Upon Rittenhouse’s acquittal last week, several GOP lawmakers such as Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) swiftly expressed their interest in hiring Rittenhouse as an intern as they celebrated the news. Gosar tweeted that he would “arm wrestle” Gaetz to “get dibs for Kyle as an intern.” In an Instagram post, Cawthorn wrote that Rittenhouse would “be the only person on my staff with more security than me.”
Asked about the internship offers to his client during an interview on Fox News, Richards dismissed the GOP congressmen’s offers as a “cheap” means to gain publicity.
“Well, I think there’s a lot of people want to use Kyle for their own means,” Richards said. “I think the way the Rittenhouse name right now has trended on Twitter – and that’s what we live in, is a Twitter society – people want to use his name, get it out there so they can get some publicity. I think it’s cheap. That’s what I think.”