His group has focused false claims at teams that could be extra vulnerable to mistrust the vaccine, together with moms and Black Americans, specialists have mentioned, which may have resulted in deaths through the pandemic.
Kennedy launched a e book in 2021, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” during which he accused the U.S.’s prime infectious illness physician of helping in “a historic coup d’etat against Western democracy” and promoted unproven COVID-19 therapies equivalent to ivermectin, which is supposed to deal with parasites, and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.
His push in opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine has linked him at occasions with anti-democratic figures and teams. Kennedy has appeared at occasions pushing the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and with individuals who cheered or downplayed the rebel on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A photograph posted on Instagram confirmed Kennedy backstage at a July 2021 Reawaken America occasion with former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and anti-vaccine profiteer Charlene Bollinger. All three have promoted the lie in regards to the 2020 election being stolen.
The photograph was posted however later eliminated by Bollinger, who has appeared with Kennedy at a number of occasions. She and her husband sponsored an anti-vaccine, pro-Trump rally close to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Bollinger celebrated the assault and her husband tried to enter the Capitol. Kennedy later appeared in a video for his or her Super PAC.
Kennedy has repeatedly invoked Nazis and the Holocaust when speaking about measures geared toward mitigating the unfold of COVID-19, equivalent to masks necessities and vaccine mandates. He has generally apologized for these feedback, together with when he advised that folks in 2022 had it worse than Anne Frank, {the teenager} who died in a Nazi focus camp after hiding along with her household in a secret annex in an Amsterdam home for 2 years.
Kennedy has at occasions invoked his household’s legacy in his anti-vaccine work, together with generally utilizing photographs of President Kennedy.
His sister Kerry Kennedy, who runs Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the worldwide rights group based by their mom, Ethel, mentioned her brother has at occasions eliminated among the content material at her request.
She advised the Associated Press in a 2021 interview her brother is “completely wrong on this issue and very dangerous.”
