The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who fatally shot two people and wounded a third during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020, has become—like many current events—the subject of two dramatically divergent political narratives.
Some on the right, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson and author and aspiring politician J. D. Vance, have tried to turn Rittenhouse into a patriotic hero bravely defending businesses from looters and arsonists—despite strong evidence that the teen, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, bumbled his way into a dangerous situation he was not mature enough to handle.
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