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How Johnny Depp INSPIRED Kyle Rittenhouse: Teen plans to do a Jack Sparrow on Mark Zuckerberg

'Johnny Depp trial is just fueling me, you can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should,' the 19-year-old tweeted

Kyle Rittenhouse has expressed his views over the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard verdict that came out on Wednesday, June 1, largely supporting the actor. The teenager, who was found not guilty on murder charges in November 2021 following the death of two men during the 2020 Kenosha riots that began after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, has claimed that the blockbuster trial ruling has inspired him to sue Mark Zuckerberg along with 15 others for allegedly calling him a “murderer” and a “white supremist”.

Rittenhouse took to Twitter to congratulate the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star by writing, “‘The jury gave me my life back.’ ‘Truth never perishes.’ - Johnny Depp I felt that! Congratulations to Johnny and his team on his defamation suit.” He also noted that the “Johnny Depp trial is just fueling me, you can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!” as he added: “I have a new announcement coming soon about my defamation cases, keep an eye on Fox News and http://TMAP.org for more this week.”

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Attorney Todd McMurtry, who defended Kentucky teenager Nicholas Sandmann during his defamation cases, is also reportedly representing Rittenhouse. He told Fox News: “I’ve been hired to head the effort to determine whom to sue, when to sue, where to sue. We're going to look at everything that's been said, determine which of those comments are legally actionable and proceed from there.”

The lawyer stated that it’s "​​pretty much assured that there's probably 10 to 15 solid" cases against "large defendants." He also called out the Facebook CEO and accused him of taking down Rittenhouse’s social media accounts and “restricting positive comments about the teenager,” Fox News reported.

McMurtry said, “Let's just use for an example what Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg said about [Rittenhouse]. They said that he was involved in a mass murder incident. This was not a mass murder incident. It was clearly factually false,” before noting, “To call somebody a mass murderer is seriously defamatory. And then to use the power of social media to basically … censor any views that would take opposition to that mass murderer statement is a serious effort to destroy his character. And it was seriously mistaken and seriously defamatory.”

“Facebook has an outsized voice, they can do a lot of damage, as compared to somebody maybe who has a small blog with 100 subscribers. But we're going to look at everything that we have access to and that's been published, and decide which ones are actionable,” McMurtry added.

This comes after Rittenhouse had initially revealed his plan to sue “quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes” in February. He had told Fox News' ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’: “Well, right now, we're looking at quite a few politicians, celebrities, athletes, Whoopi Goldberg's on the list. She called me a ‘murderer’ after I was acquitted by a jury of my peers. She went on to still say that.”

At the time, he added: “We're going to hold everybody who lied about me accountable, such as everybody who lied called me a white supremacist. They're all going to be held accountable. And we're going to handle them in a courtroom.”