Kyle Rittenhouse has shared his interest in having a conversation with President Joe Biden so he can "tell him the facts of what happened."
Last month, 18-year-old Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges after fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during protests which took place in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Demonstrators had gathered in the city on August 25, 2020, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber died after being shot by Rittenhouse, who had traveled into the city with an AR-15 rifle. The teen's defense team painted Rittenhouse out as an upstanding member of society, with a sense of patriotism and desire to protect his community.
And earlier this week, Rittenhouse spoke with conservative commentator Glenn Beck on The Blaze to discuss the teen's trial and the POTUS' reactions.
Per BBC News, President Biden responded to Rittenhouse's not-guilty verdict with the following statement: "While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken."
Last year, Biden also tweeted a video that appeared to link the teenager, without evidence, to white supremacists.
As reported by the New York Post, Beck asked Rittenhouse during their interview whether or not President Biden ever contacted the teenager "to apologize".
"He hasn’t," Rittenhouse responded, adding: "I would like to sit down with the president and have a conversation with him and tell him the facts of what happened."
Rittenhouse also accused Biden of "actual malice" and "defaming" his character.
Elsewhere in the interview, Rittenhouse revealed his desire to enroll at Arizona State University and defiantly said he planned to attend "in-person".
"That’s where I wanna go. I don’t want people to control what I do and where I go to school," the teenager told Beck. "I have as much of a right as anybody else to get an education and go to a school I want to go to."
This comes after The Guardian reports that a small but vocal student alliance at ASU demanded that Rittenhouse was removed from all online classes.
