CNN's Brianna Keilar spoke to former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah this Monday, who slammed conservatives for making Kyle Rittenhouse into a hero after his acquittal on charges related to the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of another during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.
"I'm a little afraid of my friends on the right — and I am a Republican — lionizing him and sort of making him this martyr for the cause," Farah said.
Farah went on to say that Rittenhouse "is being used as a pawn right now," in reference to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's interview with Rittenhouse after his acquittal.
"Yes, it was self-defense, but he killed people. And that is going to come to bear for him and be very challenging. And rather than kind of using him to earn cheap political points, maybe it's time to move on," Farah said.
"I actually thought Joe Biden's statement was very effective, which was to say 'we've got to allow the rule of law to play out, it did in this case, but it's also time to heal and move on.' That's what we should be doing," she continued. "We shouldn't be putting Kyle Rittenhouse on TV. We shouldn't be making him a hero. He's not. He got off, and we need to move on and the state needs to heal."
Watch the video below:
.@Alyssafarah joins @NewDay discussing the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict:\n\n \u201cI do worry about my friends on the right lionizing him\u2026and rather than using him to make cheap political points maybe it\u2019s time to move on."pic.twitter.com/I8Yqa5PQfQ— Brianna Keilar (@Brianna Keilar) 1637586186
