Kyle Rittenhouse to sue Joe Biden for falsely claiming he was a White Supremacist.

 

Kyle Rittenhouse. Social media photo.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17 year old who shot three people during the Kenosha Riot, is suing the Joe Biden campaign for falsely claiming he was a White Supremacist. Fox News. Joe Biden posted a video on his Twitter account that implied that Rittenhouse was a racist, though no evidence of him being racist has been released. Even the Anti-Defimnation League said they had examined Rittenhouse's accounts and found no evidence of racism. Rittenhouse and his defense team has claimed self-defense for the shooting that left two people dead and another injured. Rittenhouse's lawyer, Lin Wood, has said he is preparing a lawsuit and demanding a retraction from the Biden campaign. 

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

My Comment:

This is a big deal as Lin Wood, Rittenhouse's lawyer, was the one who represented Kyle Rittenhouse and successfully won cases against the Washington Post and CNN. He has a track record of winning cases like this. If anyone can get a victory in court against the Biden campaign it's Lin Wood and his group. 

Does he have a case in this incident? I think there might be one. The video that Biden post certainly implied that Rittenhouse was a White Supremacist. Putting his photo with a bunch of people that actually are racists certainly implies that Rittenhouse is one as well. And I think it counts as malice as well as if even the ADL says that Rittenhouse isn't a racist then it isn't really arguable that they were mistaken about this.

That being said, defamation cases are extremely hard to win in the United States. Our standards are very high and that can be proven by the horrible behavior of the media. Rittenhouse is helped by the fact that not only is he a minor, he's also facing a criminal case and it's pretty clear that Biden's video could hurt his chances in court. It's not an open and shut case but it is a case and I am guessing that Biden will likely settle just to avoid the embarrassment. 

Still, this case was something that was totally avoidable. They had enough leftover footage from Charlottesville to make their point (which isn't valid anyways) and they had no reason to lie about this. But given how many lies Biden told last night I am not surprised that he did this as well. To the Democrats these days anyone who disagrees with them is a racist, even if there is zero evidence of actual racism.