Julio is on the ground in Kenosha, Wisconsin covering the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Rittenhouse is on trial for shooting and killing two men who allegedly tried to kill him. The prosecution’s case was ripped apart on Monday when the one survivor admitted he pulled his gun on Rittenhouse first. One lawyer for the prosecution is caught doing a facepalm when this admission from their star witness Gaige Grosskreutz was aired for the court:
JUST IN - Kyle Rittenhouse didn't shoot until a gun was pointed at him, one of his attackers just admitted in court. pic.twitter.com/PBOr0D6xc5
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 8, 2021
"I was never trying to kill the defendant," Grosskreutz said.
Upon cross-examination, defense lawyer Corey Chirafisi got Grosskreutz to admit he lied to police on several occasions:
Grosskreutz told officers shortly after the shooting that "I dropped my firearm."
The defense said that was a lie because Grosskreutz chased after Rittenhouse and he had just testified he pulled out his gun while running.
The defense got Grosskreutz to admit in court in the lawsuit he has filed against the city of Kenosha, he is demanding $10 million for damages, he failed to mention he was armed when he was shot by Rittenhouse.
Grosskreutz said it is not true to say he chased after Rittenhouse. Chirafisi then showed Grosskreutz a picture of him grabbing his handgun while running toward Rittenhouse. Even after being shown the photo, Grosskreutz still said he was not chasing Rittenhouse.
Grosskreutz initially told police he shouted to Anthony Huber to stop hitting Rittenhouse with a skateboard. When pressed by Chirafisi, Grosskreutz said "with the benefit of hindsight" that is not true.
Yet, on the media side of things, CNN had a cracked-out panel that suggested Kyle benefitted from positive coverage. That’s just not true. Tom Elliott of Grabien has the receipts:
A CNN guest claims that Kyle Rittenhouse was a beneficiary of "a lot of sympathetic media towards him." pic.twitter.com/Csgrha5UgX
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 10, 2021
Joe Biden smeared Rittenhouse in a campaign ad and about 80% of the coverage I've seen has made it seem like the prosecution's case is a slam dunk. CNN is on something stroooooong today. https://t.co/o58ruz3z3M
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) November 10, 2021
MORE: pic.twitter.com/IJtGSc3Tx3
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 10, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse: Joseph Rosenbaum Threatened to Kill Me Before Ambushing Me https://t.co/bYM4yrXfxL
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 10, 2021
CNN's Zoom masturbator, Jefferey Toobin says Kyle Rittenhouse is lucky it isn't "illegal to be an idiot." pic.twitter.com/QPhPNLt1Cx
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 10, 2021
SUPERCUT!
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2021
Media: Why do reporting when we already know Rittenhouse is a terrorist? pic.twitter.com/abebdPyiIs
Online: https://t.co/kazVO21ZZg
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2021
On FB: https://t.co/540h6TC3BL
Youtube: https://t.co/4Vk4OwQA8r
IG: https://t.co/ftQfWaQ7A1
NBC’s David Henderson (@OakCliffLawyer) likens a Rittenhouse attacker to a teacher protecting kids from an active shooter
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2021
“No one would think the teacher is in the wrong. You’d immediately know that the teacher was in the right to defend the students against the active shooter" pic.twitter.com/7oGC67TGVP
We all know the media cannot cover sexual assaults accurately. We saw that with the Duke Lacrosse case. We saw that with the gang rape of ‘Jackie’ that never happened. And now we can add the 2020 riots to the ongoing list of subjects the media just simply cannot write about.
The two people shot by Rittenhouse who later succumbed to their wounds were Joseph Rosenbaum, a child rapist, and Anthony Huber, who was also a rapist and a domestic abuser.