Kyle Rittenhouse slams former attorneys Lin Wood and John Pierce claiming they let him rot in jail so they could fundraise themselves

Kyle Rittenhouse trashed his former attorneys, including Donald Trump crony Lin Wood, for raising money for themselves while letting him rot in jail for 87 days as the teen's lawyers seek to have his $2 million bail returned to their acquitted client.

Rittenhouse, 18, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Wood and John Pierce raised money on his behalf after he was jailed for killing two people and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020.

But he said that while the lawyers had raised enough bail money by mid-September, they chose not to post his bail because they wanted to use him for their own cause.

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I was in jail for 87 days,' Rittenhouse told Carlson on Monday in his first interview since being acquitted. 'Lin Wood was raising money on my behalf, and he held me in jail for 87 days, disrespecting my wishes, put me on media interviews which I should never have done, which he said, 'Oh, you're going to go talk to The Washington Post,' which was not a good idea, along with John Pierce.'

'They said I was safer in jail instead of at home with my family.'

Carlson responded: '87 days is a long time to be in jail.'

'It was very long,' said Rittenhouse. 'I lost a lot of weight in there. But 87 days of not being with my family for defending myself and being taken advantage of, being used for a cause by these–by John Pierce and Lin Wood… trying to raise money so they can take it for their own benefit, not trying to set me free.'