Kyle Rittenhouse has backtracked statements he made about former President Donald Trump. The Second Amendment activist who became famous in 2020 after the BLM riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, had concerns about Trump’s stances on gun rights. Issues such as the “bump stock” ban and red flag laws that Trump supported gave many people in the gun community cause for concern. The concern was apparently enough for Rittenhouse to denounce Trump in a video posted on social media after publicly supporting him. Rittenhouse backtracked this video almost immediately, saying that he had productive conversations about his concerns with people in Trump’s team.
Conservative Trump supporters reacted strongly to Rittenhouse’s initial statement, with some calling him a “traitor” to the movement. Mainstream media outlets say Rittenhouse was “bullied” and “trolled” into reversing his comments. The most likely outcome was that a 21-year-old young man made a statement that was not beneficial to his cause and decided to change it.
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