Kyle Rittenhouse, who was convicted last year of charges linked to the killing of three people in Kenosha in August 2020, has started a new contribution fund to assist bring select media sites and individuals to court to be held accountable for their “falsehoods.”
Rittenhouse told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Monday night that donations to his “Media Accountability Project” will assist fund the possible litigation. According to Rittenhouse, his team is considering suing “quite a few” politicians, athletes, and celebrities, including Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of The View.
“[Goldberg] called me a ‘murderer’ after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that,”During his appearance on Carlson’s show, Rittenhouse remarked.
Rittenhouse’s acquittal, which occurred while he was 19 years old, sparked indignation and sympathy across the country. After travelling to Kenosha when he was 17, Rittenhouse fatally murdered two individuals, Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz during the social turmoil that erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.
In November, Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all five first-degree felony charges against him, including deliberate and reckless killing.
A quotation from Malcolm X opens a debut video put on Rittenhouse’s Twitter page Monday night: “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.”
The film then cuts to a succession of excerpts from articles, videos, and other remarks regarding Rittenhouse, some of which related his conduct and acquittal to racism and white supremacy. It concludes with brief footage of former President Donald Trump, who appears to be referring to reporters as “enemies of the people.”
According to Carlson, Rittenhouse’s motivation for starting his fund was to assist keep other organizations and people accountable.” accountable for what they did to me because I don’t want to see anybody have to go through what I went through.”
Rittenhouse’s prosecution “revealed significant corruption in our media for everyone to see,” according to the contribution fund’s page, and he “won’t let it go unanswered.”
“Assist in holding our media’s worst offenders responsible in court for their vicious and defamatory lies,” the website says.
On Twitter and during his interview with Carlson, Rittenhouse did not identify any specific media outlets, but he did cite Cenk Uygur, a pundit and creator of The Young Turks, who “continue to label me a murderer.'”
While Rittenhouse is still active on Twitter, he has apparently joined Trump’s own social media network, Truth Social.