Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plunged into new depths of conspiracy theories when he claimed that Covid-19 was ‘racially targeted’ and that ‘those most resistant are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.’
RFK Jr., 69, made the comments Thursday at an event at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant on New York City’s Upper East Side.
The late Robert F. Kennedy’s son engaged the audience with his eccentric rant about vaccines but the night descended into ‘battles of words and farting,’ reports the New York Post.
The Post also reported on RFK Jr.’s anti-Semitic diatribes. ‘We don’t know if it was intentionally targeted but there are some papers that show racial or ethnic differences and impacts,’ the Democratic candidate added.
He went on to opine that the powers that be are working on biological weapons that would make Covid-19 look like a ‘walk in the park’.
A spokesman for the Anti-Defamation League reacted angrily to RFK Jr.’s statement
‘Claims that Covid-19 was a biological weapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and Blacks are deeply offensive and feed the Sinophobic and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Covid-19 that we have seen evolve over the past three years. ,’ an ADL spokesperson told Newstimesuk.com.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is pictured at Thursday’s event where he made outlandish claims about Covid-19, telling an audience that the virus was designed ‘not to affect the Jewish or Chinese people’
RFK Jr., 69, made the comments Thursday at an event at Tony’s Di Napoli restaurant on New York City’s Upper East Side.
The event was organized by writer Doug Dechert and was said to have descended into a night of ‘screaming and farting’.
Among Democrats polled in recent polls, 58 percent support Biden for the nomination, while 15 percent support Kennedy.
‘We know that the Chinese are spending millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. They are collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people racially,’ he continued.
Kennedy responded to an anti-Semitic charge by accusing the New York Post of being ‘wrong’.
He tweeted, ‘I never suggested that the Covid-19 virus was aimed at saving Jews.
‘I correctly pointed out – during an off-the-record conversation – that the US and other governments are developing racially targeted bioapons and that a 2021 study of the Covid-19 virus showed that Covid-19 appears to disproportionately affect some races. The furin cleave docking site is most compatible with blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns and Ashkenazi Jews,’ he continued.
‘In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for racially targeted bioweapons. I do not believe and have never suggested that the racial impact was intentionally engineered,’ the Democrat added.
Kennedy then accused one of the dinner guests, journalist Jonathan Levine, of using an off-the-record conversation to ‘taint’ the candidate with ‘a foreign conspiracy theory’.
‘This cynical maneuver is consistent with the mainstream media playbook to discredit me as a crank – and by association, to deny the revelation of real corruption and collusion,’ Kennedy added.
Kennedy addressed his supporters at the dinner on Thursday
There is no credible evidence to suggest that anything RFK Jr. said was accurate. Although new reports suggest that Covid-19 was man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, there is no evidence that it was racially targeted.
The event was hosted by author Doug Dechert. According to socialite diarist David Patrick Columbia, about 16 people attended the dinner, including the Amsterdam News, Page Six and radio host Rita Cosby.
Columbia wrote that a question-and-answer session began as the first course concluded.
Columbia wrote, ‘The guest of honor spoke about his thoughts on various topics and situations.
A heated argument erupted late in the evening between the host, Doug Dechert, and art critic Anthony Hayden-Guest. The critic called the host a ‘sad blob’ and told him to ‘shut up.’
The critic called Dechert ‘petty’ and ‘f*****g crazy. Videos posted on social media show Kennedy smiling during the war of words.
Eventually, the night turned into more farce as Dechert is heard farting while announcing: ‘I’m parting.’
RFK Jr.’s adviser and right-wing activist Morton Klein told the Post that the candidate’s latest comments “concern” him.
‘It’s madness. It makes no sense that they would do it. I have read all. I was totally against vaccines. . . I tried to convince myself that it was right not to take it. I’ve never seen anything like it,’ Klein said.
Kennedy has dabbled in anti-Semitism with some of his other comments surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.
He has repeatedly invoked Nazis and the Holocaust while touting measures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19, such as mask requirements and vaccine mandates.
He apologized for some of those comments, in which he suggested that people in 2022 were worse off than Anne Frank.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for his actions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This week, Kennedy promised to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic if he wins the White House in 2024.
‘If he has committed a crime, of course, I will ask the attorney general to prosecute him, not lock him up,’ Kennedy promised in an interview on Fox News.
While Kennedy did not directly say whether America’s former top doctor was guilty of a crime, he did say how he believed Dr Fauci was ‘hurt a lot’ by accusing him of withholding treatment from Americans in the early stages of the pandemic.
Kennedy said it was Fauci’s actions that actually contributed to the high death toll in the United States.
‘I think that he, in particular, by withholding basic medical care from Americans, we’ve raised the highest death toll in the world,’ Kennedy said in a Monday night interview.
‘We only have 4.2 per cent of the world’s population, but we have 16 per cent of Covid deaths in this country and it’s because of bad policy,’ Kennedy explained.
‘There are countries that did the opposite of what we did which provided their populations with ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, other first aid and we had 1/200 the death rate.
‘There are many, many things we’ve done wrong in our country and some of them were, I would say … some of the things that were done by health officials at the time, they knew they would be harmful.’
Kennedy has previously made similar allegations in a book titled ‘The Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health’.
Kennedy was then asked by host Jesse Waters why he continues to falsely claim that childhood vaccines are linked to autism.
Kennedy said, ‘I believe that autism comes from vaccines but I think a lot of what people believe about my views on vaccines is wrong’.
‘You know, what I said about vaccines is that we should have good science. We should be doing the same kind of testing, placebo-controlled trials that we have for every other type of drug.
‘Vaccines are exempt from pre-licensing placebo-controlled trials. So there’s no way anyone can tell the risks of all these products or even the relative benefits of all those products before it’s mandatory and we should be doing that kind of testing.’
Kennedy was not strongly challenged by Waters during the interview, who appeared to accept the details he provided.
The candidate is believed to be polling more than 20 percent of some Democratic voters, though there has been no indication that President Joe Biden will engage in a debate with her or self-help guru Marian Williamson.
When announcing his campaign in April, RFK Jr. compared his campaign to the American Revolution.
“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt consolidation of state and corporate power that now threatens to impose a new form of corporate feudalism on our country,” Kennedy said.
The candidate was once known as an environmental lawyer who worked on issues such as clean water.
Kennedy launched his campaign on April 19 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston with his wife Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm actress.
But over the past nearly two decades, he has become one of the leading voices in the anti-vaccine movement. His work has been described by his own family members and public health experts as misleading and dangerous.
His efforts intensified after the pandemic and the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, and in 2021 he became associated with anti-democratic figures and other groups.
The 2020 presidential election is stolen and he has appeared at events to push lies with people who cheered or downplayed the uprising at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
A photo posted on Instagram shows Kennedy backstage at a Reawaken America event in July 2021 with former President Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and anti-vaccine lobbyist Charlene Bollinger. All three spread lies about the 2020 election being stolen.
Kennedy was a guest on Channel Info, hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on the ‘War Room’ podcast hosted by longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, where he promoted his 2021 best-selling book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’, calling America’s top infectious disease doctor ‘ Accused of participating in a ‘historic coup’ against Western democracies.
During the pandemic, RFK Jr.’s group, Children’s Health Defense, raised funding and followers in the United States and abroad, and doubled its revenue from 2019 to 2020. Revenue doubled from $7 million in 2020 to $16 million in 2021.
Facebook and Instagram removed Children’s Health Defense accounts for spreading misinformation.
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