Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is disputing a news report that he made antisemitic and racist remarks that echo unsubstantiated conspiracy theories linking COVID-19 to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
After the criticism, Kennedy tweeted the New York Post report was “mistaken” and he “never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.”
Kennedy said at at press event last week at a New York City restaurant that COVID was a genetically engineered bioweapon that could have been “ethnically targeted” to prevent deaths of Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, according to an audio tape obtained by The New York Post.
“There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy reportedly said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” Kennedy says. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.