Axios: “President Trump declined at a press conference Monday to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old supporter of his charged with murder over the shooting deaths of two people during protests in Kenosha last week. ‘That was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape that I saw it. He was trying to get away from them, it looks like it. He fell and then they very violently attacked him. It was something that we’re looking at right now and it’s under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would have been killed.’ Asked whether he thinks armed private citizens should be responding to protests, Trump said he thinks ‘everything should be taken care of by law enforcement.’ He then pivoted to defending police and attacking ‘this horrible left-wing ideology that is permeating our country.'”
“Asked whether he would condemn his own supporters who were filmed firing paintballs at protesters in Portland this weekend, Trump defended them as ‘peaceful’ and claimed that the paintballs were a ‘defensive mechanism.’ He then pointed out that one of the men who had traveled to Portland for a pro-Trump rally had been shot and killed, calling it ‘disgraceful’ and falsely claiming to a CNN reporter that it was ‘your supporters’ who shot him.”