Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight in retrospect, its remarkable just how dishonest how thoroughly and intentionally dishonest the media coverage of the Rittenhouse story turned out to be. It was a lie. He was not a white supremacist. He was never in the militia, never crossed state lines. With a firearm, Rittenhouse didnt go to Kenosha looking for trouble. His father lived there. He worked as a lifeguard in Keno shacked on August twenty five last summer, he went downtown to stand guard over a car lot. Heres the context. The night before police in Kenosha had done nothing at the mobbed and burned businesses, including a car lot all the way to the ground, so they needed rittenhouses help. They were looking for a 17 year old to help. If that gives you some perspective

as Rittenhouse stood, there rioters threatened his life, then they attempted to kill him in the end. Rittenhouse shot three people as he tried to run to police. In fact, all three men were white and all three had serious criminal records. We could go on again. The media coverage was from beginning to end a tapestry of lies. If you watched the trial last week, you know that, but what about Rittenhouse himself? What is he like? Apart from his testimony in court, few Americans have ever her his voice over the next hour? Well, let Kyle Rittenhouse speak for himself. You can make up your own mind, but before we start one observation which we cant resist, making its hard to ignore the class divide between Rittenhouse and the media. Rittenhouse comes if the least privileged sector of our society during high school. He worked as a janitor and a cook to help support his family. Last year he got into college at Arizona, state and hes, very proud of it in the world. Kyle Rittenhouse

grew up in its not a given that kids go to college, not even close. During the considers of our long conversation. Rittenhouse struck us as bright decent, sincere dutiful and hard working exactly the kind of person. Would you want many more of in your country hes, not especially political? He never wanted to be a symbol of anything. Rittenhouse just wanted to keep violent lunatics from setting fire to cars in the American. He grew up in. That was considered virtuous, so if Rittenhouse seems a little bewildered at points thinking over the last year and what happened to him, thats, probably.