Kyle Rittenhouse wants to meet with Joe Biden to set him straight about his claims that the 18-year-old is a “white supremacist.”
Rittenhouse sat with conservative Glenn Beck in an interview in which the 18-year-old was asked if the president had ever called him to apologize for calling him a “white supremacist.”
The teen, who’s recently been found not guilty of killing two protestors and wounding a third at a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter protest last year, insisted that the president “defamed” his character as he was acting in “self-defense.”
“I would like to sit down with the president and have a conversation with him and tell him the facts of what happened,” Rittenhouse stated.
In the presidential campaign a month after the Wisconsin shooting, President Biden, a presidential candidate at the time, used an image of Rittenhouse with the gun used in the shooting as a campaign push with the caption:
“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.”
Rittenhouse claimed that race had nothing to do with his actions. All three victims were white.
The teen also claimed that his lawyer set up the photo that surfaced of him posing with Proud Boys members at the time.
In another part of the interview, Rittenhouse insisted that he’ll be attending Arizona State University, although it’s been met with backlash from current students at the university.
“That’s where I wanna go. I don’t want people to control what I do and where I go to school…I have as much of a right as anybody else to get an education and go to a school I want to go to.”
