RFK Jr. says he's not 'anti-vax.' CNN fact checks that claim

 

>>> THIS IS CNN, THE WORLDEWS

>>> RIGHT NOW ON CAPITOL HILL,

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. IS

CONTINUING TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE

HOUSE COMMITTEE THERE.

IT IS A HEARING ABOUT ALLEGED

GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP.

DEMOCRATS HAVE URGED THE

REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO DISINVITE

HIM TO THE HEARING OVER HIS

DOCUMENTED HISTORY PUSHING

DANGEROUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES.

JUST THIS WEEK, HE WAS REBUKED

BY HIS OWN FAMILY BY PUSHING THE

CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT COVID WAS

TO TARGET ETHNIC GROUPS SPARING

JEWISH AND OTHER GROUPS.

BUT THIS MORNING, HE HAS

INSISTED THAT HE IS NOT RACIST,

ANTI-SEMITIC OR ANTI-VACCINE.

>> I HAVE NEVER BEEN

ANTI-VACCINE, BUT EVERYBODY IN

THE ROOM PROBABLY BELIEVES I

HAVE BEEN, BECAUSE THAT IS THE

PREVAILING NARRATIVE.

>> CNN'S DANIELLE DALE HAS BEEN

WATCHING THE HEARING AND

CHECKING THE FACTS.

WHAT ARE FACTS HERE?

>> MR. KENNEDY SAYS HE IS MR.

VACCINE, BECAUSE HE WANTS SAFE

PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT, AND COME

ON, HE HAS SPENT MUCH OF HIS

LIFE CALLING THEM UNSAFE, AND IN

ADDITION TO THAT, FALSELY

LINKING THE VACCINES TO ALL

KINDS OF DISEASES THAT HAVE

NOTHING TO DO WITH VACCINES.

I COULD CITE DOZENS OF VACCINES

THAT HE HAS INSISTED ON VACCINES

AND AUTISM, AND ZERO BASIS FOR

THIS CLAIM, BUT HE HAS DONE IT

FOR YEARS.

AND HE ATTACKED SAFE COVID-19

VACCINE, AND I WON'T REPEAT THE

BASIS FOR WHICH VACCINES ARE

TESTED.

HE IS DEEP DOWN THE VACCINE

RABBIT HOLE, AND YOU WILL NOT

HAVE SEEN THE CLAIMS UNLESS YOU

ARE IMMERSED IN THAT WORLD.

THERE IS STRONG EVIDENCE THAT

THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC WAS NOT A

FLU, BUT IT WAS CAUSED BY

VACCINE RESEARCH.

IT IS NONSENSE THAT HAS BEEN

DEBUNKED.

THE FLU PANDEMIC WAS A FLU

PANDEMIC.

AND SOHE ALSO CLAIMED THAT HIV

CAME FROM A VACCINE PROGRAM.

SO WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMEONE LIKE

MR. KENNEDY WHO SPENT HIS TIME

TO TALK ABOUT VACCINES THAT

TARGET PEOPLE, AND ANTIVAX IS A

FAIR DESCRIPTOR.

>> ON TOP OF THAT, DANIEL, I

WANT TO PLAY ANOTHER MOMENT OF

THE TESTIMONY THIS MORNING

DENYING THAT HE HAS HAS EVER

SAID ANYTHING RACIST OR

ANTI-SEMITIC.

LET'S PLAY THIS.

>> IN MY ENTIRE LIFE AND WHILE I

AM UNDER OATH, IN MY ENTIRE

LIFE, I HAVE NEVER UTTERED A

PHRASE THAT WAS EITHER RACIST OR

ANTI-SEMITIC.

>> DANIEL, HOW DOES THAT CHECK

OUT?

>> I DON'T PERSONALLY DECIDE FOR

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WHAT IS

ANTI-SEMITIC OR ANY OTHER

COMMUNITY WHAT IS RACIST, BUT I

WILL TELL YOU THAT PROMINENT

ASIAN AND JEWISH GROUPS DISAGREE

THAT HE HAS SAID ANYTHING

ANTI-SEMITIC OR RACIST, AND THIS

CAME UP BECAUSE HE SAID THAT

COVID-19 IS CAME ABOUT TO TARGET

BLACK PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO

OSTRACIZED THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID, EVERY

ASPECT OF THE COMMENTS REFLECT

SOME OF THE MOST HORRID

ANTI-SEMITIC COMMENTS, AND GIVE

RISE TO THE GROUPS WHO ARE

GIVING RISE TO ANTI-ASIAN HATE,

AND THEY ARE HATEFUL.

THIS IS NOT FIRST TIME.

EARLY LAST YEAR HE MADE THIS

DERANGED COMPARISON TO THE

HOLOCAUST WHILE ATTACKING

VACCINE MANDATES.

>> EVEN IN HITLER GERMANY, YOU

COULD CROSS THE ALPS IN

SWITZERLAND OR HIDE IN THE

ATTIC.

I WENT TO VISIT WITH MY FATHER,

AND MANY DIED TRYING, BUT IT WAS

POSSIBLE.

MECHANISMS MAKING IT POSSIBLE SO

THAT NONE OF KUS RUN AND NONE OF

US CAN HIDE.

>> MILLIONS OF JEW