Biden-aligned group urges Jim Jordan to disinvite RFK Jr. from weaponization hearing.
An activist group aligned with President Joe Biden has issued a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), demanding that he disinvite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from testifying at an upcoming hearing on the alleged weaponization of federal government offices and resources.
Mr. Kennedy, who is currently challenging Mr. Biden in the 2024 Democratic primary, is
CIP launched a new initiative in November to push back on Republican congressional investigations of the Biden administration after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. On CIP’s website, the organization states it “will investigate the investigators, expose their political motivations and the monied special interests supporting their work, and hold them accountable for ignoring the urgent priorities of all Americans in order to smear Joe Biden and do the political bidding of Trump and MAGA Republicans.”
In their letter to Mr. Jordan, CIP cast Mr. Kennedy as a “conspiracy theorist” and “Russian propagandist,” accusing him of spreading “antisemitic and xenophobic” views, while describing Mr. Jordan’s decision to seek Mr. Kennedy’s testimony as the continuation of a “failed” effort to undermine the Biden administration.
“Your MAGA cult leader Donald Trump expects you to deliver and you and your friend [House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer] have failed spectacularly every step of the way,” CIP Executive Director Kyle Herrig wrote. “And now you think having Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testify in support of your debunked theories will somehow own President Biden and the Democrats—but in reality all you’re doing is proving to all the world what a desperate man you are.”
NTD News reached out to Mr. Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee for comment but did not receive a response by the time this article was published.
Kennedy Accused of Antisemitism
“I’m writing to formally call on you to disinvite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from next week’s so-called weaponization of the federal government hearing,” Herrig wrote. “Not only is he a known conspiracy theorist whose anti-vaccine views have put lives in jeopardy, a Russian propagandist who has sided with [Russian President Vladimir Putin] over Ukraine, and a total whack job whose views and conspiracy theories would be completely ignored but for his last name, but we now have video evidence of his horrific antisemitic and xenophobic views which are simply beyond the pale.”
To support its allegation that Mr. Kennedy had expressed antisemitic and xenophobic views, CIP linked a clip of the presidential candidate speaking at a July 11 campaign press event in New York City. In the video clip, Mr. Kennedy said of China’s COVID-19, “There is an argument that [COVID-19] is ethnically targeted” before claiming the virus impacted certain races disproportionately than others.
“COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” Mr. Kennedy said. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.”
Mr. Kennedy has since defended his remarks from charges of antisemitism, insisting he was talking about how vari
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