Donald Trump Jr. offered a poor response to the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday when asked about the Kenosha vigilante’s alleged killing of two anti-racist protesters and the shooting of a third as he roamed the streets with an AR. Now, I don’t know about you guys, but when I was 17-years-old, I didn’t do that. I can say that I made poor choices when I went to bars with my friends, though. In contrast, Junior told a Black host on Extra in regard to the gun-humping teenager going across state lines while possessing an illegal firearm that “We all do stupid things when we’re 17.”
Junior went on the show to promote his book Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and the Democrats Defense of the Indefensible, and that in itself is ironic since the president’s eldest son has been afforded every privilege possible as both a white man and being born into a wealthy family.
The show’s host Rachel Lindsay asked Junior about the Black Lives Matter movement, and from there, things didn’t go down well.
Rachel asked, “What are your thoughts on Black Lives Matter and the movement that is currently going on in the country?”
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Junior replied, “The phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ is obvious. No one in America says anything else.” That’s when Rachel disagreed, saying, “Yes, they are,” but Junior insisted, “No one that I know. No one that I know.”
It’s almost as if Junior never met his father before.
Don went on to call BLM a “very good marketing message, it’s a great catchphrase, but that doesn’t back up a lot of the political ideology behind it.”
Rachel Lindsay pressed on and asked why the president didn’t speak to Jacob Blake’s family when he was in Wisconsin, but instead, spoke to the police department.
The host took things a step further and asked, “But why hasn’t the Trump Administration or President Trump condemned what happened in Kenosha with Kyle Rittenhouse… coming across state lines and… murdering two people and injuring another [at a protest]?”
Trump Jr. said, “We’re waiting for due process. We’re not jumping to a conclusion… If I put myself in Kyle Rittenhouse[‘s shoes], maybe I shouldn’t have been there. He’s a young kid. I don’t want young kids running around the streets with AR-15s… Maybe I wouldn’t have put myself in that situation — who knows…? We all do stupid things at 17.”
“It’s a little beyond stupid,” Rachel shot back, to which Trump replied, “Really stupid — fine. But we all have to let due process play out and let due process take its course.”
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Here’s the difference, folks: When an alleged ANTIFA supporter recently shot and killed a pro-Trump counter-protester, no one on the left set up a donation page to help the accused with his legal defense. In Rittenhouse’s case, hundreds of thousands of dollars poured in to help him after he allegedly murdered two people and injured another. It’s not hard to say that murder is wrong — unless you’re Donald Trump Jr.
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