If the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial weren’t already aware of the high-stakes politics surrounding their deliberations, Judge Bruce Schroeder has made it absolutely clear.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger took up an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and held it in a shooting stance with the barrel pointing in the general direction of the jury and his finger inside the trigger guard.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke is running for governor of Texas, pursuing a blue breakthrough in America’s biggest red state after his star-making U.S. Senate campaign in 2018 put him closer than anyone else in decades.
