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During a White House news conference on Monday, President Trump Online Cigarettes Store USA suggested that the 17-year-old accused of killing two people with a semiautomatic rifle at a protest in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 25 had acted in self-defense.
“That was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw and he was trying to get away from them I guess it looks like, ” Trump said of Kyle Rittenhouse, adding, “He fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that we’re looking at right now and it’s under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble... he probably would have been killed. ”
Rittenhouse had traveled to protests in Kenosha from his home in a nearby Illinois town. Kenosha Newport Cigarettes Shop has been the site of intense demonstrations, some of which have turned violent, since Aug. 23, when a Black man named Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer. Blake’s shooting was captured on video and turned the city into a focal point for the ongoing national protests against racial injustice and police brutality that erupted around the country following the death of George Floyd in May. Based on posts on his social media pages, it appears that Rittenhouse has been a supporter of the president, attending a Trump rally in January.
President Trump at a news conference at the White House on Monday Video filmed by witnesses shows Rittenhouse carrying a large rifle and accompanying groups of right-wing activists who have said they went to Kenosha to protect property against rioting. Rittenhouse was also filmed running away from the scene of a shooting and subsequently being chased by protesters. The footage shows Rittenhouse fall as he runs away from demonstrators who accused him of the earlier shooting. He is then seen firing his Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes gun at some of his pursuers from the ground. Rittenhouse was arrested the following day and charged with killing two people and seriously injuring a third.
While Trump seemed to justify Rittenhouse opening fire on the protesters, he repeatedly criticized “left-wing political violence” that has occurred at recent protests “in Democrat-run cities. ”