DNC chair slams RFK Jr’s claims COVID was engineered to spare Jews, Chinese language

The top of the Democratic social gathering was one among many to distance himself from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Saturday after The Post revealed the presidential hopeful spewed conspiracies that COVID-19 was “ethnically focused” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese language individuals.

“These are deeply troubling feedback and I need to clarify that they don’t signify the views of the Democratic Social gathering,” Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee, tweeted.

RFK Jr. dished out the thought earlier this week that the lethal virus was a genetically engineered bioweapon meant to focus on Caucasians and black individuals.

“There’s an argument that it’s ethnically focused,” the 2024 candidate mentioned throughout a Tuesday press event at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Road.

“COVID-19 assaults sure races disproportionately. The people who find themselves most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese language.”

The unique report introduced on a barrage of criticism from Democratic leaders

“Laborious to think about a son who has executed extra to dishonor his father’s identify than RFK Jr.,” Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres tweeted.

“RFK Jr. is an entire crackpot who has no enterprise being wherever close to the presidency.”

California Rep. Ted Lieu identified that tens of millions of individuals died from the virus worldwide, together with extensive swaths of individuals of Jewish and Chinese language descent.

“For those who nonetheless assist the wacky, narcissistic, racist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., then that claims extra about you than it does about him.”

Marianne Williamson, who can be working for the 2024 Democratic nomination, denounced his feedback, calling them “sinister and unfounded.”

“Whether or not deliberately or not, his remarks amplify sinister and unfounded notions which are each anti-Semitic and anti-Chinese language,” she wrote.

Kennedy’s feedback repeated hate speech that emerged shortly after the pandemic broke out inserting the unfold of the virus on the Jewish group, in response to The Heart for the Research of Up to date European Jewry on the College of Tel Aviv’s 2021 Antisemitism Worldwide Report.

People of Asian descent additionally turned the themes of elevated hate crimes, particularly in New York Metropolis, as theories that COVID-19 was leaked from a Chinese language lab have been circulated.

RFK Jr, a long-time vaccine skeptic later rejected, walked again on his controversial dinner dialog shortly after The Publish’s report broke.

Kennedy claimed he by no means urged that the COVID-19 virus was focused to spare Jews and whines that the occasion had been off the report.

Occasion organizer Doug Dechert informed The Publish it was on the report.