During the Friday night edition of “Cuomo Prime Time,” host Chris Cuomo took his anger out on not just Kyle Rittenhouse, who a jury had found “not guilty” that same day, but the state law on self-defense which enabled the jury to find him not guilty. As NewsBusters’ Nicholas Fondacaro highlighted, Cuomo had a lot of lousy takes. What should be particularly concerning, though, is his utter disregard for state laws on self-defense.
Cuomo just kept going after the Wisconsin law regarding self-defense, which, by the way, is a state Cuomo does not have a connection to, since he lives in New York:
This prosecution did not prove the defendant provoked this specific situation with these three men. It didn’t. And therefore, under this law, Rittenhouse had no duty to retreat, which is huge. When you take that out of self-defense, you are creating an incredibly low bar and making it way too easy to kill.
No duty to retreat — and by the way, to be fair to the facts here, he did retreat. He was running away, okay? He had no duty to exhaust all non-lethal means, no duty to fight them off, to kick, to try anything else. He had no duty under the law to do that. If the jury thought it was reasonable for him — another aspect of the law that you haven’t been told enough about — it’s not what they would do. It’s not what the reasonable person would do.
Cuomo then went on to refer to Rittenhouse as “a chump,” as if that has any effect on the young man’s rights or affected the state law he used as his defense.
Fredo calling this brave young man (or anybody actually) a chump is another perfect example of psychopathic projection.
Both Coumos are our public enemies they both need to retire and just shut up . No one wants to know what they think or care move on to some deserted island please.
The pot calling the kettle black?