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From: Wharf Rat7/20/2023 3:14:02 PM
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'He vaccinated all his children' House Democrat blows a hole in RFK Jr.’s anti-vax arguments (msn.com)

Story by Brandon Gage • 39m ago







United States Representative Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) blew a hole in Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine stance during a House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Thursday.

Lawmakers on Tuesday were urged by the Congressional Integrity Project to disinvite Kennedy over fears that giving him a microphone would be an opportunity for Kennedy to double down on conspiracy theories, such as his claims that COVID-19 was "targeted to infect" Black and Caucasian people at a higher rate than other population groups.

But Plaskett presented evidence that Kennedy's anti-vax views did not apply to his immediate family.

"You know, Mr. Kennedy's own family decries his stance on vaccines and families disagree on a lot of things," Plaskett said while grilling Kennedy. "I got family members that, you know, we all disagree, so that doesn't mean anything. But the fact that he has famously sent a request to a party guest that they had to be vaccinated to come to his party, and I'd like to introduce into the record a letter from Lewis Silken — a law firm representing Mr. Kennedy — which states, as he has stated repeatedly, he vaccinated all his children. And I'd like that to be introduced into the record."

Meanwhile, Plaskett continued, Kennedy "tells the Black community and myself, a mother of five Black children, that I should really be careful and not necessarily have the same safeguards to protect my family, my children, from a virus that has killed millions of people because I'm Black. There's no secret that this is an amplification of his own platform."

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