Fox News host: The Kenosha gunman “felt he was a patriot, going in there to try and protect everybody”

Mark Levin claims 17-year old shooting suspect was not a militia member, while protesters were the “paramilitary mob”

Mark Levin: Kenosha shooting suspect “felt he was a patriot, going in there to try and protect everybody”

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Citation From the August 27, 2020, edition of Westwood One’s The Mark Levin Show

MARK LEVIN (HOST): So if you watch LevinTV tonight — those of who you subscribe can see it tonight, or those of you who have Pluto on your smart TV, the Pluto network, you can see it, too — I do a full interview with our Blaze reporter who's been in Kenosha for four days, including during the shooting.

And he interviewed, before the shooting, that 17-year old kid. And the media are calling him, like, a white supremacist, or militia — he's not those things, he never was. BuzzFeed's out there trying to — the same people who attack all the — that's not who he is, it's much more complicated than that.

He felt he was a patriot, going in there to try and protect everybody. To try and put down the violence. He had wanted to be a cop. And you'll see he's assaulted, he's hit over the head with a skateboard. And they're trying to pull his rifle from him, and he fires off shots. It's just not so black and white, it just isn't.

And as the congressman from this area said, when he was interviewed on Fox — his district includes Kenosha, they have a Democrat mayor there — that these rioters are coming in from Chicago. Chicago’s not that far from Kenosha, Wisconsin. And so what’s happening, ladies and gentlemen, is this is a roving mob, a paramilitary mob, Marxist anarchists.