Rittenhouse Suggests Fired Lin Wood In excess of QAnon, Election-Fraud Theories

• Kyle Rittenhouse criticized his previous legal professional, Lin Wood’s, for backing conspiracy theories.
• Rittenhouse explained he fired him more than “all this QAnon and election fraud things.”
• Rittenhouse has been feuding with his previous law firm because remaining acquitted of murder.

Kyle Rittenhouse claimed that he fired his former attorney, Lin Wood, simply because of his belief in QAnon and election-fraud conspiracy theories.

Rittenhouse manufactured the assert in an job interview with NewsNation that aired on Tuesday, amid a authorized feud with his former lawful staff in excess of a $2 million bail fund. 

Final week Rittenhouse was acquitted of murder and attempted homicide immediately after shooting lifeless two adult men in the course of anti-racism protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, final year, and wounding a third. 

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All through the interview, host Ashleigh Banfield questioned about his claim in a Fox News interview the earlier night time that Wooden and John Pierce, his other lawyer, sought to gain from his case by misusing a lawful defense fund.

“Did she [Rittenhouse’s mother] fireplace him simply because she found out that the dollars was in the pot but was not currently being set in direction of bail?” Banfield requested.

“We fired him,” Rittenhouse mentioned, “for the reason that he was, like, heading on with all this QAnon and election fraud stuff and just stuff we will not concur with.”

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Rittenhouse went on to say that fears in excess of Wood’s character had been an additional reason for the firing. 

“He’s insane… how he thinks he’s God and he just claims all these bizarre points. Like ‘we’re going to continue to keep that boy in jail because you can find not gonna be any… civil or felony situations come the election,’ which is just total insanity,” explained Rittenhouse. 

Wood turned down Rittenhouse’s promises in a just one-line e mail to Insider.

“Kyle’s allegations are false. There is not just one fact to aid them,” he claimed. 

Wood played a notable part final calendar year in pushing President Donald Trump’s phony claim the election was stolen from him as a end result of a huge plot by Democrats and their allies. He also has ties with the QAnon conspiracy-theory movement. 

He informed The Everyday Beast on Monday that Rittenhouse’s claims against him were owing to “misinformation” from people today close to him. 

The dispute among Rittenhouse and his former attorney centers on a $2 million bail fund elevated by Wood and Pierce.

Wood has claimed that the funds is rightfully his as he used $700,000 on Rittenhouse’s legal expenses, and acted as a guarantor for loans made to the bail fund.