Kyle Rittenhouse released a new book called “Acquitted” on Amazon Kindle, but despite having a radicalized alt-right fan base, the book is not performing well in the market.
Rittenhouse, still not even old enough to buy alcohol, launched the project on the second anniversary of his acquittal on all charges related to the killing of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, in August 2020. The two men were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer when he fatally shot them with a semi-automatic AR-15-style assault rifle. Also wounded by Rittenhouse that night was Gaige Grosskreutz, 26.
The book details, from his perspective, his fears on that night at a 17-year-old, maintaining he acted in self-defense, his arrest, prison, the media, and the trial, where he was acquitted on Nov. 19, 2021.
“I never wanted to be a public figure. I was homeless as a small child and raised in government-subsidized housing. My goal was to be a cop or a paramedic,” Rittenhouse says in a blurb on the online retailer’s platform.
“I went to Kenosha to help my community—not become a whipping boy in the national debate. In less than three minutes, the direction of my life was horribly altered when I was forced to defend myself with deadly force. So much was said and written about me that was not true.”
The 20-year-old contends that the book is his voice for the “first time,” telling his story, claiming, “I was attacked. I defended myself. I was prosecuted. I was acquitted.”
Despite having over a million followers on the X platform, 266,000 followers on Instagram, and being a Fox News and MAGA darling, his digital book is not selling.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 5, the book is ranked at No. 9,569 in the Kindle Store sector on Amazon and No. 510 in nonfiction in the Kindle Store.
The book has over 43 reviews and sits at 3.6 stars on the platform’s user-generated rating system.
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