Famed lawyer Lin Wood said yesterday he will sue Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, the Biden-Harris campaign, and Facebook and Twitter for smearing Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old lifeguard who shot three criminals in self defense in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25.
Wood unleashed a tweetstorm against Biden and his campaign because a post-debate attack ad on President Trump identified Rittenhouse as a “white supremacist” and linked him to supposed right-wing mob violence.
Wood advised the former vice president, himself accused of sexual assault, to put in his hearing aids to listen for footsteps.
The Ad
The ad riffs off Trump’s supposed support for “white supremacists” and “militia” during Monday night’s presidential debate.
When leftist moderator Chris Wallace, who ran interference for Biden during the 90-minute meeting, asked Trump to renounce and denounce the imaginary threat, Trump twice said, “Sure, I’m willing to do that.” Then he told the Proud Boys, by name, to “stand back and stand by.”
Next day, Biden responded with a vicious attack ad that includes images of Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two violent felons and wounded a third gun-criminal in Kenosha during the Blake-Hoax riots.
For a split second, the ad wrongly places Rittenhouse in Portland, Oregon, where a left-wing Antifa thug murdered a Trump supporter. The ad also depicts mobs of torch-bearing marchers, and features an individual wearing what appears to be a German Wehrmacht helmet.
Wood was quick to reply on Twitter:
At about the same time, another Rittenhouse attorney, Todd McMurtry, tweeted that Biden, whose campaign staffers often have trouble with plagiarism and mangling facts, “defamed Kyle Rittenhouse by suggesting on this video that he is a White Supremacist.”
“The #Left just will not stop,” McMurtry continued. “I am working on the retraction demand now for Mr. Biden and his campaign.”
What Rittenhouse Did
Video clearly shows that Rittenhouse was defending himself the night he shot and killed a convicted child molester and a convicted strangler and wounded a gun criminal.
As The New American has reported, the facts are these:
- Child rapist Joseph Rosenbaum attacked Rittenhouse before the 17-year-old shot him multiple times.
- Strangler and domestic abuser Anthony Huber tried to smash Rittenhouse’s skull with a skateboard before Rittenhouse shot him in the chest.
- Gun criminal Gaige Grosskreutz brandished a gun and moved toward Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse shot him in the arm. Grosskreutz then told a friend he wished he had killed the young man.
Yet the radical Left, media, and Twitter thugs subjected Rittenhouse to a smear campaign, calling him a “racist” and a “white supremacist” and a “murderer,” all of which are actionable, defamatory claims.
Wood Warns Biden
Understandably, Wood is on the warpath.
“When I take @JoeBiden deposition on cross-examination, no wire or computer contact lenses will save him.” he tweeted:
Wood also tweeted that the “the only thing that saves Chris Wallace is that he did not use Kyle’s name or likeness. @JoeBiden & his campaign recklessly did.”
A defamation claim against Wallace would fail because the lawsuit would not meet the “of and concerning” rule for defamation; i.e., the defamatory statement must identify the individual defamed. Wallace mentioned Kenosha, but not Rittenhouse.
Wood also zeroed in on a clip from the ad that Biden tweeted that places Rittenhouse in Portland:
Wood also promised to sue Facebook and Twitter.
