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Lorraine Ali: Tucker Carlson canonizes Kyle Rittenhouse the patron saint of right-wing violence

During an hourlong sit-down on his Fox News program Monday night, Tucker Carlson canonized the deadly actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen who brought an AR-15 rifle to a Black Lives Matter protest and killed two unarmed men — painting the young man as a brave American hero, an innocent victim and a "sweet kid."

"He's not especially political," said Carlson of Rittenhouse, who of reckless homicide in the slaying of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and intentional homicide in the death of Anthony Huber, 26, as well as three more charges stemming from his actions sparked by the shooting of for already heated questions around the threat of vigilantism, the definition of self-defense and gun control.

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