Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he has never been anti-vaccine, racist or antisemitic. House Democrats used his own words against him. Kennedy has baselessly called Covid vaccines unsafe and falsely linked vaccines to all kinds of diseases and health issues that actually have nothing to do with vaccines. The top Democrat on the subpanel, Rep. Stacey Plaskett accused her Republican colleagues of “endorsing” Kennedy Jr.’s “dangerous views” and giving them a platform in Congress. The House Judiciary weaponization subcommittee hearing is still underway and Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to end the public hearing in light of Kennedy’s previous false statements, but House Republicans blocked her effort and the hearing was still underway. The hearing is part of a larger probe into alleged censorship against conservatives at large technology companies, which Republicans say is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and freedom of the press. The subcommittee is also looking into alleged discrimination against conservatives in the tech industry, including at Google, Facebook, Apple and others. The committee is expected to hold a hearing on the issue of censorship in the coming weeks and months, and a vote is expected in the fall on whether to hold the hearing on censorship in tech companies in the U.S. in the future, as well as in Europe and elsewhere in the Middle East. The panel’s chairman is Rep. Ed Royce, R-Galveston, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who is also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold a vote on the matter in the next few weeks. The vote is likely to be held in the spring or summer, according to a source close to the committee, and the vote could be held as early as next year. The next presidential election is scheduled for 2016, and Kennedy has said he plans to run for the White House in 2016, if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination. The race is still very much up in the air, however, and it is not clear if he will face a Republican opponent in the 2016 presidential election or a Republican challenger in the Republican primary, which is also up in 2016. The Democratic candidate has previously come under fire for his previous comments from excerpts and high profile organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. He also suggested last year that Anne Frank was in a better situation when she was hiding from the Nazis than Americans living during the Covid-19 pandemic, which he has apologized for. “I’ve devoted my life to the values of this party. This – 102 people signed this. This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing,” he said. “The charges in this and by the way, censorship is antithetical to our party” Kennedy said, adding that “I have spent my life fighting my professional career, fighting for Israel, for the protection of Israel” He has also promoted several vaccine falsehoods apparently intended to discourage Black people from getting the Covod vaccine.
RFK Jr. grilled by Democrats on past vaccine comments. RFK Jr. has been a vocal opponent of vaccines.
