Trump congratulates who shot two protesters and acquitted teenager Rittenhouse 
Former US President Donald Trump congratulated teenager Kyle Rittenhaus, acquitted in the murder of two Rittenhouse during the riots in 2020. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
“Congratulations for being found innocent on all charges … If this is not self-defense, then what is self-defense?”, – he said.
The Rittenhouse case has become one of the most notorious in recent times in the United States. Society has practically split into two camps – those who consider Rittenhouse to be a mass murderer and vigilante, and those who are confident that he has not exceeded the limits of permissible self-defense.
On August 26, 2020, a video was published, filmed by an eyewitness: the crowd The rioters chase 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting a man who was trying to attack him. At some point, Rittenhouse stumbles and falls, after which two demonstrators attack him. He opens fire, kills one of them and wounds the second, armed with a pistol.