Lara Trump Says the Media Was ‘Happy’ to Push the Narrative That Rittenhouse Was a White Supremacist

Former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump blasted the media for how they treated Kyle Rittenhouse. During an interview with Fox News Friday, Lara Trump was asked about remarks Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother…

Savannah Rychcik·Nov 12, 2021·2 min read

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His mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, was asked about her son’s breakdown on the stand during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday night, as IJR reported.

“I just broke down with Kyle crying like that. It made me feel heartbroken, sad, and I wanted to just go up there and hug him and tell him it would be okay,” she said.

When asked about how it felt for someone to describe her son as a white supremacist, Wendy Rittenhouse replied, “I was in shock. I was angry. President Biden don’t know my son whatsoever. He’s not a white supremacist. He’s not a racist and he did that for the votes. And I was so angry for a while at him and what he did to my son, he defamed him.”

Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for the fatal shooting that took the lives of two individuals and injured another, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in 2020.