Robert F. Kennedy Jr. instructed Congress this week that he by no means in contrast the federal Covid-19 masks and vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and “Hitler’s Germany,” RadarOnline.com has discovered.
The fiery confrontation came about on Thursday because the 2024 presidential candidate appeared earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee to testify at a listening to about censorship and alleged authorities “weaponization.”
In line with Kennedy’s testimony, he “by no means uttered a phrase that was both racist or anti-Semitic”
He additionally claimed he was “subjected to this new type of censorship, which is named focused propaganda, the place folks apply pejoratives like ‘anti-vax.’”
However Thursday’s listening to took a dramatic flip when Democratic Home Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida slammed the accused anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist for “making gentle of the genocide in opposition to the Jewish folks” whereas “discussing Covid public well being measures.”
“Mr. Kennedy, did you suppose it was simple for Jewish folks to flee the systematic slaughter of Nazis, sure or no?” the congresswoman requested, to which Kennedy responded: “Completely not.”
“Okay, good,” Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz continued. “Mr. Kennedy, do you suppose it was simply as laborious to put on a masks throughout Covid because it was to cover beneath floorboards or false partitions so that you weren’t murdered or dragged to a focus camp, sure or no?”
“In fact not, that’s ridiculous!” he responded.
Kennedy rapidly apologized for his feedback and claimed he was making an attempt to “use examples of previous barbarism to indicate the perils from new applied sciences of management.”
“I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, particularly to households that suffered the Holocaust horrors,” he defined. “My intention was to make use of examples of previous barbarism to indicate the perils from new applied sciences of management.”