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Kyle Rittenhouse flip-flops on Trump support
after ‘productive conversations’ with campaign

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Posted By: DVC, 8/4/2024 1:08:21 AM

Kyle Rittenhouse, the conservative campaigner who shot two men during a Black Lives Matter protest nearly four years ago, flip-flopped this week on whether he would be voting for Former President Donald Trump in the November election. Rittenhouse, 21, took to X on Thursday, to declare his intentions to instead write in former Libertarian presidential nominee Ron Paul, who is not running for president. “Unfortunately, Donald Trump had bad advisors making him bad on the Second Amendment and that is my issue,” said Rittenhouse. “If you cannot be completely uncompromisable on the Second Amendment I will not vote for you.”

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He's a young kid, thrust into the limelight without much prep. He reports that he had "productive conversations" with some people and is now supporting Trump. Smart enough to see the error he made after he listened to other views, and in light of new info....he changed his mind. That's a good move after an error.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 8/4/2024 1:16:26 AM (No. 1772145)
Rittenhouse said "My comments made last night were ill-informed.." The sign of a good person is that they can admit an error and change their mind. Smarter than most leftists who will never admit error or change minds.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 8/4/2024 1:32:50 AM (No. 1772149)
Can we let this kid go? He’s young, unwise to the world, and was put in a situation NO ONE could navigate easily. He hasn’t lived long enough to have wisdom yet. He needs to go live his life and pray the crazies leave him alone. Let him go.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: thefield 8/4/2024 1:49:08 AM (No. 1772152)
Comments after article were unsettling. The young man has had his share of the legal system to make a one issue project to over ride everything else.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: thefield 8/4/2024 1:53:22 AM (No. 1772154)
Should name Trump's team the firefighters. They put that potential major fire out, fast.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 8/4/2024 3:00:26 AM (No. 1772155)
He’s a nut case.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: minuteman 8/4/2024 3:48:00 AM (No. 1772159)
Good job Kyle. Welcome back.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 8/4/2024 5:04:07 AM (No. 1772167)
Kyle did what most of us wanted to.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: anniebc 8/4/2024 5:39:11 AM (No. 1772182)
Kyle should keep his mouth shut instead of taking to X declaring his intentions. Nobody was bothering Kyle; he was talking crazy on X.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: chumley 8/4/2024 6:35:42 AM (No. 1772202)
Trump took some bad advice in his first term on 2nd amendment issues. My guess is that he doesn't have any strong opinions one way or the other. Being a New Yorker may have something to do with it. His behavior on that subject did leave me a bit irritated. Rittenhouse is a young guy from the internet generation. Every second he has been alive it has been available and used by millions to show the world their dinner, their kids, their relationships and every mindless thing they think. This sort of thing is bound to happen. There are lots of places in the country with no internet. He should vacation in one of those for a while.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jethro bo 8/4/2024 6:46:52 AM (No. 1772206)
Oh this is only to be expect. Trump isn't conservative enough for some just like Hitler isn't leftist enough for most American Democrats.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NamVet70 8/4/2024 8:16:28 AM (No. 1772234)
Rittenhouse has since given Trump his full support. This issue belongs in the trashbin.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Aspen02 8/4/2024 8:21:29 AM (No. 1772236)
Has he considered Harris's opinion on the 2nd amendment?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: spacer 8/4/2024 8:21:31 AM (No. 1772238)
He may have muffed this one but the decision he made a couple of years ago when it REALLY mattered took some guts. OP is right.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Marzipan4 8/4/2024 10:16:57 AM (No. 1772302)
Yikes are we all becoming so media absorbed that we deify every new character from the news cycles? He is a kid who survived a horrible situation standing up against thuggins and the rhetoric. Let him be a kid.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: mc squared 8/4/2024 11:19:10 AM (No. 1772334)
FTA Rittenhouse is now the Outreach Director of Texas Gun Rights, a group that claims it’s working to “restore” the Second Amendment. Sounds like they need a director with his head on right. Not just after he's vilified on X
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Reply 16 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 8/4/2024 11:22:50 AM (No. 1772337)
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/5/2024 12:22:18 AM (No. 1772674)
Very glad to hear that you straightened yourself out, son. Humility is power. Good for you.
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