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obvious that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. That was obvious from the time the footage

came out. I waited to sort of make a final judgment on it until the prosecution brought forth its case because sometimes you get information that you didn't have before. It turns out the prosecution not only didn't have any information, the prosecution witnesses turned into defense witnesses. But it doesn't matter. People are very invested in this particular case. And when you think about it, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Why are people in the media so invested in this particular case? And you understand why they

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gets very involved in trials like George Floyd and Derek Chauvin, even though there was no

accusation of racism, at least the races match up with the narrative that the left wanted to tell,

which is that black people are routinely mistreated by white cops, even though the evidence does

not show that black people are under the knee of American police throughout the nation

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