Kyle Rittenhouse on Facing Life in Prison at 17: “It Was Insane” | DSH #1778

I was charged with five felony counts, one of the highest count in first-degree

intentional homicide, reckless homicide, tempted homicide, reckless

endangerman. You add all the charges up, life imprison without parole plus

300 years. It's insane. And I feel like when it's such a public case like that,

they want to make an example out of you. Oh, absolutely. And thank God there were

people out there fighting for me in the public. In the public eye, such a

Charlie Kirk. And then what happened on September 10th, I'm motivated me to get

back into the fight for Charlie Kirk because his voice was silenced and I

never want to see that happen to another person ever again. Wow, so you you

were done with social media. You were, if that Charlie Kirk didn't happen, you

were ready to just quit.

Okay guys, here at Amfest Day 2 with Collar in house. Let's go, man. How's it going Sean?

Thank you for having me on the digital social hour. Absolutely, man. This is your

first time at Amfest or have you been to some of the past? No, I've been to a few

Amfest in the past. I spoke in 21 right after my acquittal. Charlie had me on

stage with him. And it was an honor to be able to speak beside him and Jack

Bolshevik and a few other people. Let's go. How's life been lately? I'm sure it's

been a lot of ups and downs since that incident. Yeah, absolutely. I'm over the

past couple of years. I've been a strong advocate for the Second Amendment.

I recently took a hiatus, but after what happened on September 10th, it's

motivated me to get back into the fight. I'm stronger than ever because we are

all Charlie and we need to do over him. Well, not be silent. You said you took a

hiatus. How long was that? What went on with what? What did that happen? Yeah, so in

January, I moved to Florida. I originally lived in Texas for a while. I moved to Florida.

And sorry, I dissolved in my social media as a little bit and just living a

little bit more private life out of the spotlight. Not getting involved in politics

as much and eventually moving to Colorado to receive some mentorship from Victor

Marks and then what happened on September 10th, motivated me to get back into the

fight for Charlie Kirk because his voice was silenced and I never want to see

that happen to another person ever again. Wow, so you were done with social media.

If that Charlie Kirk didn't happen, you were ready to just quit.

Absolutely. I was done with social media, but then I saw his voice

kids silenced and it wasn't okay with me. Wow, that's crazy. Because you were

so in the media every day, you were blowing up and then it go from not to just quitting.

Absolutely. And then recently, because it's been a long battle of getting back into the

fight because I want to do it correctly and I want to do it as strong as possible to carry

my voice stronger, to get people to go out and vote, to be more politically active. So it's

taking me a couple of months to get there. I created a new ex account and it jumped up to 64,000

followers and 24 hours. She's 21 million views on my first post and under 12 hours.

I made that decision right then and there that I'm going to fight for Charlie.

So you deleted everything? I deleted everything and I'm at 270 on Instagram, 270K on Instagram

and 64,000 on X. And you're not scared of hate anymore? I trust in the Lord.

During my little hiatus, I met my wife, my beautiful wife who's sitting right behind you.

Hello. And I'm just one of the best things I could have ever happened to me and she's been by my side

through it all. Let's go. Did you meet the dog too, Otis, or Milo? Milo. No, I've had Milo for

the last five years. I got him after Wallow's still on trial for my PTSD and a couple others.

Dogs helped with my mental health tremendously. Absolutely. Yeah. Milo is my best friend. I have two

tattoos of him. I want to just fall one of his face. He's getting excited as he's talking about it.

He hears me talking about him. He's getting a little excited. I had crippling anxiety,

mental health depression, getting my first dog. Actually, I wouldn't say cured, but it helped a lot.

Absolutely. I mean, there would be times where I just want to sit there and break down, but because of

my dog, he'll just cheer me up and he's there for me and he's specifically tasked trained to help

with my PTSD. Yeah, that's incredible, man. You had such a tough fight at a young age too.

Absolutely. I mean, it's life, but God only puts obstacles in your way that you can handle.

Did you have good, because I know you went on Tucker's show. Did you have good guidance,

good mentors guiding you through the process? Yeah, absolutely. One of my biggest mentors is

Mark Richardson, of course, your opposite. They're my two attorneys. I live and die by their advice.

It is there are some of the closest people to me. Natalie Whisco, one of my other attorneys,

are some of my closest advisors and I take their advice to the heart.

Incredible. Yeah, because you were facing some serious time, right? Some serious charges.

Yeah, I was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.

And how old were you? I was 17. Oh, my God. Not even an adult yet.

Yeah, no, I wasn't an adult. I was charged with five art, originally six counts, but I was

charged with five felony counts, one of the highest counting first-screen intentional homicide,

reckless homicide, tempted homicide, reckless endangerment. You had all the charges of life

in prison without parole plus 300 years. It's insane. And I feel like when it's such a public case

like that, they want to make an example out of you. Oh, absolutely. And thank God there were people

out there fighting for me in the public, in the public eye, such as Charlie Kirk. He was a big

disorder and advocate. Yeah. I mean, when I was going through my trial and Tucker Carlson and

other people that helped push the truth, Jack Post, the big being one of them. And it was just

incredible to see the amount of support. And I don't want to say right-wing media, but the

conservative leaders in our country actually pushing back against a less, less narrative,

because there are so many, so much disinformation about my case that people still don't know anything

about. I feel like alternative media has really helped. Yeah, alternative media, such as your so,

the digital social, yeah, digital social hour is pushing on there are other things for people to

see because nobody believes in the news anymore. Nobody wants to go watch CNN or MSNBC or any of those

communist news stations. I'm I resorted to watch and podcast to get my information because to be

honest, that's where some of the most accurate information is because unlike certain journalists

that go to school for journalism and work at these big news stations, you actually take the

time to research the person you're talking to or about the issue you're talking about. Yeah,

like a lot of journalists that are reading off a teleprompter for what Mr. Soros is telling them

that Mr. Soros now Mr. Soros is buying some podcasts. I don't know if you saw that. Yeah, I did see

that. He bought the you know the hot one show where they eat the wings. Yep. He owns that one now

and a few other big ones. Well, that just shows because he's saying that people are more influenced

by podcasts instead of news media. Yeah, there's way more down there. He's trying to get his

foot in the door for podcasts. That's why we need to stay strong as conservative leaders and just

keep pushing and fighting against that left wing narrative. I know he's sent some major outlets

against you. I know you used to do a couple of them. Trump's suing a few of them. Yeah, what they

did to Trump was insane. I'm charging him with felonies throwing him in prison. The election fraud we

saw is just honestly one of the most disturbing things I've seen in history. Yeah, part of him

he's like kind of thankful that he's present now and not then honestly because I think he ended

up working out. Absolutely. I mean, we see a lot of people see what happened with Trump and

Georgia and Fulton County and other in Florida or how they went after him politically and that

radicalized a lot of people. They a lot of people are just fed up with how the narrative was being

pushed and how he was being targeted just because he was running for president wanting to do the

right thing. Did you get to talk to him about that Trump bondage being targeted by the media?

Yeah, so I've actually never spoken to president Trump about that issue, but I have spent some time

with him specifically after my acquittal. I got to go to Mar-a-Lago and had a private meeting with him.

That's incredible. It was really an honor just to meet him and spend some one-on-one time with him

and he is one of the nicest people I've ever met. I've heard that a lot. Yeah, man, he is one of

the most genuine people as well. I don't say that about a lot of people, but he truly is extremely

genuine and what you see is what you get. Yeah, which I'd rather have a straight shooter than

some politics. I mean, you had Joe Biden-Auto pen who had no idea what he was talking about and

then you had Kamala Harris who was running for president, but I don't know if you saw the new

polls how Trump who legally cannot run for another turn, is that 5% of Kamala Harris, is that 4%,

I find it hilarious. She wants to run again, which is crazy. I don't think there's a snowflake

chance in hell that she wins an election. New someone beat her, I think. New someone beat her,

but we need to get JD Vance elected in 2028. Yeah, I want to see that Vance new some debate.

That'd be a good one. Yeah, that would be a good one. Because new some can talk, Hayden, I love him.

Yeah, I think it would be a good debate and I think we'd learn a lot, but I know I've watched

some of Gavin knew some interviews and he does speak well, but you see the communism in California,

so he may be a good speaker but he's a terrible leader. Do you think California has the worst

gun laws in the country? I would say they're definitely up there. If I had to say some of the worst

gun laws in the country would have to probably be New York. New York has some of the tightest gun laws

they have some of the yeah, it's a lot easier to get a gun in California than it is in New York.

Okay, they're pretty up there and I would just recommend not living in either of those states.

And because they're so strict to get guns there, what are their gun violence stats? Do you know,

like yeah, so you look at the stats of like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,

they have the highest murder rate per capita and then you look at other states such as

like Texas and where people can have guns and defend themselves and people are less likely to

commit crimes and less likely to commit violent acts if they think the person is armed,

not even knowing if the person's armed but just think violent attack is less likely to occur.

That's why it's so important especially for young women, I mean my wife, I tell her she

doesn't have a choice, she carries a pink glock 43 acts every single day, but especially

women these days, they need to be strapping from. She's 49, 95 pounds, there's no way she's going to

be able to fight a 6 to 200 pound dude 100% and she needs an equalizer and a 9 mil is a great equalizer

for that. There's this new technology floating around that people cannot stop talking about,

it's called the light system. Before you roll your eyes, it's not some gadget you strap on or

supplement that promises the world. Every once in a while I come across something that actually

stops me in my tracks and the light system is one of those things. This isn't a supplement,

it's not a biohack, it's a full on energy environment built to help your mind and body synchronize,

recharge and operate at a higher level. It uses light patterns, color frequencies and coherent

energy fields, all the stuff that your body naturally responds to to create a coherent,

energetic field around you. People are saying they feel more clear, more centered, more alive in

their environment and honestly the science behind it is fascinating. As I've seen a lot of

wellness tech but the numbers coming out on this new study of the light system are actually insane.

Researchers measured human chic cells before and after sitting in front of the system and get

this. A 30 minute session boosted cellular conductivity by 61%. The study even showed increased

conductivity in isolated DNA which is associated with stronger structure and better repair pathways.

The result, more clarity, more balance and more alignment. You can save $500 now if you go to

the lightsystems.com and use discount code Sean. Another shooting on a campus today, do you think

campuses should have more armed security? I think, so if you look at Texas, we have campus

carry in Texas. That was a build I was recently passed, we have a license to carry, you can carry

a gun and Texas college campuses. I haven't heard of any campus shootings at any of the colleges in

Texas. I may be wrong on that but as of reading from when it happened, I do not believe there has been.

That's interesting. That's very interesting. That's very interesting.

shootings at a Texas campus since that has happened to mass shooting. But then absolutely I think we

need to put armed securities in our schools and are everywhere with our colleges. We need to

protect our children because why are we protecting politicians with guns but we can't even protect

children with guns? On a college level, it makes no sense to me even high school but you're paying

so much in taxes and tuition. In certain states, you're just paying for them to push the trans narrative

and other narratives against other people. Why can't we do that to hire some veterans to protect our

students? Let's give veterans some jobs. Absolutely. A lot of them are dealing with mental health

issues when they get back. They got no work. Absolutely. I know hundreds of veterans that

be willing to volunteer their time to go and stand guard and watch over the children at school because

the children are our next generation. We're in our generation right now and we're our current

voices but we have a new generation up and coming. Do I think there's a lot of problems with

the new one coming up? Absolutely. It's quite funny but we need to protect them. We need to guide

them in the right way. For sure. What do you think of the Bondi beach shooting in Australia?

A couple days ago. Look, if we had guns I could have been. If there were guns in Australia,

that could have been neutralized a lot quicker. That is the one where the guy came up and on the beach

killed like 11 people. Yeah. Two guys. Yeah and it just shows people that want to commit violence.

They're going to commit violence. They're going to get the tools necessary and it's not fair to

private citizens and other people to not have the right to protect themselves because that's exactly

what it is. It's not having the right to protect their own lives against a mad man with a gun

who's trying to take everybody out. So, like I said, the best thing to counter something like

that is an equalizer and a nine-millimeter is a great equalizer. It blows my mind that people

are still trying to ban guns. Yeah, I mean, look, the second amendment's in place to protect the

first amendment. So, I don't understand a lot of the gun bands. I think it's a political narrative

and I think it's just to try to turn us into China, Russia, or another communist state and slowly

disarm us. Mao took the guns, Hitler took the guns. Yeah. They're trying to take the guns from us.

The government would have even more power if the guns were bent. Absolutely. And I am a limited

government person. Same. So, the more power the government has, the less safe we are, the less right

to a half. It's also not going to stop guns being out there because look at the war on drugs.

That was a fail. Yeah, absolutely. The war on drugs, the cartel, there's always going to be violence

and guns out there. You're not going to remove hundreds of millions of firearms off the street.

It's just not realistic and it's not even in the realm of possibilities. You see in

Chicago and these other liberal states, they do these gun buybacks, but none of these gun buybacks

work. Really? There's still violence. And honestly, a great trick is to just get a bunch of cheap

receivers and 3-D print them. Yeah. Take them to the gun buyback and get your $50 gift cards.

That's the best thing. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, you get 3-D print a gun and it actually works.

There are, with certain filaments, you can't 3-D print a firearm. It's not difficult.

There are certain laws pertaining against it. I know you can also buy build kits like 80% arms. You

can buy a 80% arm and they're completely legal in some states to have a un-serialized firearm

as long as you build it personally. You keep it as you've got it for yourself. Now, you brought

up 9 millimeters a lot. What about the assault rifle debate? Do you see any issue with those?

Well, we don't have assault rifles in this country unless you're military or have an FFL. We have

semi-automatic rifles. For semi-yeah. Yeah. Look, a semi-automatic rifle saved my life without one.

I wouldn't be here today. I think it's a tool that everybody should have the right to use. I hunt

with, I pick hunt with AR-15s, 556 and sitting at home right now in my home defense rifle is an AR-15.

It's a tool. Got some land, huh? I don't have land. I have friends with land. That's a trick. Don't

buy land. Get friends with land. What do you think that's a good self-defense for the house?

Gun. For me personally, that's what I prefer. I would say use what you're comfortable with. Get

training. I'm shotguns are always great options, but that is just what I personally have for my

in the digital era with all the haters. I need to get some training for sure.

Hey, come out to Texas. I'm a licensed firearms instructor with the SCCA now. Get some

lead down range and get you trained up. Let's go, baby. Yeah, I need down there. It can't be too

safe these days. Absolutely. You walk in the door. It's on site, right? I mean, it depends on where

you go. There's certain areas I won't go. I won't go to San Francisco without security. I won't

go to Chicago without security. Especially you. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I get countless

death threats each day. Still? Yeah. Wow. It's been like five years. I mean, we saw what Ryan

Sheed that liberal said that day. How are you? I'll read it to you. He tweeted it. He put out a

tweet that I never heard of. He's going to be searching for me, looking for me at Amphus.

What is here? No, no, no, he's not allowed in here. Wow. That's so fresh. Yeah, it's 100%

at the right, but his compulsive disorder of being obsessed over me hundreds of tweets he's

ever posted. You got to get a restraining order. It's clinically insane. The violence he's pushing

against me and other people that are here is diabolical. Yeah. He has over I think 300,000

followers on X and those are all people he's pushing towards me to cause violence. Jesus.

Him putting something out. We're going to be looking for you. Coward in the house.

It's not just him saying he's going to be looking for me, but it's him mobilizing other people

that come and look for me and potentially cause harm. That's not. I mean, look at who killed

Charlie, right? Absolutely. I left this. Absolutely. I gave furry lover. Yeah, we got to be.

There's a SSRI link to my shooters, too, didn't you see that? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we saw what

happened in Nashville and saw what happened with Charlie Kerf, these trans shooters. We saw

some of these Trump shooters, the two Trump assassins who were tied to these left wing

trainees. It's all trans-related. We need to scan the trans. We need one fight back against

the trans agenda and two. We need to protect our children and just outright ban it because

one is discussed and two is not bad before. You think the trans movement is like a mental health

issue? It's 100% of mental health issue and I feel bad for a lot of them because I believe

that they got the help they needed. They could be better humans in society and contribute

a little bit better and we wouldn't have to worry about them potentially trying to assassinate

us. I know my, so this girl I hooked up with in college changed her gender and I highly

think it's just the environment she was in. Yeah. I went to a liberal college and people were

supporting it. Well, funny stories. I was reconnecting with one of my close friends from Illinois

other day and he was telling me about someone we used to work with that he was dating and she went

to a university of Illinois and she was taking an arts class and she was one of the sweetest girls

you'll ever meet and then she was indoctrinated by that college and now she thinks she's a dude.

Oh my god. Yeah, so these universities are dangerous basically. Yeah, I think the first step is

polling funding for any universities that push this narrative because look we're here to get

an education not learn what our gender is because God decided that way before we were born.

Yeah, and there's some in Cali that will like really promote it, right? Yeah, I mean in some states

I'd probably get thrown in prison for saying what I'm saying. I know in some countries and like

specifically the UK I'd probably get thrown in prison for saying what I'm saying. Oh yeah,

UK is, I don't think I'll ever go there. Yeah, I was supposed to go there for an event but

I don't think I would go to the UK either. I'd been invited to speak that college out there

and do a debate and I just did not want to go to the UK. I know it's two people. There's one

at this event that's been detained as soon as they landed in the UK. Yeah, I can almost guarantee

if I went there I'd be probably detained almost immediately. You do a lot of debates though.

It depends. I speak at a lot of universities for a turning point. I've gone to Memphis which was

a very interesting event because a lot of people at the University of Memphis it shows that they

go to University of Memphis and they can't really debate. It's interesting seeing the narrative

that some people try to accuse me of. There's people that think I've killed black people. There's

one lady that I'm in Texas when I was helping out with an Andy Hopper race. Fear in Texas go vote

for Andy Hopper in the primary election by the way but what's saying I killed children and

not a lot of people know the back records of the people who attacked me what they're who they

were as people and what their history was like. Well people only remember the first headline they see.

Yeah, even if you get cleared what you did they don't remember that. Yeah, they read black lives matter

rally not BLM riot. Mostly peaceful but fiery protests and I'll tell you I was there who's a war

zone. I mean BLM since been exposed since you are your incidents so I feel like you've been

vindicated. Yeah, I mean I'm still being sued for $20 million. By who? By the families of the

deceased. What? Who attacked me? Five years. Yeah it's been five years and believe it or not we

just actually had traction the last a week in this lawsuit. They've been drawing on after for

five years of them just demanding a bunch of nonsense and I'm sure this is going to get played

in depositions and they're going to ask me about the questions on this interview but look I'm not

worried I defend in myself and it's all on video and I have no money for them to take. That's

unreal bro. BLM literally got exposed. I mean we saw the fraud with BLM we saw the leaders

buying mansions and taking all the money and not actually using it to support black people.

No. It was really a disgrace to the entire movement. Dude it was what they did. Honestly I donated

it because I believe it at the time. Yeah I mean absolutely black lives do matter. Everybody's

lives matter and it's equal but I think it pushed a lot of black people to the right seeing that

get exposed. 100% being completely honest. Yeah it made them look worse honestly. 100%.

But dude thanks for your time. I'll be supporting you. Where could people find you and

go? Yeah all my social medias are written house 2a. You can find me there. It's awesome.

Thanks for your time. Thank you for having me with Milo. Thank you. See you guys.

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