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In Reversal, Kyle Rittenhouse Endorses Trump Following Widespread Backlash from MAGA Voters

Catturd: ‘It wasn’t a productive conversation that changed his mind. It was the anger and backlash from the betrayal.’

Published: August 2, 2024
  |   By Chris Karr
In Reversal, Kyle Rittenhouse Endorses Trump Following Widespread Backlash from MAGA Voters

Kyle Rittenhouse has reversed course on his recent refusal to vote for Donald Trump after a widespread backlash from the former president’s supporters.


Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges levied against him in November of 2021 after he fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and shot and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, during a riot in Kenosha in August 2020. A jury determined that the teenager was acting in self-defense.

In a video shared early Friday morning on X, Rittenhouse criticized Trump’s record on supporting gun rights.

“A lot of people are upset that I said that I’m going to be writing in Ron Paul for president of the United States – and that is true, I will be writing in Ron Paul,” he said. “Unfortunately, Donald Trump had bad advisors making him bad on the Second Amendment and that is my issue.”

“If you cannot be completely uncompomisable [sic] on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you, and I will write somebody else in,” he added. “We need champions for the Second Amendment, or our rights will be eaten away and eroded each day.”

“I support my decision and I have no takebacks,” he concluded.

Rittenhouse shared the video and commented, “You must stand by your principles.”



The video, which currently has nearly 7 million views, was met with widespread backlash from Trump supporters, who accused Rittenhouse of not remaining loyal to the former president.

Trump had previously referred to Rittenhouse as “a really good young guy” who experienced “prosecutorial misconduct.”

“I've never in my life, following politics for 40 years, seen a bigger betrayal than Kyle Rittenhouse,” Catturd told his 2.7 million followers. “The Left was trying to put him in prison for life - and MAGA came to the rescue and so did Trump. Almost every dime for his great defense lawyers and every dime he has in the bank is because of MAGA.”

He added: “I blocked the backstabbing, ungrateful punk.”

Other Trump supporters shared similar disdain for Rittenhouse’s announcement.












In a Friday afternoon post, Rittenhouse said he had been persuaded to support Trump.

“Over the past 12 hours, I've had a series of productive conversations with members of the [sic] Trump's team and I am confident he will be the strong ally gun owners need to defend our Second Amendment rights,” he wrote. “My comments made last night were ill-informed and unproductive. I'm 100% behind Donald Trump and encourage every gun owner to join me in helping send him back to the White House.”



Catturd, who said he had been “harder on [Rittenhouse] than anyone,” suggested, “It wasn’t a productive conversation that changed his mind. It was the anger and backlash from the betrayal. No doubt about it.”

Though the reversal was met with praise by many Trump supporters, others ridiculed Rittenhouse for changing his position within the course of 12 hours.

Some pundits, several of whom are noted libertarians, suggested Rittenhouse should be free to vote for the candidate of his choice.










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