told to hate, and it's increasingly hostile towards. 0.70

00:24:57.000 Then you have the prosecution, typical college-educated, smug, arrogant.

00:25:02.000 But then is the interesting third category, which we did not expect, right?

00:25:07.000 We expected the two worldviews colliding.

00:25:11.000 But then now you have this third actor, which is exactly why the country is in the garbage it's in, because this third actor has been so MIA.

00:25:20.000 The third actor is a common sense, non-radical Democrat.

00:25:26.000 It's a common sense, non-radical Democrat.

00:25:32.000 And this judge loves the rule of law.

00:25:36.000 This judge is not having it.

00:25:38.000 This judge is not what Alexander Solshenitsyn warned in the Gulag Archipelago as being the reason why societies fall apart.

00:25:47.000 He is not an ideologue.

00:25:50.000 This judge was flipping through pamphlets to order Girl Scout cookies or something in the break.

00:25:56.000 I mean, this guy's just a normal guy.

00:25:58.000 He has a brewer's logo right behind him.

00:26:04.000 And this judge is not going to put up with a belligerent and aggressive prosecution that gets to go lock up Kyle Rittenhouse because he satisfies some sort of identity politics villain box.

00:26:14.000 Remember, Joe Biden tweeted out, this is a white supremacist.

00:26:17.000 There is zero evidence at all whatsoever that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist, except the fact that he's a white person that carried a gun and had his hat backwards.

00:26:25.000 And that filled the sort of archetype of what Joy Reed and Robin D'Angelo and Ibram X. Kendi think a white supremacist is, is someone who wears their hat backwards and is white from the Midwest and carries a gun around.

00:26:38.000 Excuse me, that's racism.

00:26:39.000 That's stereotyping.

00:26:40.000 That's prejudice.

00:26:42.000 Put that famous picture up that was just sent by Andrew.

00:26:45.000 You know what I'm talking about.

00:26:47.000 You put this picture up, and this is the same reason, everybody, that we are all living through a manufactured simulation.

00:26:53.000 The simulation is that because of social media and because of the forms of how our mind actually works going all the way back to Plato, we actually don't do much critical thinking anymore.

00:27:04.000 Now, let me connect three different things together.

00:27:07.000 The same stereotyping we see with Kyle Rittenhouse, and just put this picture up, because some people saw this picture, like, oh, he's up to no good, because you have been trained, you have been conditioned to believe, oh, white man with his mouth open, AR-15, kind of a fatigue-looking uniform, right up on the live stream.

00:27:27.000 He must be up to no good.

00:27:29.000 You see that picture, you say, he must be a racist. 0.79

00:27:33.000 Do you know what that picture reminds me of?

00:27:35.000 And go back to the feed.

00:27:37.000 That picture reminds me of the same sort of sloppy thinking we saw with the Covington kids.

00:27:43.000 Same thing.

00:27:45.000 This is the Covington trial that never happened.

00:27:50.000 Let me say that again.

00:27:51.000 Kyle Rittenhouse is the Covington kid trial that never happened.

00:27:58.000 The Covington kid trial with the maniac that banged the drum in Nicholas Sandman's face, and they wanted to put him in jail because he was a pro-lifer on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a maniac banging the drum in his face, wearing a MAGA hat, they wanted to put him in prison for that, effectively.

00:28:22.000 Well, Kyle Rittenhouse fills that same sort of archetype.

00:28:24.000 Let me give you another example.

00:28:25.000 This is the power of archetypes, everybody, and symbols, which is why when you lose your ability to reason, this is a tragedy.

00:28:32.000 This is collateral damage of the Instagram age.

00:28:35.000 I'll give you another example of this.

00:28:38.000 Border Patrol agents on horseback with ropes whipping migrants.

00:28:43.000 Never happened.

00:28:45.000 But people said, oh, this is so terrible because it brings back memories of slavery.

00:28:50.000 Excuse me?

00:28:51.000 You're trying to tell me you want to now put people off of Border Patrol and in jail because it brings back some sort of unfounded ancestral memories?

00:29:00.000 All they have is a narrative.

00:29:02.000 They don't have facts.

00:29:03.000 They do not have evidence.

00:29:05.000 They don't have reason.

00:29:07.000 They don't have due process.

00:29:08.000 And the judge sees right through this.

00:29:11.000 You do not get to lock up an 18-year-old.

00:29:14.000 Is Kyle now 18 or 19?

00:29:16.000 Whatever.

00:29:16.000 He's 18.

00:29:17.000 You do not get to put him in prison because he put his hat backwards, wore a green shirt, had an AR-15, and looked dangerous.

00:29:28.000 This is the sort of psychological manipulation that so many people fall prey to.

00:29:35.000 That you see someone that is screaming on television, you're like, oh my goodness, I must immediately be scared of that person.

00:29:41.000 And what it is, is it's the same sort of manipulation that they accuse the right of having towards people of color, which doesn't exist.

00:29:50.000 But they are actually legitimately creating it.

00:29:53.000 Same thing with the McCloskeys.

00:29:55.000 Remember the McCloskeys? 0.86

00:29:56.000 You had McCloskey come out in Missouri, even though BLM broke into his fence twice and police did nothing.

00:30:02.000 Do you see a common theme here?

00:30:04.000 Police do nothing.

00:30:05.000 All of a sudden you have vigilantes and people standing up and doing something.

00:30:10.000 Meanwhile, according to the Blaze, anti-white hate crime reached the highest level in two decades in 2020.

00:30:18.000 And let's just cut to the chase.

00:30:20.000 If Kyle Rittenhouse was anything but a white male, this would not be an issue.

00:30:26.000 It's that simple.

00:30:28.000 We know that to be true.

00:30:30.000 If Kyle Rittenhouse would have done what the black police officer did who killed Ashley Babbitt in cold blood, unarmed, no threat to his life, bang.

00:30:40.000 And by the way, after Lieutenant Michael Byrd did that on January the 6th at the Capitol, he fled the scene.

00:30:47.000 What kind of police officer flees the scene after you put a bullet in someone's head?

00:30:52.000 Meanwhile, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17 years old, turned himself in.

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00:33:04.000 So there's a lot happening around that.

00:33:06.000 There's so much story.

00:33:07.000 So you guys are going to have to tune in tomorrow.

00:33:08.000 That's just the lesson of it.

00:33:09.000 We have so much I want to get to.

00:33:10.000 Also, I want to get to our fertilizer shortage.

00:33:13.000 It's a big deal.

00:33:15.000 I'm telling you, we look at stories that no one else looks at.

00:33:20.000 We are going to have a friend of mine and a friend of the show, Keith Rose.

00:33:24.000 He has never been wrong about one of these predictions.

00:33:27.000 There is a massive synthetic fertilizer shortage happening in our country right now.

00:33:32.000 And no one wants to talk about it.

00:33:32.000 Massive.

00:33:36.000 Fertilizer shortages threaten to spike food costs.

00:33:38.000 So just be ready for that when all of a sudden we have a food crisis in our country.

00:33:43.000 Where did this come from?

00:33:44.000 We tried to warn you.

00:33:45.000 Fertilizer crisis.

00:33:46.000 Also, thanks to the war on petroleum, it's harder than ever to make synthetic fertilizer.

00:33:52.000 Okay, so to summarize all this together, what's happening in the Rittenhouse saga is the tyranny of double standards, the unequal application of the law, and treating one group of people differently for the same set of circumstances or even more incriminating set of circumstances than others.

00:34:13.000 The McCloskeys are rich, white, property-owning, mansion-dwelling people in the suburbs of St. Louis.

00:34:20.000 Therefore, we must put them in prison, even though they got pardoned, thank goodness.

00:34:25.000 Kyle Rittenhouse is a white, gun-wielding hat-wearing, you know, wearing the hat backwards, which, oh, that must mean he's up to no good individual, and therefore he must be penalized or criminalized.

00:34:43.000 And the threatening of jurors is the most interesting development here.

00:34:50.000 How is that not jury tampering?

00:34:52.000 That George Floyd's cousin says, oh, we got a lot of people taking pictures.

00:34:56.000 We got a lot of people taking pictures of this jury.

00:35:00.000 That is direct threats against the jury.

00:35:02.000 I want you to imagine something.

00:35:04.000 I want you to imagine if any sort of person that was on trial for the left, if all of a sudden you had any figure on the right, say, yeah, you know, we got the pictures of all the jurors.

00:35:21.000 This is such an upside-down set of circumstances that we're living in right now.

00:35:26.000 Meanwhile, Twitter has suspended the Libertarian Party of Kentucky's Twitter account for saying that Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong.

00:35:34.000 Did we tweet that out?

00:35:35.000 The same exact word.

00:35:36.000 So we'll see if they suspend us or not.

00:35:38.000 I doubt it.

00:35:39.000 We'll see.

00:35:42.000 And what is the priority of federal law enforcement?

00:35:46.000 Federal law enforcement, run by Merrick Garland, is too busy issuing threats against moms and dads showing up to school board meetings across the country.

00:35:56.000 And Merrick Garland has not yet rescinded his letter, even though the National School Board Association rescinded his letter that he said was the inspiration for that.

00:36:07.000 Now, you'd think jury tampering would be a minor concern for the Department of Justice.

00:36:12.000 Minor detail?

00:36:14.000 No, instead, they're too busy trying to hunt for a diary.

00:36:21.000 Murders are up 80% in Austin, Texas.

00:36:25.000 And the Attorney General Garland, he is signing off on raids against opposition journalists like James O'Keefe.

00:36:34.000 But James O'Keefe, he's an opposition journalist.

00:36:38.000 He's not helpful to the regime.

00:36:41.000 And this is why this Kyle Rittenhouse saga is so incredibly important, everybody, is that if we just kind of sit idly by and don't comment on this and don't call it for what it is, then they can come and take guns from anyone.

00:36:58.000 They can come and take firearms from any person.

00:37:02.000 Kyle Rittenhouse, it is no longer about Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:37:06.000 They are now going to make it not illegal to own guns because they lost that in the court in the Heller decision.

00:37:12.000 No, they are going to make it illegal to use the guns.

00:37:16.000 And better yet, if you're an Antifa left-wing person and you want to kill a Trump supporter, you will be given all the allowances the court and the criminal justice system has ahead of you.

00:37:25.000 In Chicago, gangbangers in the light of day start killing each other.

00:37:29.000 District Attorney Kim Fox lets them all out.

00:37:32.000 James Monroe said the right of self-defense never ceases.

00:37:36.000 It is among the most sacred and alike necessary to nations and individuals.

00:37:41.000 They want to make you a criminal for defending yourself.

00:37:45.000 They want to make it illegal for standing up against tyranny and anarchy.

00:37:49.000 So we're going to defund the police.

00:37:51.000 We're going to take away your guns.

00:37:52.000 And if you still have the guns, we're going to make it illegal for you to use the guns.

00:37:55.000 That's what's on trial with Kyle Rittenhouse. 0.91

00:37:57.000 And all the other identity politics, tribalist garbage that's happening in our country right now.

00:38:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody. 0.74

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The Charlie Kirk Show - November 10, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse Takes the Stand—LIVE Reaction

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