{"id":1015733,"date":"2021-11-15T16:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015733"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T21:13:37","slug":"white-house-condemns-vigilantes-as-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-condemns-vigilantes-as-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-wraps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Condemns &#039;Vigilantes&#039; as Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Wraps Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-condemns-vigilantes-as-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-wraps-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1015733&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Kyle-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House on Monday condemned \u201cvigilantes\u201d armed with \u201cassault weapons\u201d as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial wrapped up in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can reiterate for you is the president\u2019s view that we shouldn\u2019t have, broadly speaking, vigilantes patrolling our communities with assault weapons,\u201d White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Psaki said she would not specifically address an ongoing trial, but indicated that Biden was not supportive of individuals defending their communities.<\/p>\n<p>She reacted to the Rittenhouse trial on Monday after Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked her about Biden\u2019s assertion on social media that he was a \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1142857142857\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q3VZTW1vUV\">pic.twitter.com\/Q3VZTW1vUV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1311268302950260737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Rittenhouse\u2019s mother Wendy criticized Biden for doing so, accusing him of defaming her son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so angry for a while at him and what he did to my son, he defamed him,\u201d Rittenhouse\u2019s mother <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/kyle-rittenhouses-mom-says-biden-103745693.html\">said<\/a> in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki did not respond when asked if the president believed Rittenhouse was a white supremacist.<\/p>\n<p>She said the White House understood that \u201cemotions were high\u201d as the trial wrapped up, but that Biden wanted Americans to come together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur message, I would say, is president Biden ran on a promise to bring Americans together and to turn down the temperature on the angry divisive rhetoric and actions from the past four years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said the federal government was in contact with state and local officials and was ready to offer federal law enforcement support if needed after the verdict was delivered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hopeful any protests are peaceful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Monday condemned \u201cvigilantes\u201d armed with \u201cassault weapons\u201d as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial wrapped up in Wisconsin. \u201cWhat I can reiterate for you is the president\u2019s view &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}