Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), 42. slammed his 69-year-old uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who’s currently running as a Democratic candidate for president against incumbent 80-year-old President Joe Biden. RFK Jr. was ripped for comments he made over the weekend suggesting that the Covid-19 virus was bio-engineered to possibly give immunity to Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Known for his long history as an environmental attorney into the dangers of Measles, Mumps and Rubella [MMR] vaccines, Kennedy uses his prodigious knowledge of vaccines to make controversial statements about the Covid-19 vaccines. RFK Jr. didn’t say the vaccines were bio-engineered to exclude Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews, he said he’s seen reports about the possibility. RFK’s remarks drew sharp condemnation as racist by the press and his own family.
By far the most knowledgeable candidate running for 2024 president, RFK Jr. drew strong condemnation by his Joe and his 64-year-old sister, Kerry Kennedy. Jumping on the anti-RFK Jr. bandwagon, Kennedy’s family jumped the gun. “My uncle’s comments were hurtful and wrong,” Joe Kennedy III tweeted Monday. “I unequivocally condemn what he said,” said Joe. Joe knows that his uncle has worked on behalf of families of autism patients trying to determine whether early childhood vaccines, including the mercury preservative thimerosal, contributed to the development of autism or other developmental disabilities. RFK Jr. has taken heat for the drug industry for years whose own research indicated no such link between vaccines and autism exists. But because the drug industry say there’s no scientific link, doesn’t mean mercury-laced vaccines don’t cause harm.
Jumping all over RFK Jr. for a few harmless comments about what he’s heard from the grapevine, doesn’t mean he’s propounding a new conspiracy theory. “I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid being engineered for ethnic targeting,” Kerry wrote through her family’s nonprofit organization. Kerry, like Joe, jumps the gun, not realizing that RFK Jr. has spent his career helping families of autistic children have some voice against the mighty pharmaceutical industry. When it comes to Covid-19, the medical/drug establishment, lead by 83-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, insisted the deadly novel corona virus originated naturally in a Wuhan seafood or wet market. Fauci gave no evidence for his assertion, disputing the idea that the deadly virus was made in Shi Zhengli’s Wuhan bioweapons lab. Fauci insisted the virus was natural.
Instead of condemning a member of their family, Joe and Kerry should give RFK Jr. a chance to explain himself, outrageous as it seems, to clarify any misunderstandings. Let there be no mistake that RFK Jr. has taken the heat from the drug industry for years defending victims of the vaccine industry. Again, the fact that the drug industry says their research shows no link between MMR vaccines and autism, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one. “His statements do not represent what I believe on what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stand for, with our 50+-track record of protecting right and standing against racism and forms of discrimination,” said RFK Human Rights nonprofit. RFK’s 50-year-work of holding drug companies accountable speaks for itself. When it comes to the Covid-19 virus, the medial/drug establishment did everything possible to deny a link to Zhengli’s Wuhan lab.
Mounting evidence about the deadly novel coronavirus now points to “gain-of-function” research where scientists take harmless bat coronaviurs and engineer them to be the most infectious, deadly viruses on the planet. University of North Carolina microbiologist Dr. Ralph Baric admitted to working in Zhengli’s lab injecting inert corona viruses with Angiotensin II [ACE 2]. If that’s not “gain-of-function” research, then what is? Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], and World Health Organiztion [WHO] all dismissed the lab-leak idea as a conspiracy theory. RFK Jr. has been branded for political purposes as a “crank” and “conspiracy nut” to discredit his 2024 presidential campaign. But the fact remains that RFK Jr. has spent his career branded by the medical/drug establishment as a conspiracy nut for winning lawsuits against the vaccine industry.
Before condemning RFK Jr., his family, at the very least, should give him the benefit of the doubt, raising issues about how the deadly novel coronavirus was bio-engineered for whatever purpose. Certainly targeting racial or ethnic groups is farfetched. But the idea that SARS CoV-19 was engineered in Zhengli’s Wuhan lab is no longer a conspiracy theory. How many times did you see Fauci say the lab-leak theory was an unfounded conspiracy theory? Now, almost four years after the deadly virus emerged, does the scientific community admit a lab-leak is the most likely theory for the origin of the deadly virus. “These are deeply troubling comment and I want to make clear that they do not represent the views of the Democratic Party,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison. Does Harrison also condemn Covid-19’s lab-leak theory?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
