RFK Jr. Testifies Before House Weaponization Subcommittee

Facts

• Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday — defending himself against allegations of antisemitic remarks while calling out online censorship by Big Tech and his own party.¹
• House Republicans invited Kennedy to address the censorship and an alleged smear campaign by the Biden admin. and corporate media. RFK Jr. says his ban from Instagram, which was allegedly for posting misinformation about vaccines, was orchestrated by the Biden Admin.²
• Democrats have long-criticized RFK Jr. despite his family’s legacy in the party. House Democrats tried to remove him from Thursday’s hearing, saying Kennedy violated a House rule aimed at prohibiting defamatory or degrading testimony. Their bid, however, was unsuccessful.³
• Earlier this week, Kennedy drew heat for claiming that Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews were more immune to the effects of COVID than Caucasians and Black people — suggesting the disease could have been ethnically targeted, which caused 102 Congressional Democrats to sign a letter opposing his appearance.⁴
• Kennedy defended himself against allegations of antisemitism and promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. He denounced the Democrats’ bid to disinvite him as anti-free speech and said he doesn’t "believe there’s a single person who signed this letter who believes I’m antisemitic."⁵
• Democrats say that Kennedy has continuously promoted dangerous conspiracy theories about vaccines. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) called RFK’s comments about COVID “despicable," while Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says Kennedy’s appearance was intended to attack Joe Biden and help Donald Trump’s electoral chances.⁶

Sources: ¹Associated Press, ²NBC, ³FOX News, ⁴ABC News, ⁵New York Post, and ⁶The Hill.

Narratives

• Republican narrative, as provided by Daily Caller. It's ironic how Democrats engaged in an all-out blitz to censor RFK Jr. during a hearing on censorship while having the nerve to claim they’re not actively censoring dissent. The woke left has used the same smear tactics, calling their opponents “racist,” “sexist,” “antisemitic,” and other “ists” in order to stop them from speaking. They’ve usually reserved their totalitarianism for conservatives, but now they’re even branching out to silence anti-establishment members of their own party.
• Democratic narrative, as provided by Rolling Stone. RFK Jr., who has been intentionally spreading dangerous misinformation for years, should not be given the platform to continue doing so before the House of Representatives. Republicans should be ashamed that they invited him, especially after his recent comments, which added racism to his repertoire of problematic rhetoric. This is suspiciously convenient for the GOP — RFK Jr. is a "Democrat" running to the right of DeSantis and Trump who has caught the eye of conservative operatives and donors.

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