After being found not guilty for the deadly shooting that took place during the Kenosha riots in 2020, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, who was portrayed as a white supremacist and murderer by the media, only did a handful of interviews before seeming to fade away. While the media trudged forward, continuing to spin a narrative around the supposed “failed” justice system, Rittenhouse recently spoke with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson about what his plans are for the future, and not surprisingly, it has to deal with the lies and tactics used by mainstream media.

In the video, which is featured below, Rittenhouse stated, “Me and my team have decided to launch The Media Accountability Project as a tool to help fundraise and hold the media accountable for the lies they said and deal with them in court.”

He added, “I don’t want to see anybody else have to deal with what I went through. So I want to hold them accountable for what they did to me, because I don’t want to see anybody have to go through what I went through.”

Carlson not only focused on the new project launched by Rittenhouse, but was sure to ask him about the people and news organizations he personally was planning on suing. “Well, right now, we’re looking at quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes, Whoopi Goldberg’s on the list. She called me a ‘murderer’ after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that. We’re going to hold everybody who lied about me accountable, such as everybody who lied called me a white supremacist. They’re all going to be held accountable. And we’re going to handle them in a courtroom.”

It should be noted that this size of defamation lawsuit isn’t the first of its kind. In 2019, Nicholas Sandmann was portrayed as some MAGA extremists when he stood in front of a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial. The video would go viral given the context and Sandmann wearing a MAGA hat. While being labeled the aggressor, Sandmann was 16-years-old at the time.

Following the narrative, Sandmann ultimately sued networks like NBC, The Washington Post, and CNN. They all made settlements.

 

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