'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
we like to give everyone the.
Transcript generated on 2021-11-18.