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Home Democrats this week heaped criticism on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forward of his testimony earlier than the Republican-led Home Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Authorities.
“He stated some very disturbing issues in regards to the COVID virus having a disproportionate impression on Caucasians and African Individuals after which additionally made the declare that it appears to have been particularly … focused,” Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., instructed Fox Information Digital. “Sure populations like Asians and Ashkenazi Jews are someway extra immune – these are all very doubtful claims.”
“I query the judgment of Republican management in inviting him to the Hill as a reputable witness. I simply suppose it perpetuates extra disinformation and doesn’t transfer our nation ahead,” he stated.
Takano was a part of a gaggle of Home Democrats who urged Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to disinvite Kennedy within the wake of feedback that surfaced in a New York Submit video. That video confirmed the long-shot 2024 presidential contender suggesting that “COVID-19 assaults sure races disproportionately” and “the people who find themselves most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese language.”
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Home Democrats are dismissing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., middle, as a reputable listening to witness. (Getty Photographs / Fox Information Digital)
Kennedy, who’s difficult President Biden for the 2024 Democrat presidential nomination, was accused of antisemitism by Democrats, together with Biden allies on Capitol Hill forward of his scheduled testimony Thursday. He is because of testify about accusations that the Biden administration colluded with social media firms to censor speech, together with throughout the pandemic.
“Speaker McCarthy likes to tweet about, you already know, Israel and the way antisemitism does not belong in Congress,” Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., stated. “He is bringing antisemitism to Congress by permitting RFK Jr. to come back on Thursday. The accountable factor to do is to not give him that platform.”
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He added, “It is simply dangerous what RFK is doing on well being care, on antisemitic feedback. It is simply not useful, and he has no enterprise being right here on the Capitol.”
Rep. Mark Takano is amongst a gaggle of Democrats who wrote a letter to GOP leaders to induce them to withdraw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a witness. (Fox Information Digital / Elizabeth Elkind)
Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the highest Democrat on the Home Methods & Means Committee, instructed Fox Information Digital, “I disagree sharply with what he is been suggesting for a very long time, and I feel his feedback about ethnicity, lately, I feel have been preposterous phrases … there’s not lots of proof that helps his place, that’s for positive.”
However Neal added that Republicans “get to decide on who the witnesses are, they usually’re calling it free speech.”
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Freshman Democrat Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C., laughed when requested about Republicans inviting Kennedy for the Thursday listening to.
“I feel it will be entertaining, and possibly it will embrace some misinformation,” Jackson stated.
Rep. Richard Neal accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of spreading antisemitism together with his latest feedback on COVID-19 and ethnicity. (Fox Information Digital / Elizabeth Elkind)
Others scoffed at his 2024 presidential marketing campaign. Neal merely stated when requested about his candidacy: “I’m for Joe Biden.”
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“Not a lot,” Takano stated when requested what he thinks of Kennedy’s marketing campaign.
“I do not suppose he’ll get very far, and I feel the extra individuals discover out his sloppy considering, his behavior and penchant for spouting off unsubstantiated and simply loopy claims that divide our nation, that it’ll stand, I feel, in stark distinction to the final methods during which Joe Biden has been a unifier,” he stated.
When reached for remark by Fox Information Digital, Kennedy’s marketing campaign stated it was ironic that fellow Democrats opposed him talking at a censorship listening to on Capitol Hill.
“How ironic that the Home Democrats try to censor testimony about censorship. Apparently, the type of censorship often known as ‘deplatforming’ is reaching its noxious tentacles into even the U.S. Congress,” the marketing campaign stated.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital.
