Dems name on Jordan, McCarthy to bar RFK Jr. from listening to: ‘Vile’
WASHINGTON — Home Democrats are anticipated to ship a letter to Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., on Tuesday, urging the leaders to to disinvite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from an upcoming listening to and criticizing his current feedback on COVID-19 as antisemitic and racist.
“Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly and not too long ago unfold vile and harmful antisemitic and anti-Asian conspiracy theories that tarnish his credibility as a witness and should not be legitimized along with his look earlier than the U.S. Congress nor given the platform of an official committee listening to to unfold his baseless and discriminatory views,” a draft letter signed by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., and Judy Chu, D-Calif., says.
Kennedy − a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate − is set to testify in a Home Judiciary subcommittee listening to on the weaponization of the federal authorities on Thursday as a witness. However after the New York Post released a video recording final week of Kennedy spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and Jewish and Chinese language individuals, Democrats are pushing to take away him from the witness listing.
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“These false claims echo centuries of Jews being scapegoated and held collectively liable for sicknesses just like the Black Plague − typically as a precursor for massacres and pogroms, and Chinese language immigrants being blamed for plague outbreaks for the reason that mid-1800s,” the letter says. “The conspiracies promoted by Mr. Kennedy had been made with none foundation in scientific proof, which isn’t a shock, since no such proof exists.”
When requested about calls to disinvite Kennedy, Jordan told Politico that whereas he “completely disagrees” with what Kennedy mentioned, lawmakers is not going to censor him. Likewise, McCarthy told reporters on Monday he “disagrees with every thing” Kennedy mentioned, however declined to disinvite him.
Kennedy known as the New York Put up story “mistaken” in a statement on Twitter however continued to unfold conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
Contributing: Related Press