“Behind #FightBack: Untold Tales of Lin Wood and How Kyle Rittenhouse’s Mother Sees It All”’ (Feat. Wendy Rittenhouse and Dave Hancock)
Before the #FightBack Foundation came to be associated with lawyer Lin Wood’s post-election conspiracy theories, the non-profit group known by the Twitter hashtag had been affiliated with Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse was 17 years old when he was charged with killing two men and injuring a third during protests and riots that broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse claimed self-defense, and #Fightback raised the $2 million that his legal team needed to bail him out on Nov. 20, just weeks after a presidential election whose results Wood repeatedly tried to overturn. In exclusive interviews for Law&Crime’s podcast “Objections,” the teenager’s mother Wendy Rittenhouse and #FightBack’s former executive director Dave Hancock speak out for the first time about their demands that the non-profit conduct an audit of the money that it fundraised. Ms. Rittenhouse claims on the podcast that two of #FightBack’s directors—Wood and conservative firebrand John Pierce—latched onto her son’s case for personal reasons. “They used Kyle to gain money, gain Twitter followers,” Ms. Rittenhouse told Law&Crime. “I felt now they didn't care about Kyle.” This is the untold story of #FightBack, including allegations backed up by multiple on-the-record interviews, police dash cam videos, business records, and recordings provided by Wood's former business associate. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.