Yesterday, Kyle Rittenhouse said he would not be voting for Donald Trump. He said that “unfortunately, Donald Trump has bad advisers, making him bad on the Second Amendment” and “If you cannot be completely un-compromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you”. Rittenhouse said he would be writing in Ron Paul’s name.
Rittenhouse also said “I support my decision and I have no take-backs”.
Today, Rittenhouse issued a new statement taking back his earlier remarks. He says those remarks were “ill-informed and unproductive” and that he is “100% behind Donald Trump and encourage every gun owner to join me in helping send him back to the White House”.
I have esteem for Mr. Paul myself.
Someone mentioned all the support and money the Trump supporters helped him with, with regards to legal bills.
Others have stated he started losing subscribers by the thousands so backpedaled because of that.
Should’ve stuck to his guns. ( always going for the humor).
Shouldn’t mention I admire him greatly for his self defense skills, but why hide my opinions?
You have to admire somebody who’s so willing to take a stand that he manages to take two completely opposing ones.
On a more serious note, I think this is an interesting development. A substantial portion of Trump’s base are anti-government extremists who see Trump as the chosen one who will drain the swamp and fight the deep state and all that. Rittenhouse’s defection, even if he was quickly persuaded to recant, hints that there may be cracks developing in that base. Perhaps there is a growing sense among this group that Trump may be just another politician.
Trump certainly hasn’t done much that will win him support outside of his base. Which means he can’t afford any erosion within his base.
It genuinely warms the cockles of my heart to see Kyle so unabashedly angling for either Attorney General or Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice gigs in the stygian event of a second Trump term.
I guess I’m missing why I’m supposed to care. The man did something stupid and got lucky to both survive it and get a jury that agreed with the self defense defense. (Which I actually agree with even if he was stupid to put himself in that situation to agree with.)
I believe the pro-gun crowd makes a distinction between bad guys with guns and good guys with guns. Both may be shooting and killing people but they are seen as moral opposites.
Only in Amerika. A cowardly teeny-bopper goes “on a mission”, kills two [Edited] men and then – instead of having his gun license (if any) revoked – he becomes a major political pundit.
What about George Zimmerman? Deputy Sean Grayson? Do we know who they’re endorsing yet?
Because deplorable as Rittenhouse may be, there is a substantial number of people who think like him.
Which is why I feel it’s interesting that Rittenhouse apparently does not see Trump as an automatic choice. It makes me wonder how many other people out on the far right fringe are starting to question whether Trump is really one of them.
