The Lawyer Raising Money for Kyle Rittenhouse Nearly Sank His Own Law Firm
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“This dude’s on Twitter like a complete lunatic, trying to rile up people and get money,” a former colleague said.
Will Sommer
Updated Sep. 04, 2020 11:54AM ET / Published Sep. 04, 2020 3:53AM ET

Defenders of accused murderer Kyle Rittenhouse, who is in jail after allegedly fatally shooting two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have insisted that he was merely acting in self-defense.

But Rittenhouse’s attorney, John Pierce, is mounting a more impassioned, perhaps novel, case to win his client’s freedom. Rittenhouse, Pierce argues, is the first hero of a new American Revolution.

“Kyle Rittenhouse will go down in American history alongside that brave unknown patriot at Lexington Green who fired ‘The Shot Heard Round the World’ on April 19, 1775,” Pierce wrote in a since-deleted tweet on Tuesday. “A Second American Revolution against Tyranny has begun.”

Despite not being a criminal-defense attorney, Pierce has become the public face of a growing legal and financial effort-- excerpt, rest at link above --

They don't get it.