CLAY: The Kyle Rittenhouse trial is still ongoing, and after yesterday’s testimony from Kyle Rittenhouse, the Blue Check Brigade has lost its mind as they suddenly become aware, “Wait a minute. All of these lies that we spread about Kyle Rittenhouse — calling him a murderer, saying that he was the equivalent of a school shooter,” I’m reading direct quotes from MSNBC and CNN, “a 17-year-old vigilante, a domestic terrorist, a deeply racist murderer”?

Now the attacks from people like LeBron James. I’m assuming that you saw this. I know that a lot of our audience did as well. LeBron came out and said… LeBron is almost 40, all right. He’s 37 years old, I believe, a fully grown man. LeBron James went on Twitter and said, “What tears? I didn’t see one. Knock it off. That boy ate some Lemonheads before walking into court,” with three different smiley faces, emoticons.

Now, LeBron has previously tried to dox police officers. There’s a very strong argument that LeBron has done more as an athlete to divide America than maybe any athlete in the twenty-first century. Colin Kaepernick probably is number one on this list, but LeBron James is up there to a high degree. And a lot of what he has spread are blatant falsehoods. And for him to go after Kyle Rittenhouse — and, by the way, LeBron is just a proxy for a lot of other Blue Check Brigade members, the left-wing woke cognoscenti, if you want to call them that.

BUCK: He’s a famous elite — ultra-elite, really.

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— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 11, 2021

CLAY: To go after a 17-year-old kid who is taking the witness stand and defending his actions is really low even for LeBron, who has set some low floors before.

BUCK: And he’s certainly not the only one. There was Congressman Hakeem Jeffries who said, essentially, lock him up and throw away the key. Here’s what the trial has actually shown. First of all, there have been a lot of very ignorant leftists, Democrats — we can use these terms interchangeably, folks, ’cause the Democrat Party is the left.

There have been a lot of ignorant leftists who don’t care that what they thought about this situation with Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha was untrue, meaning the facts. I’m not even talking about the judgment call of whether it’s self-defense, which I think clearly it was. But put aside that for a moment. They were wrong on the facts.

A lot of people think that he just went and shot people at a BLM rally, like a peaceful protest or something. This is what you’re actually seeing based on some of the social media response here. He actually shot three white guys who were rioters, one of whom was a convicted child rapist — multiple counts, convicted child rapist. These are people who attacked him. It’s clear; the facts show it.

But, Clay, what’s amazing is has a single blue check leftist come out and said, “You know what? I was entirely wrong. I was wrong on the facts and wrong on this case. This was… I disagree with Rittenhouse. I disagree with him having the AR-15,” all the things that they could say, “but I understand that this is not what I thought it was, and I was wrong to say what I did”?

Absolutely not, because it is about the narrative. It is about power. It is someone who stood up against the BLM machine destroying cities, and that upsets the left. That’s really his sin more than anything else is that he took into his own hands the decision to defend himself and a community that the elites and the Democrats abandoned.

CLAY: Not only the elites and the Democrats, so many leaders allowed this to happen all over the country, rather than confront and end the rioting, which was designed to try to embarrass — let’s be honest — President Trump, and in many ways stoked and fomented to try to diminish his chances of reelection, which is still going on, right?

In November of last year, all the plywood was put up in cities all over America not because Joe Biden was gonna win but because the expectation was the rioters, the pillage, the looting, all of it was going to happen again if Trump won. And so this kid — and again, I think it’s important to emphasize this from a legal perspective. You can disagree with the risk that he took to be out in the streets with a weapon and still — and still — believe that he had the right to defend himself.

I’ve said many times on the show, and you have, too, Buck, but for me as a father of three young boys, I would not allow them at all — certainly when they’re minors — to be out protesting, to be out marching, to be out in the streets at all with what we saw going on last summer. But this kid was there, and he was trying to protect businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that were being allowed to burn down, that were being allowed to be looted and pillaged.

And he ended up having to defend himself from three men with violent criminal history backgrounds on their rap sheets. By the way, three white guys, right? I mean, I think there’s a lot of people out there that had no idea. Because they say, “BLM protest” and because they labeled him a white supremacist and a racist shooting minorities.

BUCK: A lot of crazy white communists at BLM protests. Just so everybody knows, if you go to a BLM Portland protest, it’s 90% white guys who watch MSNBC who are pretending they care so much about minority communities by undermining police which, as we know, has had horrible results. BLM has made everything worse for everybody as a movement.

It’s embarrassing how many different companies, politicians, organizations bent the knee to them in 2020 and were terrified of them. There should be a real introspection that comes from all this, because it just made everything worse. It burned down cities. It made the murder rate go up. It has done nothing good.

CLAY: Thousands of people are dead that would otherwise be alive.

BUCK: People are dead who would otherwise be alive. But I think the LeBron James case, he’s not the only one who says incredibly stupid things about specifically Kyle Rittenhouse. Joe Scarborough and his show, he’s a complete idiot. There’s a lot of people that have said dumb things but what you see with LeBron is, it’s interesting.

He’s got 50 million Twitter followers, so I feel like this is why you have to address it. Usually, I would say we ignore stupid actors, athletes, celebrities, but he’s got enough influence. Remember the Ma’Khia Brian case where the young woman was swinging a knife at another girl, one young black girl trying to kill another black girl, and LeBron James went after the police officer, essentially doxed the police officer?

What you see is, it didn’t matter what the facts were there. With Rittenhouse, you have video of people — including the serial child rapist — trying to assault and beat him while Rittenhouse has his rifle in his hands. The facts don’t matter, either. They don’t like the target here. They don’t like the cops; they don’t like Rittenhouse. The facts of these cases, as you see, don’t change the opinions of many people on the left who weigh in on this because they just view it as it’s like a team sport. “Oh, I have to go after the cops. I go after Rittenhouse. Doesn’t matter if I’m lying.”

CLAY: Doesn’t matter even what the facts are, and that is where so many media… This is, to a certain extent, Nicholas Sandmann like, the Covington Catholic standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial story, where — and you know this, Buck. I’ve done television before where you’re supposed to talk about an issue, and you start talking about an issue.

And you recognize that somebody else on television hasn’t done the bare minimum of research, hasn’t even bothered to read a few articles, hasn’t bothered to inform themselves about the facts of a case at all. And that happens a lot, and people go on television and they shoot off at the lip. Calling a kid a murderer before he’s been convicted, first of all, is an incredibly prejudicial statement to make because it implies a crime was committed on its face.

People died but that doesn’t mean that he is a murderer. Certainly, calling him a white supremacist, calling him a racist implies that the people he shot at the BLM protest were targeted based on their race and that he was basically “hunting,” as LeBron James said, and trying to kill a minority at a BLM protest.

All of this is about creating an atmosphere where the community as a whole is so uncertain and terrified of what the results of the case are going to be that jurors are intimidated to potentially give a guilty verdict not based on the facts of the case, but based on they’re afraid what might happen to them and to their communities if they do not find someone guilty.