Stupid things at 17
He’s not called Don Junior for nothing.
While speaking about 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with homicide in the shooting deaths of two people and the wounding of a third during unrest in Kenosha, Donald Trump Jr. said, “We all do stupid things at 17.”
The president’s son made the comment during an interview with “Extra” host Rachel Lindsay, a former contestant on “The Bachelor.”
Well, lots of us do, yes – things like getting drunk, getting pregnant, scratching the car, failing calculus, not cleaning up the kitchen when asked. We don’t all shoot two people to death.
“If I put myself in Kyle Rittenhouse(‘s shoes), maybe I shouldn’t have been there. He’s a young kid. I don’t want 17-year-olds running around the street with AR-15s,” he said. “Maybe I wouldn’t have put myself in that situation. Who knows? But we all do stupid things at 17,” he said.
It’s not as if the “situation” jumped up and yanked Kyle Rittenhouse into shooting two people to death. It’s also not as if anybody asked him to take an assault rifle to Kenosha, or as if he were employed to do so.
He’s daddy’s son all right.
The Central Park Five were between the ages of 14 and 16. Don Senior famously called for them to be executed. I don’t imagine for a second Junior would have disagreed. Why the inconsistency, hmm?
Oh did Junior forget to say “We white people all do stupid things when we’re 17”? Just an oversight, I’m sure.
That may not be strictly true. Didn’t Don the Elder suggest just a few days before the shootings that the ‘2nd. Ammendment people’ could maybe help do something about the protests?
It makes me wonder who Don Jr. killed when he was a teenager.
Seconding Papito. New police investigation: find out Don Jr’s location and movements at that age, and see if there are any unsolved murders in the area.
Maybe a basement or a large back yard.