Ann Coulter, Right Wing Pundits Rally Around Accused Teen Vigilante

Little seen pundit and shock jock Ann Coulter was kicked off of Twitter on after tweeting that she wanted Kyle Wittinghouse to be president.

"Twitter quickly removed the tweet after social media users jumped to criticize Coulter for praising the teenager accused of the murder of two Black Lives Matter protesters on Tuesday night," the Daily Mail reports.

Coulter was responding to a tweet from a woman who wanted Wittinghouse to be her bodyguard.

"Twitter deemed that the tweet violated the platforms' rules about violence after other users complained," the Daily Mail continues.

A Twitter spokesperson told the website Salon that "the platform forced Coulter to delete her tweet for violating its rules about glorifying violence."

Since Thursday, Coulter has been slammed on Twitter:

Others on the right chimed in with support for Wittinghouse

Though not as extreme, others on the right have shown support for Wittinghouse. "Former San Francisco Giants player Aubrey Huff also lauded the alleged suspect, and Fox News host Tucker Carlson took to his defense in a fiercely criticized segment on his show Wednesday," writes Salon.

Huff deleted the tweet seen below in a screen save:

"Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones tweeted that Carlson had 'justified murder' as calls for the network to fire him accelerated."

Fox News conservative commentator�Katie Pavlich echoed Carlson in a conversation with Mike Wallace.

"On the argument of vigilante justice, when you have no police around to defend businesses and people who are being attacked – and their livelihoods burned to the ground – then there is a void that is filled," Pavlich told Wallace Thursday on Fox News.

When Fox pointed out that what Wittinghouse had done was criminal, she responded:

"Just as it is fair to say that rioting and looting is a completely inappropriate response to George Floyd or Jacob Blake, vigilante justice is a completely inappropriate response to the rioting in the street," Wallace said. "There is no justification for what happened in Kenosha, and vigilante justice is a crime and should be punished as a crime."