Kennedys campaign paid a litany of prominent activists which includes some antivaccine advocates public health conspiracy theorists and Republicans either individually or through their businesses the filings show. The payments could undermine Kennedys Democratic bona fides as he attempts a longshot bid for the Democratic nomination against President Joe Biden. One antivaccination activist whose company was paid by Kennedy once famously compared vaccine mandates to prosecution of Jews during the Holocaust. He was condemned by Jewish groups for once comparing vaccination to the persecution of Jews by wearing a Holocaustera Star of David badge to protest vaccinations. The Kennedy campaign also paid at least two people employed by Moms Across America an organization that spreads awareness about GMOs and pesticides in food. It also paid approximately to Republican Helen Brady who lost a bid for a congressional seat in Massachusetts th congressional district in and approximately in salary to Robert Lucero who ran as a Republican in Californias Senate top two primary in but lost. F Street Partners is run by a former Republican candidate for office in Virginia and aims to help conservative and right of center organizations deal with new challenges they are facing from deplatforming to censorship according to their website. The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine says that the claim that GMOs are linked to autism is false. Other individuals paid by the campaign include a film editor who worked on antivax films a woman who works as a coach to help parents unschool their children from traditional inperson schools amidst the coronavirus pandemic a selfdeclared autism advocate who has falsely linked vaccines to autism and an artist and content creator who founded a Clubhouse channel where users ruminate on aliens demons and witchcraft vaccine conspiracies reptilian humanoids and artificial intelligence. The campaign did not respond to s comment requests for this article. It was revealed in recent days that he suggested Covid could have been genetically engineered to spare Jewish and Chinese people comments condemned by his own family members along with top Democratic organizations and the White House. Kennedy was also paid in April for direct mail services by a GOP fundraising firm in Virginia. He also called the groups founder Zen Honeycutt who Kennedy called a modern day Rachel Carson a marine biologist and nature writer wrote the influential environmental conservationist book Silent Spring in which documented the harm of the pesticides on the environment. Kennedy has also paid some activists who promote unfounded public health claims according to the filing. He has also been criticized for suggesting Covid may be genetically engineered and that it could be used as a weapon of mass destruction in the event of a terrorist attack on the US Capitol. He said in the past that he believed Covid was a ‘good idea’ and that if it was not, he would use it as a tool of mass surveillance. The White House has said it would be a ‘disaster’ if it were to be used in the future to protect the American people from terrorist attacks. Kennedy also said he would not use Covid as a weapons of mass murder. He is also said to have said that he would consider using Covid to help combat the spread of the flu.
RFK Jr.’s campaign filings show payments to a litany of Republicans and controversial
