Kyle Rittenhouse *should,* if this was a rational world, emerge as one of the richest men in America and a media mogul, owning several news outlets outright, after all the lawsuits are done. Of course this *isn’t* a rational world, so who knows. Celebrities, media corporations and politicians *should* be held financially to account for slander, libel and outright lies… but how about “lesser” folks who still have followers? For example, Bearing tears apart a doctor who repeats several lies about Kyle *after* the verdict came down. It’s an entertaining ripping apart of a man (there is some question about that; any man who feels the need to include his pronouns seems likely to be uncertain about it) who could benefit society by shutting the hell up, but would it be possible or practical for some lawyers to look at folk like this with a critical and lawsuit-happy eye?
Behold this little bit of “alternative facts:”
Self-defense from what? From the people he terrorized when he drove to a different state with an AR-style semiautomatic weapon on a Tuesday night when most other 17-year-olds across America were at home, chilling? #KyleRittenhouseTrial pic.twitter.com/gPtGyoQzzf
— Scott Hadland, MD (@DrScottHadland) November 20, 2021
At the very least his license to practice medicine should be under serious question. A man who lies like that seems unlikely to make for a reliable and safer doctor.