Kyle Rittenhouse Claims Lin Wood Used Him To Make Money: "Held Me In Jail for 87 Days to Raise More Funds"

Kyle Rittenhouse trashed his former attorneys, including Trump's former ally Lin Wood, for raising money for themselves and accusing him of being in a militia during his much-anticipated interview with Tucker Carlson that aired Monday.

Wood and John Pierce, who helped raise the bond money to get Rittenhouse released from jail via their #FightBack foundation after his arrest last year now want their foundation's cash back, but the 18-year-old Antioch, Illinois resident’s family is refusing.

Rittenhouse, 18, told the Fox News host that Wood and John Pierce raised money on his behalf while he was in jail.

But he claims 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.

'I was in jail for 87 days,' Rittenhouse said. '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.'

'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.'

Rittenhouse also criticized the two for saying he was in an 'unorganized militia' upon the teen's release from jail.

'John Pierce said that and it's blatantly false,' he replied. 'I didn't know militia was until after the fact, until November 25, when I was watching some of the interviews he did. I'm like, I'm not in a militia. I don't know what that is.'

WATCH SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM KYLE RITTENHOUSE'S INTERVIEW ON TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT:

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