Kennedy human rights stand if with our 50-plus year track record of protecting rights and standing against racism and all forms of discrimination. i should add that joe kennedy iii, who used to serve in the house, also said, my uncle s comments were hurtful and wrong. i unequivocally condemn what he said. for the kennedy clan to come out like that, it says something. it definitely says something. we re almost losing track of the statements and numbers of times they ve had to come out since he announced his bid for president and before then. what is he trying to do here? there are many people close to the kennedy family and others who think he s trying to raise money. there s an audience for what he s saying, in some respects, and he s trying to have a platform for all this. he s not really running much of a presidential campaign. you don t see him holding many events or other things, which the white house probably is grateful for, because there are some people looking for an alter
Recent weeks but ones he s made in recent years. this really is about the kennedy dynasty and the divisions with rfk alone in this situation. that s right. sort of strangely the only kennedy is louisiana senator kennedy who has no relation. the kennedy family has receded from political view, in part because the member of the family that looked the most promising, joe kennedy iii waged a failed senate bid to unseat ed markey, rather embarrassing defeat. you have that as the context. out of almost nowhere comes rfk jr. running this presidential campaign in the primary against joe biden which is giving a platform to all of these views. the kennedy family, i m told by those who know them, that this is vexing them. they are not going there on the candidacy yet but you see them sort of choosing these moments to very clearly repudiate what
Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was accused of antisemitic remarks about COVID-19 , his family is speaking out, and a Democratic watchdog group is calling on a US House committee.