A fundraising campaign on Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has raised nearly $300,000 for Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rittenhouse, 17, is being held on charges of murder after allegedly shooting three Black Lives Matter/ANTIFA protesters, killing two of them, last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The campaign’s organizer explained that they are in communication with the Rittenhouse family, Kyle’s legal team, as well as a new foundation set up by Kyle’s attorney Lin Wood to raise funds for conservatives facing politicized legal challenges.
“Kyle is reportedly in good spirits, and I’m told that the incredible support shown by you good people is what’s keeping him going,” reads a statement posted on the fundraiser’s page. Kyle “now faces the wrath of those who would see us stripped of our God-given rights and reduced to servitude,” it adds.
GiveSendGo notes that all links to their website have now been banned from the big social media companies. “GiveSendGo has had their links banned from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter,” an updated statement reads. “They may try to censor us and deprive us of the ability to help people, but that’s the thing about light; it always gets in.”
A fundraising campaign for Rittenhouse was banned on the site GoFundMe last week after the site claimed the campaign violated the website’s rules. Rittenhouse was engaged in a hate crime, GoFundMe says, before being arrested which violates their rules.