Kyle Rittenhouse has said he intends to take legal action against media outlets and celebrities that have called him a 'murderer'.
Speaking to Fox News, Rittenhouse says several organizations and people were misguided in their coverage of the Kenosha incident and mislabeled him.
He revealed he will sue talk show host Whoopi Goldberg and Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur both of whom continue to call him 'a murderer'.
Basketball star LeBron James also accused Rittenhouse of pretending to cry after the 18 year old broke down on the stand during his double murder trial.
Rittenhouse, was a white supremacist who shot and killed two men during during a street protest in Kenosha in 2020 .
He testified that he acted in self-defense.
Last November, the 18-year-old was found not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and other charges, and walked out of court a free man.
Speaking on Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Monday night, Rittenhouse said he wanted to hold major media and entertainment figures 'accountable' .
'What about the people who called you a white supremacist? It makes it pretty hard to get a job for the rest of your life if you are a white supremacist. Will you be responding to them?' Carlson asked. 'Absolutely. We're going to hold everybody who lied about me accountable, such as everybody who lied called me a White supremacist,' Rittenhouse said in response. 'They're all going to be held accountable. And we're going to handle them in a courtroom.'
'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.'
At the time, Rittenhouse's lawyer, Mark Richards, said he was dismayed by Biden's depiction of him as a white supremacist.
'I've never had a case, I don't think I ever will, where within two days or three days of one another, you know, the President and the presidential candidate comment on it. And both of them had such different beliefs,' Richards said.
'President Biden said some things, I think are so incorrect and untrue — he is not a white supremacist. I'm glad that he at least respects the jury verdict.'
'We are looking at quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes, Whoopi Goldberg [pictured] is on the list. She called me a murderer after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that, and there's others,' Rittenhouse told Carlson.
Rittenhouse fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle after Rosenbaum chased Rittenhouse across a parking lot and threw a plastic bag at him shortly before midnight on August 25, 2020
Moments later, as Rittenhouse was running down a street, he shot and killed Anthony Huber, 26, a protester from Silver Lake, Wisconsin
'I don't want to see anybody else have to deal with what I went through. So I want to hold them accountable for what they did to me, because I don't want to see anybody have to go through what I went through.'
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