Shortly after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in November 2021, Whoopi Goldberg said on “The View” that she still believed he was guilty (via Fox News). “Even all the excuses in the world does not change the fact that three people got shot. Two people were murdered. To me it’s murder. I’m sorry,” Goldberg said. Now, Rittenhouse is considering filing a lawsuit against the host and actor, he said on Fox News‘ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on February 21. “She called me a ‘murderer’ after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that”.
Goldberg isn’t the only prominent figure Rittenhouse has his eyes on, either. Rittenhouse explained he has launched an initiative, named The Media Accountability Project, in an effort to prevent “lies” from being disseminated in the media in similar cases. “I don’t want to see anybody else have to deal with what I went through,” he told Carlson. “So I want to hold them accountable for what they did to me.”
Rittenhouse said he has compiled a list of “politicians, celebrities [and] athletes,” but mentioned only Goldberg and “The Young Turks” founder Cenk Uygur by name. Many celebrities reacted negatively after Rittenhouse’s trial, including actors Mia Farrow and Viola Davis, singer Lizzo, “Star Trek” star George Takei and comedian Chelsea Handler. “We’re going to hold everybody who lied about me accountable, such as everybody who lied called me a white supremacist,” Rittenhouse said.
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