8/31/2020

PROTESTS: [Reporter: “are you going to condemn the actions of vigilantes like Kyle Rittenhouse?”]

“We’re looking at all of it. And that was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw. And he was trying to get away from them, I guess; it looks like. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him. And 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 would have been — I — he probably would have been killed… It’s under — it’s under investigation.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 31, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 31, 2020