UPDATE: 4:50 p.m. — Following right-wing backlash, Kyle Rittenhouse has stated that he now intends to assist Donald Trump.
On Friday afternoon, he shared a mea culpa on-line stating that after “a sequence of productive conversations with members of the Trump’s workforce and I’m assured he would be the robust ally gun house owners must defend our Second Modification rights.”
He added: “My feedback made final night time had been ill-informed and unproductive. I’m 100% behind Donald Trump and encourage each gun proprietor to hitch me in serving to ship him again to the White Home.”
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Issues acquired bizarre in MAGA world this week after conservative cult hero Kyle Rittenhouse stated he wouldn’t be voting for Donald Trump within the 2024 White Home race.
In a social media video shared early Friday by gun rights activist Dudley Brown, Rittenhouse stated he couldn’t assist the GOP presidential nominee, recognized for his “Make America Nice Once more” motion, as a result of he’s “dangerous on the Second Modification.”
“In the event you can’t be fully uncompromisable on the Second Modification, I can’t vote for you,” Rittenhouse stated within the video. “We want champions for the Second Modification or our rights can be eaten away and eroded every day.”
Rittenhouse, who attempted to launch a media career after his 2021 acquittal within the taking pictures deaths of two individuals and wounding of a 3rd amid racial justice protests in Wisconsin, added that “I assist my determination and I’ve no take-backs.”
Though Rittenhouse didn’t put up the video on to his personal social media pages, he shared Brown’s put up and wrote a handful of extra remarks, comparable to “You must stand by your principles,” “No compromise means no compromise” and “We must hold ALL politicians to the same standards.”
However this was a bridge too far for a lot of MAGA supporters, who had been angered by what was seen as an act of disloyalty to their fearless chief.
Oh, they had been pissed!
In the meantime, different social media customers appeared completely content material to only watch the conservative meltdown.
“MAGA is so mad at Kyle Rittenhouse now they’re pulling up his start certificates to see if he was born a girl, Black, or Indian,” one observer joked.