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Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesAt a Washington, D.C., rally in January 2022, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew an interesting comparison between COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the Third Reich. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he said at the time. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”It didn’t go well for him. Kennedy’s comments earned condemnation from the Auschwitz Museum and his own wife, actress
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesAt a Washington, D.C., rally in January 2022, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew an interesting comparison between COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the Third Reich. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he said at the time. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”It didn’t go well for him. Kennedy’s comments earned condemnation from the Auschwitz Museum and his own wife, actress
The candidate is taking another shot at putting together a star-studded event after a dismal celebrity showing at his 70th birthday fundraiser last month.
Reuters/Rebecca Noble"Last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Super PAC promoted a 70th birthday fundraiser for the candidate, promising that it would feature celebrity guests Dionne Warwick, Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson, and Andrea Bocelli.But the gathering hit a snag when the A-Listers declared that, no, they had not actually agreed to attend. “I certainly won’t be there,” Warwick scoffed in a post on X. In the end, even Kennedy himself skipped the event.The candidate is hoping for redemption with a l