The Independent reports:
Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr baselessly claimed in a congressional hearing on Thursday that he has never been anti-vaccine. Mr Kennedy testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government where House Republicans had invited him to testify about being censored by the Biden administration and tech companies.
Mr Kennedy, currently a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president against the incumbent Joe Biden, denied that he opposed vaccines. “I have never told anybody I have never told the public avoid vaccination,” he said. “I want to have a conversation with him about that with the American people, which I believe vaccines should be tested with the same rigor as other medicines medications.”
Read the full article. In addition to years of claims that autism is caused by vaccines and that tens of thousands have been killed by the COVID vaccine, Kennedy has blamed the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic on vaccine testing.
“I wanna say this while I’m on the record that in my entire life … I have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or antisemetic.”
— Robert F Kennedy Jr. testifying before the House Judiciary Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee pic.twitter.com/h29XsmSYbt
— The Recount (@therecount) July 20, 2023
RFK Jr. has made millions of dollars throughout his lifelong anti-vaccine grift. https://t.co/jhA2w67Pav
— Ryan Davis (@RyanNewYork) July 20, 2023
RFK Jr. says COVID was ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews and Chinese people.
I’m starting to think there’s something really really wrong with this guy…
(Love to see the uncomfortable reaction around him.) pic.twitter.com/oc1oSE8KYW— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 15, 2023
DWS: You compared COVID public health policies to barbaric tactics of Nazi Germany saying the Jewish people of Nazi Germany had more freedom than Americans..
RFK Jr: What you are saying is a lie pic.twitter.com/g4lviOCLJO
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2023
DWS: Yet last week you floated a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was bioengineered to target Caucasians and Black people..
RFK Jr: You’re misstating
DWS: No l, I quoted what you said earlier pic.twitter.com/6NVWXx03kr
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 20, 2023
He’s literally on video suggesting that COVID-19 is a bioweapon designed to spare Jews. Anyone can watch it. https://t.co/pKLLvkQYE6
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 20, 2023
Connolly to RFK Jr: "You are here for cynical reasons to be used politically by that side of the aisle to embarrass the current president, and you're an enabler in that effort today. And it brings shame on a storied name that I revere." pic.twitter.com/ocKOUZ25SN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 20, 2023