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The first interview off of his acquittal, Kyle Rittenhouse sat down with Fox News host Tucker Carlson where he explained that he isn't a racist.

The Daily Beast got an advanced video of the interview set to air Monday night. According to the excerpt, Rittenhouse said that he absolutely supports Black Lives Matter and that the people he killed had nothing to do with race.

It has only been a few days since Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by a Wisconsin jury. Those angry about the verdict took to the streets and have continued to stage protests across the country.

Along with one of those protests in Chicago came large guns. A video shows two men dressed in all black and tactical gear carrying long guns walking beside and leading the protesters' march in the streets. Instead of being foes, these gunmen were there to protect the protesters from people like Rittenhouse being in a position to shoot them again.

While OJ Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend, the families of the two victims sued Simpson for the slaying. The requirements necessary for a civil case that would hold Kyle Rittenhouse accountable are much lower than a criminal murder trial.

Rittenhouse has accepted donations from many different sources, and now that he has been acquitted, GoFundMe has agreed to put his legal defense fund back on the site. That could help provide the millions necessary to pay to the families of his victims.

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi tweeted about an analysis of the tweets from the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse came largely from outside of the United States.

Figliuzzi said that the researchers took a sample of 32,315 pro-Rittenhouse hashtag tweets on Nov 19-20. The data showed 29,609 tweets came from Twitter accounts that disabled geolocation. "Of those, 17,701 were listed as "foreign", but a deep scrub revealed most of those were in Russia, China, and the EU," he said.

On one of the busiest travel days of the year with Thanksgiving approaching, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spent her Sunday morning tweet-storming at her followers that a Democratic-led "race war" is coming and conservatives need to hang onto their guns and "Protect yourself with the full armor of God."

According to the Republican lawmaker, "The radical Marxists in this country" by which she means Democrats, are coming for everyone's guns following the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal with Taylor Greene adding, "They will stay on their lying message constantly about 'angry white men are a threat to black lives.'"

During a panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show," former Republican adviser Tara Setmayer went on an extended rant about Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) after he applauded the not guilty verdict for Kyle Rittenhouse and then boasted to his followers they should "be armed, be dangerous."

Asked about his comments by host Jonathan Capehart, Setmayer went off on the party she used to work for.

In an interview with CNN on Friday night, the attorney who successfully defended Kyle Rittenhouse in court after he shot and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha last summer, ripped into the teen's previous attorney for trying to use him as a cash cow.

Speaking with host Chris Cuomo, attorney Mark Richards at one point noted that he didn't agree with America's gun laws -- including a quirk in Wisconsin which allowed his client to own the weapon used in the shooting -- telling the CNN host, "To me – and I know people will go nuts when I say this – but there's too many guns in our society. And that might seem like a hollow statement coming from me."

Saturday afternoon, the editorial board of the Wisconsin State Journal released a scathing editorial calling the not guilty verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial "chilling" and asserting that he should have been punished after killing two Black Lives Matter protesters.

Leaving little doubt about how the board viewed the outcome, they titled their piece: "Kyle Rittenhouse verdict sends a chilling message to Wisconsin and the rest of the country."

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Cross Connection" on Saturday morning, trial attorney Katie Phang predicted the defendants in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery will be found guilty and then will face federal charges.

After host Tiffany Cross ran footage of Travis McMichael unable to make the case for himself for self-defense, Phang told the host that the fate of the defendants is sealed after the testimony.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after a jury in Wisconsin found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty after shooting and killing two Black Lives Matter protesters, a former New York prosecutor suggested that families of the victims could file civil suits with an expectation of success.

Speaking with host Kendis Gibson, Charles Coleman said it would be up to the families if they want to pursue Rittenhouse further.

Speaking with CNN's John Berman on Tuesday morning, two legal experts expressed surprise at the strong closing argument presented by the prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case and said the jury may not let the young man who pleaded self-defense after killing two BLM protesters off the hook.

With the jury to be winnowed down from 18 to 12 via a lottery on Tuesday, Brooklyn Law School Assistant Professor Alexis Hoag told the "New Day" host: "The prosecution really delivered."

Frank Figliuzzi, the former FBI Deputy Director for Counterterrorism, anticipates the lawsuit Alex Jones lost on Monday is just the beginning as Americans take action against conspiracy theorists who falsely claim that their slain loved ones were crisis actors.

Jones was sued by Sandy Hook parents after relentless attacks against them alleging that they were lying about losing their children in the Connecticut mass shooting that killed 20 children and six adults.