Probably the biggest story of the day today has been President Trump’s comments about white supremacists during the debate last night. That was encouraged by the Biden campaign which put out a video on Twitter this morning setting Trump’s comments to images of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville. But as you’ll see, the video also included an image of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot three people in Kenosha, killing two of them:
There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night. pic.twitter.com/Q3VZTW1vUV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020
That clip brought a swift reaction from Lin Wood, an attorney representing Rittenhouse. Wood is the same person who has been representing Nick Sandmann in various defamation lawsuits against media outlets. Today Wood published a series of tweets saying he planned to sue Joe Biden.
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311279601340035072
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311281969943195649
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311287231735386113
Wood’s co-counsel Todd McMurtry also joined in:
https://twitter.com/ToddMcMurtry/status/1311311425692893184
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311290152619307008
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311316431728934913
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311319651947868161
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311322300348862465
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1311336263736348673
Marina Medvin, who is a criminal defense attorney defending Rittenhouse, also jumped on this:
Deliberately defaming a 17 year old boy without even a pinch of evidence to support the derogation is plainly cold-hearted and callous. https://t.co/SWIKLHiPrc
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 30, 2020
She released this statement saying “There is absolutely no evidence, not even a pinch, of this defamatory accusation that my client Kyle Rittenhouse is a ‘white supremacist’ — none. My client is a 17-year-old patriotic, dutiful American boy who came to ‘help people,’ that’s in his own words.” It goes on to say, “There is no evidence of him being a ‘white supremacist.’ This dangerous storyline was concocted by online trolls and then parroted by mindless politicians and pundits. The flagrant defamation needs to stop. They can retract and apologize, or they can deal with Lin Wood in court. It’s their choice.”
Response to Joe Biden's defamatory allegation that my client Kyle Rittenhouse is a "white supremacist" — pic.twitter.com/m2QUJ25rAt
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) September 30, 2020
Fox News asked for comment from the Biden campaign but there doesn’t seem to be any statement so far. I’ll update this post if anything pops up tonight.
