An activist group aligned with President Joe Biden has issued a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), demanding that he disinvite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from testifying at an upcoming hearing on the alleged weaponization of federal government offices and resources.
CIP launched a new initiative in November to push back on Republican congressional investigations of the Biden administration after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. On CIP’s website, the organization states it “will investigate the investigators, expose their political motivations and the monied special interests supporting their work, and hold them accountable for ignoring the urgent priorities of all Americans in order to smear Joe Biden and do the political bidding of Trump and MAGA Republicans.”
In their letter to Mr. Jordan, CIP cast Mr. Kennedy as a “conspiracy theorist” and “Russian propagandist,” accusing him of spreading “antisemitic and xenophobic” views, while describing Mr. Jordan’s decision to seek Mr. Kennedy’s testimony as the continuation of a “failed” effort to undermine the Biden administration.
“Your MAGA cult leader Donald Trump expects you to deliver and you and your friend [House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer] have failed spectacularly every step of the way,” CIP Executive Director Kyle Herrig wrote. “And now you think having Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testify in support of your debunked theories will somehow own President Biden and the Democrats—but in reality all you’re doing is proving to all the world what a desperate man you are.”
Kennedy Accused of Antisemitism
“I’m writing to formally call on you to disinvite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from next week’s so-called weaponization of the federal government hearing,” Herrig wrote. “Not only is he a known conspiracy theorist whose anti-vaccine views have put lives in jeopardy, a Russian propagandist who has sided with [Russian President Vladimir 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.”“COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” Mr. Kennedy said. “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.”
Kennedy Has Sued Biden Over Censorship
While Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Biden are both running as Democrats, they’ve demonstrated differing views on a number of issues, including COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and the war in Ukraine.That case, which was brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, described an instance in January of 2021 in which a White House official flagged a tweet by Mr. Kennedy and sent an email to Twitter officials stating, “Hey folks-Wanted to flag the below tweet and am wondering if we can get moving on the process of having it removed ASAP.”