UPDATE: 4:50 p.m. — Following right-wing backlash, Kyle Rittenhouse has said that he now intends to support Donald Trump.
On Friday afternoon, he shared a mea culpa online stating that after “a series of productive conversations with members of the Trump’s team and I am confident he will be the strong ally gun owners need to defend our Second Amendment rights.”
He added: “My comments made last night were ill-informed and unproductive. I’m 100% behind Donald Trump and encourage every gun owner to join me in helping send him back to the White House.”
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Things got weird in MAGA world this week after conservative cult hero Kyle Rittenhouse said he would not be voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 White House race.
In a social media video shared early Friday by gun rights activist Dudley Brown, Rittenhouse said he couldn’t support the GOP presidential nominee, known for his “Make America Great Again” movement, because he is “bad on the Second Amendment.”
“If you cannot be completely uncompromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you,” Rittenhouse said in the video. “We need champions for the Second Amendment or our rights will be eaten away and eroded each day.”
Rittenhouse, who attempted to launch a media career after his 2021 acquittal in the shooting deaths of two people and wounding of a third amid racial justice protests in Wisconsin, added that “I support my decision and I have no take-backs.”
Although Rittenhouse didn’t post the video directly to his own social media pages, he shared Brown’s post and wrote a handful of additional remarks, such as “ You must stand by your principles ,” “ No compromise means no compromise ” and “ We must hold ALL politicians to the same standards .”
But this was a bridge too far for many MAGA supporters, who were angered by what was seen as an act of disloyalty to their fearless leader.
Oh, they were pissed!
Meanwhile, other social media users seemed perfectly content to just watch the conservative meltdown.
“MAGA is so mad at Kyle Rittenhouse now they are pulling up his birth certificate to see if he was born a woman, Black, or Indian,” one observer joked .
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