Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, weighed in on the case on Monday despite vowing to stay impartial.
She said she had researched local laws to back up her point.įacebook flagged the post to PolitiFact, which it has a 'fact checking partnership with,' as spreading misinformation, and PolitiFact then published a story that definitively labeled the woman's post as false.
PolitiFact and Facebook seized on a post by Maine resident Trish Beck, who wrote that it was 'perfectly legal' to carry a rifle across state lines, and that it was 'perfectly legal' for Rittenhouse to 'be able to possess that rifle without parental supervision'. However, in August 2020, PolitiFact ruled that it was 'false' to say it was 'perfectly legal' for the teen to carry his gun, as a Facebook user had claimed. How is your ordinary citizen supposed to acquaint herself with what this law says?' 'Now, I have the good fortune of having some experience and a legal education. 'I‘m still trying to figure out what it says, what is prohibited,' Judge Bruce Schroeder said. The judge in the Rittenhouse case yesterday threw out the gun possession charge, ruling that the law is written in such a confusing way that it allows for the interpretation that 17-year-olds can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches. PolitiFact and Facebook have been slammed for an August 2020 'fact check' that claimed it was false to say it was 'perfectly legal' for Kyle Rittenhouse to carry his AR-15 rifle at the Kenosha riot, after a judge tossed out his firearms possession charge on Monday.