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2021-11-18 | 🔗
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host makes the case for why Kyle Rittenhouse is not receiving a fair trial
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Good evening and welcome to Tucker Karl Sorenson tonight, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has just sent the jurors home tonight to think about the trial for yet another day. So far, deliberations in this case have lasted about twenty hours. In a normal proceeding, we would have the Jurys decision in about twenty minutes. The essential question in this case is really clear. Did Kyle Rittenhouse have good reason to believe dangerous men were trying to murder him, and the answer is also clear and unequivocal. Yes, he did these people are definitely trying to murder, Kyle Rittenhouse, so rittenhouses response to that was the definition of self defense. Desperate split second decisions made in the face of uncorrespondent wanted aggression in an attempt to save his own life thats. What happened? Every person who testified on both sides of the trial confirmed that no honest person doubts it. Kyle Rittenhouse never should have been charged in the first place, yet he was the reason he was is very simple from this. The beginning. This case was
driven by politics and ever since its been tainted by government, deception and incompetence, for example, were just learning now relevant new evidence. In the case, really, this is evidence a jury should have seen before it began deliberation, obviously, on the basis of all known facts. Needless to say, this is not how our Lyle legal system is supposed to work. This is what we learned. One of the charges, Kyle Rittenhouse faces, felony count for recklessly safety of a man. They never identified video footage from the night of August. 25Th shows this man kicking Kyle Rittenhouse in the face and knocking him down. Rittenhouse responds by firing his rifle twice and both times he missed tonight. The jury is considering whether Rittenhouse acted recklessly when he fired those two shots and yet and Heres the point. The jury has no idea as it deliberates who this man is, the prosecution never identified him. Prosecutors claimed they didnt know his identity and they had no way to find it out.
So that means that rittenhouses defense attorneys never got to cross, examine this man or introduce. I any evidence about H, behavior that night thats, not a small thing. According to the daily mail new reporting today that Mans name is Maurice Free Land, free land has admitted that he attacked Rittenhouse moments before another man. A domestic abuser called Anthony Huber started bashing Rittenhouse in the head with a skateboard who is Maurice free land according to the daily mail. Is he a criminal, disorderly conduct and damage to property? One case woman reported to authorities that Freeland threw her to the ground and kicked her in lower right, rib cage. What we learned here, among other things, is that every single person, Kyle Rittenhouse, shot or shot at on August 25th in Kenosha had a lengthy and violent criminal record that seems relevant, but the jury doesnt know it. Thanks to unethical behavior by the prosecution he never had to testify in court and yet
apparently Freeland told prosecutors. He wanted immunity before he would agree to appear on the stand of the assistant district attorney. In the case, Thomas Binger refused to provide that. That means the state knew all along exactly who Maurice Freeland was, but they withheld that information from Kyle Rittenhouses lawyers. As a result of that Kyle Rittenhouse was deprived of his constitutional right under the confrontation clause to challenge the accuser in open court thats not supposed to happen, it cant happen and thats, not the only relevant evidence that was withheld from Kyle Rittenhouses lawyers during this trial were about to show you some drone footage. It aired on this show the night of August 21st, two thousand and twenty. At the time we were interviewing a law called John Pierce, who was then representing Kyle Rittenhouse. Take a look at the pictures on the right hand, side of your screen, thats really a tertiary charge anyway, because let me ask you about the first shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum, the second two one man was shot in the arm. The other was shot in the mid section and died
both of them clearly and its obvious on video attacked Rittenhouse, but the first shooting was Rittenhouse fired upon before he fired did he believe he was fired upon? What were the circumstances of that shooting so that drone footage that you just saw was right there that aired on this show has become part of the Rittenhouse case. The prosecutors claim that footage shows Kyle Brian House raising his rifle in provocative manner, accused arsonist, Joshua Zoo Minute is itziminiski. The child rapist began chasing written house after Rittenhouse pointed his rifle at Ziminiski. Apparently, the pedophile, the honor of accused rapist thats, their claim Joshua Ziminiski, like Maurice Freeland, never testified in this case. Why? Because prosecutors made sure he couldnt they charged him with arson and delayed his trial, so he would not be a dot b available to testify
in the Rittenhouse trial by the way- and this is relevant, be too Ziminiski brought a gun to the riot and fired a shot before Kyle Rittenhouse ever pulled his own trigger. How is that for relevant jurors? Never got to here. Joshua Ziminiski, explain that so Heres the problem. The drone footage we aired on this show was never provided to Kyle Rittenhouses Defense team. Instead, they got a Blurrer lower grade copy of the tape. Look at the images you are seeing on your screen right now. You are seeing the high quality image on the bottom and the low quality image on the top. There is no comparison between the two. The defense had no way to analyze the high quality footage during the trial and provide it to their video expert. They couldnt verify the footage, is accurate or make any arguments about what it showed they had to accept the prosecutions version. Now the defense only realized this after one of the prosecutors admitted it out loud apparently, by accident, he admitted that his version of the drone footage was quote much clearer than the footage
the defense had watch. Our version is much clearer. Our version is much clearer. According to one of rittenhouses lawyers, the defense copy of the drone footage was nearly three times less clear than what the prosecutors have. I confirmed that this file that he said was directly provided to the state crime lab was an eleven mill by the mega by the file. Not four. The information contained in the flash drive has was over double the size, almost three times the size as to what was emailed to me. Every other piece of evidence from the state crime lab in this situation has been provided to us via drop box drop Box, provides an exact forensic copy of what they have the file title name in this situation should have been exactly the same as the one provided to the state. It was the exact same copy.
The file name was nowhere near similar, so how to account for this? Well, the prosecutors explained they just got this footage in the last minute a few days ago. They said they immediately sent it to the defense and they had no idea. The defense would get such a low quality copy of it, a technical glitch. They said that doesnt make sense actually, and the judge seemed to understand that he prosecution waited more than a year to get this footage. The defendant wants, first attorney after he was charged. With this case, appeared on an interview appeared alongside the high definition version of this footage. Tucker Carlson has got it. You could have subpoenaed it. No, we didnt know that until I think today it doesnt matter what the explanation is. There is no excuse for this in a criminal trial. The prosecution has a legal obligation to obtain evidence in a timely manner and then provide it to the defense the moment its available
thats the law in this case the prosecution waited until after the trial began to give the defense a low quality version of the drone footage you have to ask: is this deliberate prosecutorial misconduct and actually, as a legal matter, it doesnt matter Kyle Rittenhouses constitutionally entitled to see all the evidence against him at the trial and he didnt. So by definition, Kyle Rittenhouse is not getting a fair trial by the way outside the courtroom, as well as inside yesterday, as hundreds of National Guard troops idled nearby a fight broke out within protesters within earshot of jurors. Today we learned a freelancer for MSNBC, followed the jurors bus to the courtroom. He blew through a red light to keep up with the bus. Why? What would a quote journalist follow jurors before they have reached their verdict? Well, the judge seemed to understand exactly what was going on this morning. He banned anyone associated with MSNBC from the courthouse the police when they stopped him, because he was following at
a distance of about a block and went through a red light, pulled him over and inquired of him what was going on and he gave that information and stated that he had been instructed by Ms Byron in New York to follow the jury bus. I have instructed that no one from MSNBC News will be permitted in this building for the duration of this trial. Now you dont have to like Kyle Rittenhouse or what he did to see this as scary and wrong and a threat to all of us. It doesnt matter who you voted for or what you thought of Donald Trump thats irrelevant withholding evidence in a criminal trial. Intim intimidati jurors. These things not just threaten threaten justice, which is the best thing we have in this country. What is interesting is who has no problem at all with any of this, and we cant help but notice that the very same people who
love pointless foreign wars and devastating drone attacks on civilian populations think that Kyle Rittenhouse should rot in prison. Now watch this guest on CNN, one of the sillest dumbest people in public life. Explain that actually rittenhouses attempts to save his own life at a Biden rally filled with violent criminals was quote political violence. I think we are in a fighting situation Don. I think what we are seeing is growing political violence. You have Kyle Rittenhouse on trial right now for taking the law in his own hands and shooting several people. Remember you had mass shootings during the Trump presidency at Walmart at El Paso and Synagogue in Pittsburgh. You had the storming of the capitol of people who had gallows with them on January. Sixth and Republicans are really playing with fire. So you have got to wonder if people who talk like that- and there are an awful lot of them all of a sudden believe what they say on television did they watch the trial? Did they understand the facts? Do they even care? What really happened that night in Kenosha
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Transcript generated on 2021-11-18.