Blake Masters, a 34-year-old chief operating officer at investment firm Thiel Capital and native Arizonan, launched his campaign for US Senator from Arizona in July. Since his launch, Blake has appeared on several media hits including The Gateway Pundit and The War Room.
For years Blake worked running Peter Thiel’s venture capital fund in Silicon Valley. The fund today is worth upwards of $45 billion.
Blake Masters is a staunch supporter of individual rights and the Second Amendment.
On Friday after the judge announced the jury’s verdict on the Kyle Rittenhouse case Blake Masters posted a series of tweets in support of acquitted teen.
This may have been his best.
Blake Masters: We need to be a country where heroes like Kyle Rittenhouse can thrive, not where they are destroyed to gratify a mentally ill, malicious mob and a mentally ill, malicious media.
We need to be a country where heroes like Kyle Rittenhouse can thrive, not where they are destroyed to gratify a mentally ill, malicious mob and a mentally ill, malicious media
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
Here is the full Twitter thread.
This case reminded us that our justice system, like every other institution our ancestors built, is under siege, and that the besiegers are very close to victory
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
They called Kyle a “coward” for not using his fists against his attackers, including an attacker about to shoot him in the head with a handgunhttps://t.co/2ewXySoDOU
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
There were reports of potential jurors being filmed before the trial even started, and activists have been threatening the jury to issue a guilty verdict or else. https://t.co/AIcCMbkRdk
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
But it went beyond defamation. GoFundMe blocked legal defense fundraisers for Kyle. So did Facebook: Later, when he raised the money through GiveSendGo, we saw organized efforts to dox and harm ordinary people who donated to his defense
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
Subsequently, another journalist named Jason Nguyen @followWIN harassed the paramedic at his home. https://t.co/v7O6xeKtW5
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
All of this was done with the express intent of denying Kyle a fair trial, and destroying his life for defending himself from the violent mob progressives deliberately whipped up and supported in Kenosha
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
We need to be a country where heroes like Kyle Rittenhouse can thrive, not where they are destroyed to gratify a mentally ill, malicious mob and a mentally ill, malicious media
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 19, 2021
