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Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger delivered a fiery closing argument on Monday, portraying Kyle Rittenhouse as a callous outsider who showed up in the midst of a riot in order to do some harm; part of a group of “wannabe soldiers” and “chaos tourists” who came ready and looking for a fight. It was a good argument, as was Binger’s opening argument two weeks ago when he declared that he would be able to offer incontrovertible evidence that Kyle Rittenhouse was the initial aggressor that night. The problem for Thomas Binger is everything that’s happened in between his two direct appeals to the jury. The prosecution stumbled out of the gate in the trial. Gaige Grosskreutz was the third person to be shot by Rittenhouse. Grosskreutz admitted under cross-examination that Rittenhouse did not shoot him when he had his hands up after their confrontation. He admitted that it was only after he pointed his handgun at Rittenhouse and moved toward him that Rittenhouse fired. Likewise, a prosecution witness, Ryan Balch, testified that one of the other people shot, Joseph Rosenbaum, said that he intended to kill Kyle Rittenhouse . Other witnesses described Rosenbaum as “belligerent” or “hyperaggressive.” Later, the prosecution called Richard McGinniss, a journalist with The Daily Caller who was reporting from Kenosha that night. He was near Rittenhouse when Joseph Rosenbaum was shot. The prosecutor told McGinniss, “ I mean you have no idea what Mr. Rosenbaum was ever thinking at any point of his life. You have never been inside his head, you never met him before.” McGinnis said, “I never exchanged words with him, if that’s what your question is.” The prosecutor then pressed McGinnis on how he had no idea what Rosenbaum was thinking because it “is complete guesswork, isn’t it?” That is when McGinnis delivered a haymaker, noting, “Well he said (expletive) you, and then he reached for the weapon.” The prosecution’s own medical expert, Dr. Doug Kelly, appeared to confirm that the forensic evidence of soot injuries on Rosenbaum’s hand could be consistent […]
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