House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) will allow 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify at a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday despite calls from Democrats to disinvite him.
Democratic groups have called on Jordan to disinvite Kennedy after a video emerged of him suggesting that COVID-19 may have targeted certain ethnicities, while others, such as Jews, were mostly spared.
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Democrats claimed the comments were antisemitic and conspiratorial and should disqualify Kennedy from testifying. While Jordan said he disagreed with Kennedy’s comments, he declined to disinvite him from Thursday’s hearing.
“Yeah, I totally disagree with what he said, but he’s a Democrat. I disagree with other things he said too. But we’re having him because of censorship,” Jordan told Politico.
A Jordan spokesman confirmed the accuracy of the statement to the Washington Examiner.
Congressional Integrity Project Executive Director Kyle Herrig wrote a letter to Jordan demanding he disinvite Kennedy from the hearing on the grounds that “not only is he a known conspiracy theorist whose anti-vaccine views have put lives in jeopardy, a Russian propagandist who has sided with Putin over Ukraine, and a total whack job whose views and conspiracy theories would be completely ignored but for his last name, but we now have video evidence of his horrific antisemitic and xenophobic views which are simply beyond the pale.”
“This is all part of the same antisemitic pattern from you and your fellow House Republicans,” he added.
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Kennedy has denied his comments being hateful or antisemitic, tweeting, “I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.” Instead, he said he was pointing out that COVID-19 served as “proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons” because of its disproportionate effect on certain races and ethnicities.
Kennedy was invited last week to testify at the committee’s Thursday hearing examining “Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.”
