Nicholas Sandmann, who was demonized in 2019 following a viral video that was largely taken out context, encouraged Rittenhouse to sue the media outlets with defamation who essentially convicted him, some of whom deemed him guilty before the trial even got underway.
"Kyle was almost immediately labeled a 'White supremacist' and a 'domestic terrorist,’" Sandmann recently wrote in The Daily Mail.
"To many, my red MAGA hat clearly meant that I was a racist," Sandmann continued. "Kyle wasn't given his day in court by his critics. And neither was I. The attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me. They came quickly, without hesitation, because Kyle was an easy target that they could paint in the way they wanted to."
CNN ended up
settling a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit with Sandmann in January 2020.
NBC anchor Maria Shriver tweeted that it was 'stunning' the jury let Rittenhouse walk
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