Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) remarked on Newsmax that Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager on trial for fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, Wis., would make a “great” intern.
“He is not guilty and deserves to be found not guilty,” Gaetz said on Wednesday.
“You know what, Kyle Rittenhouse would make a great Congressional intern.” We may contact him to see whether he is interested in assisting the country in other ways.”
“In fact, he’d make a wonderful Congressional Intern,” Gaetz remarked in a tweet.
The lawmaker also addressed the 41-month sentence handed down to “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol events.
He said that the sentencing was the consequence of “hypocrisy and double standards,” citing demonstrators in last summer’s Black Lives Matter marches who “burned our cities, brought violence to our communities, and endangered our fellow Americans.”
The jury in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial was due to begin deliberations on the third day of the trial on Thursday, despite the fact that the request to rewatch the footage in the case prompted his attorneys to file a new motion for a mistrial.
Judge Bruce Schroeder did not decide immediately on the motion, which originated from the defense team’s assertion that prosecutors had provided an inferior copy of a potentially important film.
It was the defense’s second motion to dismiss in a week.
Rittenhouse fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle soon before midnight on August 25, 2020, after Rosenbaum pursued Rittenhouse across a parking lot and tossed a plastic bag at him.
Moments thereafter, Rittenhouse raced down a street and shot Anthony Huber, a Silver Lake, Wisconsin protester.
Count 6 of Rittenhouse’s Rap Sheet — Illegal Possession of a Firearm – was dismissed by Judge Bruce Schroeder.
The judge reportedly reacted angrily to complaints that he had yet to rule on the prior annulment request.
Schroeder stated that he hadn’t had time to read the motion because he had just gotten it and wanted to give the state an opportunity to comment.
“It’s simply terrible that irresponsible statements are being made,” the judge remarked of comments made by law professors in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.
