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==Rush to judgement==
==Rush to judgement==
{{See also|Fake news in the 2020 presidential election}}
{{See also|Fake news in the 2020 presidential election}}
===Political environment===
===Political environment===
[[File:BLM terrorist incidents.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|A ''[[Time magazine]]'' survey found 570 far-left insurrections in 220 cities across the United States between May 24, 2020 and August 22, 2020.<ref>https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/</ref>]]
[[File:BLM terrorist incidents.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|A ''[[Time magazine]]'' survey found 570 far-left insurrections in 220 cities across the United States between May 24, 2020 and August 22, 2020.<ref>https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/</ref>]]
"There's going to be some media accountability coming soon," Rittenhouse said told Fox News in an interview Monday while he was in Phoenix for the AmericaFest conference hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA.
"There's going to be some media accountability coming soon," Rittenhouse said told Fox News in an interview Monday while he was in Phoenix for the AmericaFest conference hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA.
It was a one-sentence warning that should have mainstream news organizations scrambling.</blockquote></ref>
It was a one-sentence warning that should have mainstream news organizations scrambling.</blockquote></ref>
===Twitter censorship and agitprop===
[[Gateway Pundit]] reporter Cassandra Fairbanks’ Twitter account was suspended for tweeting “Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong.” Twitter claims that this statement is “glorifying violence.” Fairbanks told ''[[Breitbart News]]:''
[[File:Antifa killer.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Biden terrorist Michael Reinoehl (''right, white shirt, black hat'') lies in wait drawing his pistol for Patriot Prayer warrior [[Aaron Danielson]] (''left, tan shorts, black shirt and hat'').]]
{{Quotebox-float|“The fact that you can no longer defend someone on social media who has not been convicted of any crime should shock and terrify everyone. They want to control all narratives… and we are letting them get away with it. KYLE RITTENHOUSE DID NOTHING WRONG.”}}
John Pierce, attorney for Rittenhouse, condemned [[Twitter]]:
{{quotebox-float|“A journalist just got banned from Twitter for simply posting ‘Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong. Twitter and other [[Big Tech]] companies are now engaged in brazen and outright [[censorship]] of political speech.
“They can no longer pretend to be neutral ‘internet computer service’ providers protected from [[defamation]] claims by [[Section 230]] of the Communications Decency Act. They have now stepped in the arena and are publishers. Myself and Lin Wood intend to hold Twitter fully liable to Nicholas Sandmann, Kyle Rittenhouse, and every other person whose life it has tried to destroy simply because it disagrees with their political viewpoints.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/30/journalist-cassandra-fairbanks-suspended-from-twitter-over-kyle-rittenhouse-support/</ref>}}
On the same day that Twitter suspended Fairbanks, Twitter was flooded with users glorifying the [[murder]] of a [[Patriot Prayer]] peaceful protester in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/29/nyt-portland-homicide-victim-had-patriot-prayer-hat/</ref>
===Rittenhouse detained===
Rittenhouse was initially represented by John Pierce, with help from [[Covington kids|Nicholas Sandmann]]’s lawyer Lin Wood.
[[File:Biden defamed Rittenhouse.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Socialist leader Joe Biden defamed Kyle Rittenhouse with unfounded racist smears.]]
The legal team said that “in a reactionary rush to appease the divisive, destructive forces currently roiling this country, prosecutors in Kenosha did not engage in any meaningful analysis of the facts, or any in-depth review of available video footage (some of which shows that a critical state’s witness was not even at the area where the shots were fired); this was not a serious investigation. Rather, after learning Kyle may have had [[conservative]] political viewpoints, they immediately saw him as a convenient target who they could use as a scapegoat to distract from the Jacob Blake shooting and the government’s abject failure to ensure basic law and order to citizens. Within 24-36 hours, he was charged with multiple homicide counts.”
Pierce and Wood set up a fund at the #FightBack Foundation Inc., a Texas 501(c)(4) foundation,<ref>https://fightback.law/</ref> Pierce said,
{{quotebox-float|“A 17-year old child should not have to take up arms in America to protect life and property. That is the job of state and local governments. However, those governments have failed, and law-abiding citizens have no choice but to protect their own communities as their forefathers did at Lexington and Concord in 1775. Kyle is not a racist or a white supremacist.<ref>https://news.sky.com/story/kyle-rittenhouse-teenager-says-he-is-not-racist-and-supports-black-lives-matter-in-first-interview-since-trial-12475506</ref> He is a brave, patriotic, compassionate law-abiding American who loves his country and his community. He did nothing wrong. He defended himself, which is a fundamental right of all Americans given by God and protected by law. He is now in the crosshairs of institutional forces that are much more powerful than him. But he will stand up to them and fight not only for himself, but for all Americans and their beloved Constitution. We will never leave his side until he is victorious in that fight.”}}
Pierce and Wood were fired before years end when the Rittenhouse family discovered that Kyle could have been bailed out months earlier, but Pierce was holding Kyle in an Illinois jail by fighting an extradition request from Wisconsin and using Kyle's detention as a fundraising scheme for political purposes.
The team of Mark Short, Corey Chirafasi, and Natali Wisco took over Kyle's defense.
==Biden defamation attacks==
==Biden defamation attacks==