Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney Tells Tucker They’re Going After Some ‘Large Defendants’ – Opinion

On Monday, Kyle Rittenhouse and Todd McMurtry appeared with their lawyer on Tucker Carlson. McMurtry represented Nicholas Sandmann. McMurtry was a young man, who, at 16, was denigrated by several media outlets and made into a villain for his crime of sitting still wearing a MAGA cap when media tried to discredit all things connected to Donald Trump. Sandmann’s legal team got multiple settlements from media organizations on Sandmann’s behalf. McMurtry currently examines Rittenhouse’s possible legal actions.

Kyle Rittenhouse joins @TuckerCarlsonTo discuss his legal actions against Big Tech, the media.

Tucker: What actions are you taking to stop tech companies making this defamation possible?@ThisIsKyleR“Well, they’re going make me pay the media for all that they did to my” pic.twitter.com/wK0HMaoX0G

— 3sidedstory 🇺🇲 (@3sidedstory) June 7, 2022

“Well, we’re going to make the media pay for what they did to me. I couldn’t live my normal life because of them. I can’t go out into public. I can’t go to the store. It’s hard for me to go anywhere without security. It is hard to do simple things, such as taking the dog to the park. I was unable to do my normal job and it affected my future career opportunities. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to work or get a job because I’m afraid an employer may not hire me.”

McMurtry stated that Facebook was the first company to be examined for legal action. He said that Mark Zuckerberg announced on video that what Kyle had been involved in was “mass murder.” “That’s clearly defamatory,” McMurtry said. McMurtry stated that not only were they making false claims regarding Kyle but they also wanted to sue because they suppressed the truth and took down any posts that could have made the case clearer for the public.

McMurtry also brought up how others in the media had called Rittenhouse a “white supremacist,” a claim that was made up out of thin air and that they would be pursuing those claims as well. While McMurtry didn’t mention Joe Biden, he was one of the most prominent people to push that false claim, even putting out a video that had Kyle featured in it.

As this graphic shows, the media had no liability when Rittenhouse was involved.

SUPERCUT!

Reporting: Media, why report when Rittenhouse is known to be a terrorist? pic.twitter.com/abebdPyiIs

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 9, 2021

Rittenhouse stated that he was harassed by it, and that he needs security.

McMurtry told Fox News that there were “probably 10 to 15 solid” cases against “large defendants,” and that Zuckerberg was at the top of the list, “because he has an outsized voice,” given the Facebook platform.

As for proving damages, McMurtry told Fox News Digital he knows “for a fact that [Rittenhouse] can prove that his job prospects are permanently diminished.”

“Not to mention what they call perpetual reputational harm, which means that Kyle is never going to have an interaction with anybody where they don’t know who he is. And this is going to follow him around for the rest of his life.”

“Everybody’s going to prejudge him in every new interaction that he has with everybody for the rest of his life, and that’s called perpetual reputational harm. … The social media hysteria caused all this because people can’t act reasonably and rationally in certain circumstances,” McMurtry said.

So it looks like they’re finally going to start dropping actions on people. They could include Zuckerberg or Biden. They feel they don’t have any responsibility for the words they speak. Taking action against them would be a big signal to the media — and public officials — that they will be held accountable. Rittenhouse’s reputation could easily be damaged. Just looking on social media, he’s constantly being defamed by people on the left as a “murderer” and accused of false things because of the bogus reporting of the media — and he’s right that he may face questions for a long time over anything he tries to do in life.