{"id":1050279,"date":"2021-11-23T23:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T04:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1050279"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T04:58:30","slug":"rittenhouse-didnt-know-i-posed-with-proud-boys-it-was-set-up-by-my-former-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rittenhouse-didnt-know-i-posed-with-proud-boys-it-was-set-up-by-my-former-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"Rittenhouse: Didn\u2019t Know I Posed with Proud Boys &#8212; It Was &#039;Set Up by My Former Attorney&#039;"},"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\">34<\/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%2Frittenhouse-didnt-know-i-posed-with-proud-boys-it-was-set-up-by-my-former-attorney%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=1050279&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\/GettyImages-1236442534-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kyle Rittenhouse said Tuesday on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cBanfield\u201d that he was unaware the people with which he posed for a picture in a Wisconsin bar last&nbsp;January were Proud Boys.<\/p>\n<p>Reading a viewer\u2019s question, anchor Ashleigh Banfield said, \u201cYou have stated that you are not a racist, but there\u2019s video footage of you using hand signs that are used by groups that are considered many to be white supremacists. Why have you associated with members of groups like the Proud Boys? Why have you used hand signs that are commonly associated with white supremacy?\u201d<\/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>Rittenhouse said, \u201cThat\u2019s a good question. I didn\u2019t know that the OK hand sign was a symbol for white supremacy, just as I didn\u2019t know those people in the bar were Proud Boys. They were set up by my former attorney, who was fired because of that, for putting me in situations like that with people I don\u2019t agree with by having them set up for security without telling us their background. If I had known that they were Proud Boys, I would have said absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banfield said, \u201cSo, to be clear, which attorney put you in that bar?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse said, \u201cJohn Pierce.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Banfield asked, \u201cHe took you to that bar?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse said, \u201cHe arranged it. He wasn\u2019t there, but he set it up and arranged it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banfield asked, \u201cYour attorney arranged for a then-17-year-old to go to a bar to meet those people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse said, \u201cFor them to do security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he had second thoughts about the meeting, Rittenhouse said, \u201cI definitely don\u2019t think it looked good to hang out with people who are now known to be Proud Boys. I definitely wouldn\u2019t do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse added, \u201cI found out they were Proud Boys when I saw the headlines. I thought they were just a bunch of, like, construction dudes based on how they looked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pamkeyNEN\">@pamkeyNEN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Rittenhouse said Tuesday on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cBanfield\u201d that he was unaware the people with which he posed for a picture in a Wisconsin bar last\u00a0January were Proud Boys. 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