Kyle Rittenhouse is a 17-year-old charged with five felonies and a misdemeanor after shooting three protestors in Wisconsin last week, two of them fatally.
The president has been using the unrest in many cities as a campaign argument against Democrat Joe Biden, arguing that local Democratic officials have not done enough to quell the violence. Biden and other Democrats have countered that it is Trump who is both stoking racial division and who bears responsibility – as the current occupant of the White House – for the violence.
In a follow up statement Monday evening, Biden said Trump"wouldn't even repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder because of his attacks on others" and described the president as"too weak, too scared of the hatred he has stirred to put an end to it."Trump's comments Monday mirrored those of Rittenhouse's lawyer, who has cast his client as"a hero who had no choice but to defend himself.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson appeared to justify the shooting, saying on his television show last week that it's understandable given violence and chaos in the city.
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