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Today we continue our coverage of the political persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense plans to call several more witnesses Thursday, including a doctor and Kenosha police officer — a day after the teenager took the stand in his self defense trial.

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Tucker Carlson: Kyle Rittenhouse's trial is the most bizarre court proceeding ever caught on camera | Fox News https://t.co/Wj6tHePS1e

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) November 12, 2021

Judge stops trial.  Rittenhouse’s prosecutor, an attorney, has a problem with a witness getting an attorney.

https://twitter.com/atlasshrugs/status/1458862662767591439?s=20

[Editor’s note: Rosenbaum was indicted on 11 counts of child rape of five boys 9-11, charges included anal rape, and he was a lifetime registered sex offender at the time he attacked Rittenhouse and tried to steal his gun.]

U CAN'T MAKE THIS UP "convicted child rapist Joseph Rosenbaum was released from a mental hospital & went directly to join the mob that was burning downtown Kenosha. AT the riot, he saw #KyleRittenhouse & immediately threatened to KILL HIM …"https://t.co/HM7wkWrYdJ

— #DEFENDtheUNBORN ! 👶👣👼🌹🥀🎵🎶✝️⛪🙏♥️😎🇺🇸 (@PRAISETRIUNEGOD) November 11, 2021

“Victim?”

Rosenbaum was indicted on 11 counts of child rape of five boys 9-11, charges included anal rape, and he was a lifetime registered sex offender at the time he attacked Rittenhouse and tried to steal his gun.

But you lefties LOVE pedophiles so of course you’re mourning

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) November 11, 2021

“Kyle Rittenhouse clearly tried to de-escalate the situation’

12:44 pm: Commentator, citizen journalist Frank Hernandze takes the stand — ‘Antifa and the rioters were goi gto head to to head against the poilce. Antifa had their sheilds out and throwing rocks at the police. ‘ ‘Rioters grabbing concrete slabs, hurling them …. Rioters agaitated against the citizens protecting property.’

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Kenosha officer confirms no unfired rounds were found at the scene This means Gaige Grosskreutz lied when he said Kyle Rittenhouse re-racked the rifle Confirms the only unfired round was found from Grosskreutz’s .40 bullet from his Glock

BREAKING: Kenosha officer confirms no unfired rounds were found at the scene

This means Gaige Grosskreutz lied when he said Kyle Rittenhouse re-racked the rifle

Confirms the only unfired round was found from Grosskreutz’s .40 bullet from his Glock

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 11, 2021

12:30: Law enforcement office takes the stand.

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this is such a powerful image. pic.twitter.com/Ny3GdPgsXw

— kim possible facts (@kimpossiblefact) November 11, 2021

Binger asking the defense expert to play the video was not helpful to the state's case.

— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) November 11, 2021

Black's testimony about the LIMITS of video was fantastic. Should have been the FIRST question.

Educational and engaging. After 20 minutes of boring video questions, I hope it hasn't lost its effect.

— Rekieta Law (@RekietaLaw) November 11, 2021

Noon: Kick in Kyle Rittenhouse’s face came first:

Kick came first. It also doesn’t matter – you are allowed to defend yourself against imminent violence https://t.co/nSsSQrtk2K

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 11, 2021

More:Sen. Johnson Probes FBI Aerial Surveillance After Rittenhouse Defense Suspects Foul Play In Kenosha Case

11:15: Judge allows expert video testimony.

11: 05: Prosecution objects to analyzing video – unbelievable.

Binger is trying to prevent the jury from knowing the entire interaction lasted only 2.5 minutes. Objecting to expert witness testimony

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 11, 2021

10: 35 AM: Video expert takes the stand for the defense.

One of the prosecution's arguments to impugn Rittenhouse is that it was improper for him to have been there at all, yet citations against protesters who violated the curfew that night were dismissed, meaning the propriety of them being there was upheldhttps://t.co/29efTWGk38

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 11, 2021

SUMMATION OF YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS.

Yesterday Judge Schroeder accused Prosecutor Binger of improperly trying to introduce testimony that he had earlier said he was not inclined to include. Rittenhouse attorney Mark Richards also suggested Binger might be attempting to provoke a mistrial. “I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant’s post-arrest silence. That’s basic law. It’s been basic law in this country for 40 years. 50 years. I have no idea why you would do something like that,” Schroeder told Binger (Fox News). The New York Times wasted little time, going after the judge, claiming “He has acknowledged that some topics raised in pretrial hearings are new to him, and said that until this case, he hadn’t heard of the Proud Boys, which had offered to support Rittenhouse” (Twitter). From Seth Mandel: dropping oppo on the judge. Tells you which way ppl think the trial is going (Twitter).

The Kyle Rittenhouse Prosecutor’s Case Comes Down To Rioting Good, Self-Defense Bad

The bulk of Thomas Binger’s questioning of Rittenhouse on Wednesday assumed that unless a person has physically touched you, there is no reason to protect yourself with force that may prove deadly.

By Eddie Scarry, The Federalist November 11, 2021:

If you follow the prosecution’s case against Kyle Rittenhouse, the only logical end is the assertion that self-defense is almost never an option and visiting the scene of a riot is only okay if you are there to burn property.

There are other facets to lead prosecutor Thomas Binger’s arguments — that Rittenhouse, 18, was in illegal possession of a gun, that he showed up in Kenosha, Wis., that night of violent rioting because he was pursuing danger, and that he could have easily done things differently. But the bulk of Binger’s questioning of Rittenhouse on Wednesday relied on the assumption that unless a person has physically touched you, and unless you were at the scene for reasons not in line with others present, there is no reason to protect yourself with force that may prove deadly.

Rittenhouse face chargers for the murders of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, as well as the intentional homicide of Gaige Grosskreutz. It’s not disputed, and it’s on video, that Rittenhouse shot all three, and only Grosskreutz survived.

It’s also on video and backed up by eyewitness testimony that each of the three men was running after Rittenhouse and making attempts to take his gun. Grosskreutz, who was armed at the time, himself said he tried grabbing Rittenhouse’s AR-15.

Binger played the videos, which the jury has seen multiple times already, and acknowledged in questioning that Rittenhouse was being chased that night in August 2020. But his emphasis has been that: 1) Rosenbaum, the shooting of whom set off the whole episode, never physically touched Rittenhouse and 2) that Rittenhouse’s presence, by its very nature, was needlessly provocative.

The absurdity was captured in one specific exchange between Binger and Rittenhouse.

Binger: “So, you saw someone who was trying to put out a fire, who got assaulted?”

Rittenhouse: “Yes.”

Binger: “But, if you’re going to help people, why would you expect anyone would try and hurt you?”

Rittenhouse: “I don’t know. Somebody did try to hurt me and I was helping people.”

Binger has apparently never prepared for an unexpected disaster. He may not even buckle his seatbelt, I can’t be sure.

Rittenhouse testified that he was in Kenosha that night at the request of a car lot owner who had been looking for men to protect his business, which had previously suffered damage from nights of rioting. He said he brought his AR-15 and a medic kit for the purpose of patrolling the area and offering care to anyone injured.

He said that beforehand he had seen destruction done to the city, where his father lives and where Rittenhouse had been working as a lifeguard. That’s why he brought the gun — in the event that he needed it for his own protection. There had been, after all, reports of physical assaults against police and a business owner in addition to the property damage.

But Binger adopted a tone to suggest he was utterly confounded as to why anyone would show up in Kenosha to offer aid while armed with a gun.

Binger: “I asked you why you brought the gun. You said you needed it for protection. I said, ‘Protection against what?’ You said that you didn’t think you needed protection. I’m confused. Can you help me understand why you’re telling us you needed a gun for protection but you didn’t think you needed protection?

Rittenhouse, who is apparently lightyears ahead of Binger in IQ: “I brought the gun for my protection but what I was saying is I didn’t think I would have to use the gun and end up defending myself.”

Binger is presumably also confused by people who purchase home insurance. Why do they need that unless they plan on setting their own homes on fire?!

The prosecutor was equally stupid in making the case that Rittenhouse was at fault for being in a place he had the right to be, but shouldn’t have been.

At one point, Binger asked, “You know that you’re running into a crowd that is not friendly to you, right?” and also, “Were you surprised a crowd would react that way when they just saw you shoot someone?”

The implication is that Rittenhouse, having shot someone who was chasing him, should have known that all of this was coming because he made the choice to show up at a riot.

He did make that choice, but so did everyone else who showed up to loot, vandalize, and torch private and public property. Rittenhouse’s reason for showing up — to limit the damage — just happened to be unpopular. That doesn’t make him a criminal. It makes him a dissident.

When you reach the logical conclusion of the prosecution’s case, that’s Rittenhouse’s crime. He was in a dangerous place where the rioters — otherwise known by Binger as “the good guys” — didn’t want him, and therefore Rittenhouse was the instigator.

It’s preposterous. The jury probably knows that.

Previously:

• RITTENHOUSE DEFENSE REQUESTS MISTRIAL
• WATCH LIVE: KYLE RITTENHOUSE TESTIFIES
• Rittenhouse Trial Witness Says Prosecutors Asked Him To ‘Change’ His Statement To Police |
• Judge Yells At Rittenhouse Prosecutor As Defense Threatens Mistrial: “I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant’s silence”
• Trial Halted After Kyle Rittenhouse Breaks Down On The Stand: “I WAS DEFENDING MYSELF”
• RITTENHOUSE ‘Trial Should Be Over’: Attacker He Pointed Gun At Rittenhouse’
• OMG WATCH! Rittenhouse Trial Should Be OVER Immediately
• RITTENHOUSE CASE COLLAPSES
• NEW VIDEO clearly shows for the first time that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense and this case never should have been brought to trial
• Prosecutors cannot refer to men Kyle Rittenhouse killed as ‘victims,’ judge rules
• NEW VIDEO: Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Acted in Self-Defense #FreeKyle

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