RFK Jr. Confronted With Barrage of His Bonkers Claims, Including Covid Being Targeted to Avoid Jews: ‘I Want All of Our Colleagues to Hear It!’
Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) unloaded a barrage of bonkers past claims made by Secretary of Health and Human Services pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during Wednesday’s confirmation hearing in a run so relentless that the nominee struggled to respond.
Bennet warned his colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee that they were “truly through the looking glass” with this hearing and began by noting that he agreed with Kennedy on public issues related to diet, healthcare access and mental healthcare – with a jab at the owners of the major social media platforms who were given prime place at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
As he continued, however, the senator attacked Kennedy’s record, accusing him of having “spent 50 years of his life… peddling in half truths, peddling in false statements, peddling in theories that create doubt about whether or not things that we know are safe are unsafe.”
Bennet, a former school teacher, accused Kennedy of promoting vaccine skepticism in a way that led to parents choosing not to vaccinate their children, while making sure that his own children were vaccinated.
“Not that every vaccine in America is unsafe, not that you can’t possibly have an adverse reaction, but that parents and children in my old school district and school districts all over this country would be better off not getting vaccinated than getting vaccinated,” he said. “Unlike his own children who are vaccinated. Unlike the people he invited to his house in Los Angeles for their party who were vaccinated. For everybody else, it’s about peddling these half truths. And he says it with such conviction that you want to believe him.”
From here Bennet launched into a barrage of “yes or no” questions on wild past statements as Kennedy sought to clarify his position on, which the senator had little patience for.
BENNET: Mr. Kennedy, did you say that Covid-19 was a genetically engineered bio weapon that targets Black and white people, but spared Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people?
KENNEDY: I didn’t say it was deliberately targeted. I just quoted an NIH funded, an NIH published study…
BENNET: Did you say it targets Black and white people, but spared Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people?
KENNEDY: I quoted a study, your honor. I quoted an NIH study that showed… certain races
BENNET: I’ll take that as a yes. I have to move on Mr. Kennedy. Did you say that Lyme disease is is highly likely a materially engineered bioweapon? I made sure I put in the highly likely. Did you say Lyme disease is a highly likely militarily engineered bioweapon?
KENNEDY: I probably did say that.
As Kennedy attempted to speak more, Bennet shouted: “I want all of our colleagues to hear it, Mr. Kennedy. I want them to hear it. You said yes.”
Bennet continued his barrage of questions.
BENNET: Did you say that exposure to pesticides causes children to become transgender?
KENNEDY: No, I never said that.
BENNET: Okay, I have the record that I’ll give to the chairman, and he can make his judgment about what you said. Did you write in your book that it’s undeniable that African AIDS is an entirely different disease from western AIDS. Yes or no?
KENNEDY: I’m not sure if I may.
BENNET: Okay. I’ll give it to the chairman. Mr. Kennedy, and my final question. Did you say on a podcast and I quote, ‘I wouldn’t leave [abortion] to the states. My belief is we should leave it to the woman. We shouldn’t have the government involved, even if it’s full term.’ Did you say that, Mr. Kennedy?
KENNEDY: Senator, I believe that every abortion is a tragedy.
BENNET: Did you say it, Mr. Kennedy? This matters.! It doesn’t matter what you come here and say that isn’t true, that’s not reflective of what you really believe that you haven’t said over a decade after decade after decade. Because unlike other jobs, we’re confirming around this place, this is a job where it is life and death for the kids that I used to work for in the Denver public schools and for families all over this country that are suffering from living in the richest country in the world that can’t deliver basic health care and basic mental health care to them. It’s too important for the games that you’re playing. Mr. Kennedy. And I hope my colleagues will say to the president, I have no influence over him. I hope my colleagues will say to the president, out of 330 million Americans, we can do better than this.
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