Kyle Rittenhouse, 19, is gearing up to launch defamation lawsuits against people and entities who branded him as a white supremacist.
The teenager, who was previously charged with murder after shooting dead two protesters during the Kenosha riots in 2020, is reportedly planning on taking legal action against those who accused him of being a white supremacist.
As Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on all charges in his homicide trial last year, said, Johnny Depp’s legal win against ex-wife Amber Heard is fueling him to stand up to his accusers.
“Johnny Depp trial is just fueling me, you can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!” the 19-year-old wrote in a Twitter post.
His lawyer, Todd McMurtry, has since spoken to Fox News and suggested that 10 to 15 “large defendants” will face lawsuits.
While it is unclear who exactly will be named in these suits, one of the names includes Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, who allegedly called the young man a mass murderer.
“This was not a mass murder incident. It was clearly factually false,” McMurtry said in an interview with Fox News.
“To call somebody a mass murderer is seriously defamatory. And then to use the power of social media to basically… censor any views that would take opposition to that mass murderer statement is a serious effort to destroy his character.
“It was seriously mistaken and seriously defamatory.”
He added: “Facebook has an outsized voice, they can do a lot of damage, as compared to somebody maybe who has a small blog with 100 subscribers. But we’re going to look at everything that we have access to and that’s been published, and decide which ones are actionable.”
The news comes months after Rittenhouse revealed that The View’s Cenk Uygur and Whoopi Goldberg would be among the people named in his lawsuits.
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