Kyle Rittenhouse has condemned President Joe Biden after the latter linked him to white supremacists.
Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on Friday, November 19, of all five charges related to his August 25, 2020, shooting of three men during a Black Lives Matter protest, spoke to Fox News host Tucker Carlson over the weekend about the case.
In one part of the interview, Carlson claims Biden "called" the 18-year-old a white supremacist and asks Rittenhouse what he "made" of these remarks in light of his acquittal.
Check out what Rittenhouse had to say about Biden below:Rittenhouse responds: "Mr. President, if I can say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial and understand the facts before you make a statement. It is an actual malice and defaming my character for him to say something like that."
He adds: "It's actually quite hysterical how nobody can go back and look at the facts."
The young man also said that it was "sickening" and a "disgrace" that people can "get away" with spreading "lies" about the case.
Back in September 2020, months before Biden would take office as the 46th US president, he wrote on Twitter after a presidential debate that Donald Trump "refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night".
Included in the tweet was a video that showed scenes from the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, as well as the Kenosha shooting involving Rittenhouse.
Soon after Rittenhouse was acquitted, Biden said he stood by "what the jury has concluded," but later issued a statement, expressing "anger" and "concern" with the decision.
He said in the statement: "While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.
"I urge everyone to express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law. Violence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy."
Elsewhere in Rittenhouse's interview with Carlson, the teenager insisted he was not a "racist person" and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
He said: "This case has nothing to do with race. It had nothing to do with race, had to do with the right to self-defense."
He then insisted: "I'm not a racist person, I support the BLM movement and peacefully demonstrating."
