Kyle Rittenhouse is not the first fan of Donald Trump radicalized by the right wing rhetoric he espouses and moved to violence.

There have been dozens.
Dallas Frazier, 29, got out of his truck and repeatedly punched a 61-year-old anti-Trump protester in the head outside a Trump rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, in August 2019.
In April 2019, Kless threatened to kill several Democrats during telephone calls to congressional offices. He attacked congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for presuming to “tell our president, Donald Trump, what to say”. Kless, 49, told congressman Eric Swallwell of...
...California: “You’re gonna die.” He said he’d like to throw congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota “right off the Empire State Building”. Kless, of Tamarac, Florida, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of transmitting threats through interstate communications
Randal Thom was arrested for attempting to assault supporters of Elizabeth Warren at a campaign event for the Massachusetts senator in Storm Lake, Iowa, in January 2019. He hit a Warren supporter with a selfie stick, according to one report, and yelled “Trump 2020!”
In October 2018, Cesar Sayoc mailed 16 homemade pipe bombs to prominent critics of Trump across the country and to CNN, the cable news station most frequently derided by the president. None of the devices detonated and no one was injured.
Attorneys for Sayoc said in a sentencing memo that he “found light in Donald J Trump”
In March 2018, Nicholas Bukoski threatened to kill two senators, Kamala Harris of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The 19-year-old, from Crofton, Maryland, sent the threats in Instagram messages.
He told investigators “he was frustrated with liberals and very supportive of the current president” and watched Fox News eight to 12 hours a day.
Michael Hari and two co-conspirators allegedly bombed a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017. No one was injured. A person who knew Hari told the Intercept that Trump’s rhetoric had “flipped that switch” in Hari and persuaded him to act.
Kyle Chapman, 41, was filmed hitting counter-demonstrators over the head with a wooden baton during a “March 4 Trump” rally in Berkeley, California, in March 2017.
Brandon Davis knocked a gay man off his bicycle by ramming his scooter into him in Key West, Florida, in February 2017. He used homophobic slurs, told the man and his partner: “You’re in Trump country now” and noted they probably voted for “that bitch Hillary".
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