Rittenhouse Must Sue Joe Biden Et Al. By Chris Knight (Florida)
Kyle Rittenhouse was defamed by Joe Biden, and lower level Leftoids for one year. He was called a white supremacist, with the implication that he murdered in cold blood. Since a jury of his peers said be did not, Biden and everyone else needs to be sued, and sued hard. Here is an overview of litigation targets. Obviously, all of the mainstream media are the first targets, but here are some notable individuals.
“President Joe Biden could face a civil defamation suit from newly-acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for calling him a “white supremacist” last year — without evidence, and before Biden was able to enjoy the immunities of presidential office.
Rittenhouse was, by then, a “public figure” for the purposes of defamation law, and would have to show that any defendant acted with “actual malice” — that is, with reckless disregard for the truth. He could arguably do so for Biden’s false statement.
When Biden made the now-infamous, and false, claim about Rittenhouse at the end of last September, more than a month had gone by since the Aug. 25, 2020 shootings for which Rittenhouse had been charged within days. Even then it was clear that no evidence existed to substantiate the media’s initial claim that he was a “white supremacist” — a claim his legal counsel at the time denied on Aug. 28, 2020, and reiterated in a subsequent interview with Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Patriot 125.
Typically, presidents are immune from civil lawsuits for torts alleged to have taken place during their time in office. But as the infamous case of Paula Jones’s sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton showed, presidents are not immune from suit for torts committed prior to their taking office. Biden could therefore be sued by Rittenhouse. While Rittenhouse has yet not said he will sue, his mother recently said explicitly that Biden had “defamed” her son — perhaps a sign of a lawsuit to come.
Rittenhouse’s acquittal will only add to the evidentiary ammunition — especially as prosecutors never once produced a shred of evidence during the trial that he had any white supremacist ties or racial motivations.
Before the verdict was delivered in Rittenhouse’s trial, Biden compounded the damage, with his press secretary referring to the defendant as a “vigilante.” And Biden has yet to apologize, instead saying he was “angry and concerned” by the verdict.”
“Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney Mark Richards slammed President Biden for calling the now jury-cleared 18-year-old a “white supremacist” and saying things “so incorrect and untrue” about his client on the campaign trail.
“I’ve never had a case, I don’t think I ever will, where within two days or three days of one another, you know, the President and the presidential candidate comment on it. And both of them had such different beliefs,” Richards said.
“President Biden said some things, I think are so incorrect and untrue — he is not a white supremacist. I’m glad that he at least respects the jury verdict.
Biden while saying “I stand by what the jury has concluded,” also said he is “angry and concerned” by the not guilty verdict on all counts tied to Rittenhouse shooting two men and injuring a third at a protest last year.
In a formal statement released by the White House, Biden said the verdict will “leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included,” adding that “we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.”
“I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us.”
During a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Aug. 25 of last year, Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz. He was acquitted of all charges Friday, including homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment.
In September 2020, Biden’s Twitter account shared a video of then-President Donald Trump speaking with Fox News host Chris Wallace during a presidential debate about “white supremacists” and violent acts committed by the right-wing extremist group Proud Boys across the country.
Wallace brought up the Kenosha shooting, comparing it to the other acts.
“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,” he asked.
While Trump said, “Sure I’m willing to do that,” he quickly added that “everything” he saw was coming from the left. Trump soon after told the Proud Boys to “Stand back and standby.”
“There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night,” Biden’s tweet accompanying the video read.
When returning to the White House Friday afternoon after an unexpected annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center, Biden supported the jury system despite his anger over it.
“Look, I stand by what the jury has concluded,” Biden told reporters. “The jury system works, and we have to abide by it.”
In his formal statement, the president noted that we cannot “heal our country’s wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law.”
Biden also said he was aware of how angry the verdict might make some — given the protests and riots that hit the streets in the past two years — urging Americans to “express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law.”
“Violence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy. The White House and Federal authorities have been in contact with Governor Evers’s office to prepare for any outcome in this case, and I have spoken with the Governor this afternoon and offered support and any assistance needed to ensure public safety.”
There have been calls for the president to apologize to Rittenhouse for comparing the then-17-year old to white supremacists.
“Joe Biden needs to publicly apologize to Kyle Rittenhouse,” Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted following the verdict.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also urged the commander-in-chief to apologize, calling his previous comments “dangerous and inflammatory.”
“Before he knew the facts, Biden prejudged the Rittenhouse case. He smeared a teenager to score political points and spread lies about this case,” she tweeted.
“What Biden did was dangerous and inflammatory. Biden needs to apologize and ACT NOW before the left uses his lies to fuel violence.”
https://www.amren.com/news/2021/11/dem-nadler-calls-on-doj-to-review-rittenhouse-verdict/
More to sue:
“Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, called on the Justice Department to review the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.”
A jury acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges Friday. Nadler called the verdict “heartbreaking” and said it set a “dangerous precedent” that warranted federal review. He asserted that Rittenhouse crossed state lines “looking for trouble.” He also suggested that Rittenhouse targeted people engaged in “First Amendment-protected protest.
Nadler did not specify which division of the Justice Department he wants to investigate the Rittenhouse case. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment. The criminal division would likely oversee any investigation involving transportation of firearms, while the civil rights division would be in charge of any probe into First Amendment rights violations by Rittenhouse.
Kristen Clarke, the head of the civil rights division, referred to Rittenhouse as a “white armed extremist” in a social media post last year. She called Rittenhouse a murderer in another post.”
“The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in his murder trial Friday was either a triumph of justice or White supremacy, depending on which side of the aisle you are on in Congress.
Rep. Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat and Black Lives Matter activist, said the verdict was “White supremacy in action.”
“This system isn’t built to hold White supremacists accountable,” the member of the far-left “squad” from Missouri added. “It’s why Black and brown folks are brutalized and put in cages while White supremacists murderers walk free.”
Mr. Rittenhouse does not claim to be a White supremacist.
“I’m hurt. I’m angry. I’m heartbroken,” Ms. Bush concluded.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat said Mr. Rittenhouse “is living proof that White tears can still forestall justice,” echoing a recent viral post by MSNBC personality Joy Reid. She compared Mr. Rittenhouse breaking down in tears while on the stand to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing after he was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate in high school.”
https://www.amren.com/blog/2021/11/kyle-rittenhouse-is-acquitted/
https://vdare.com/articles/john-derbyshire-that-rittenhouse-verdict-america-is-not-dead-yet
And another:
“After a Wisconsin jury declared that accused shooter Kyle Rittenhouse was “not guilty” on all counts, former NFL player Colin Kaepernick called the teenager a “white supremacist” benefiting from a system that Kaep wants to “abolish.”
Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot several assailants who attacked him during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, was declared innocent in a Friday afternoon reading of his verdict. Still, the determination did not sit well with the hard-left, anti-American protester and former second-string NFL quarterback.
Just after the verdict, Kaepernick went on a tear, tweeting, “We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist.”
Kaepernick added, “This only further validates the need to abolish our current system. White supremacy cannot be reformed.”
No evidence was presented during the trial to show that Rittenhouse was a member of any so-called “white supremacist” groups.
Kaepernick was far from the only leftists to go on the attack. His biopic partner, Hollywood director Ava DuVernay, also tweeted about the Rittenhouse verdict, posting that the “not guilty” verdict now justifies gunning people down.
DuVernay tweeted: “John Huber and Karen Bloom, parents of murderer #KyleRittenhouse’s victim Anthony Huber: the verdict ‘sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.'”
DuVernay did not bother to tell her fans that Anthony Huber, one of the men shot by Rittenhouse during the riot, physically attacked the 17-year-old Rittenhouse by hitting him with a skateboard and briefly tried to wrestle away the teen’s rifle before Rittenhouse was able to break free and shoot his attacker.
Self-defense experts determined that Rittenhouse’s actions were “reasonable,” considering that each time he fired, it was in response to a direct threat of physical harm.”
“President Joe Biden reacted to the “not guilty” verdicts from the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial on Friday.
“While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
The president said he would continue working to “heal our country’s wounds” until “every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity.” He called for protests of the verdict to remain peaceful.
“I urge everyone to express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law,” he said. “Violence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy.”
Biden’s written statement went much further to sympathize with critics of the verdict than his first reaction to the trial as he arrived back to the White House from a colonoscopy and a physical examination at Walter Reed hospital.
“I stand by what the jury has to say,” Biden said shortly. “The jury system works and we have to abide by it.”
He added he did not watch the case.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday afternoon the White House wanted to see “peaceful protest” in reaction to the trial.
“[W]e are supporting any effort toward peaceful protest, that’s certainly what we will continue to encourage, as anyone looks to have their voice heard regardless of the outcome,” she said.
On Monday, Psaki said she would not react specifically to the trial but condemned “vigilantes” armed with “assault weapons” in American communities.
President Biden faced calls to apologize after his social media account referred to Rittenhouse as a “white supremacist” in a campaign video.
Rittenhouse’s mother Wendy criticized him publicly on television, accusing the president of defaming her son.
“I was so angry for a while at him and what he did to my son, he defamed him,” Rittenhouse’s mother said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
After the verdict was handed down from the jury, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged Biden to publicly apologize to Rittenhouse on social media.
More “peaceful” protests from the Left:
https://www.infowars.com/posts/rittenhouse-protests-escalate-into-a-riot/
“Portland police declared a riot on Friday night, after protesters, angry at the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, began smashing windows and hurling objects at the officers.
Some 200 people gathered in downtown Portland, Oregon soon after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of murder in a fatal shooting that saw two men killed and another wounded during violent Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020. The jury in the case had ruled that the 18-year-old had fired his semi-automatic rifle in self-defense.
The protesters in Portland took out their fury on passing cars, broke windows, and damaged the doors of a number of buildings in the vicinity. Some in the crowd reportedly called for the city’s Justice Center to be burnt down.
When law enforcement agents arrived on site, demonstrators began tossing objects at them, with minor person-to-person clashes also being reported.
The police department declared a riot after what it described as a “violent, destructive group” attempted to breach the gates of the Multnomah County Detention Center. However, they failed to gain entry and were later dispersed.
One person was arrested as a result of the unrest, and the police published a photo of the rear window of one of its vehicles being smashed as part of its efforts to identify the perpetrator.”
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