Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, he has given hours of interviews to podcasts, magazines and TV networks. He paints a dark, conspiratorial picture of the world, bristling with debunked theories, misleading claims and outright falsehoods.
Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” Kennedy told podcaster Joe Rogan last month. Antidepressants are to blame for school shootings, he mused during an appearance with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender, he told right-wing Canadian psychologist and podcaster Jordan Peterson, echoing a false assertion made by serial fabulist Alex Jones. AIDS may not be caused by HIV, he has suggested multiple times.
There's no credible evidence for any of these assertions or for Kennedy's longest-running false claims: that vaccines cause autism and are more harmful than the diseases they're designed to protect against.
Yet Kennedy is building a campaign for the highest office around these conspiracy theories and the idea that fact-checking or criticizing them amounts to censorship. His throughline is the bedrock conspiratorial premise that “they” (the government, pharmaceutical companies, the media) are lying to you, but that he is telling the truth.
—RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign is built around conspiracy theories
Robert F. Kennedy stopping for a meal at a drive-in in Bluefield, West Virginia during the campaign for his brother John F. Kennedy to become the 1960 Democratic presidential nominee.
"Le président Trump allait créer une commission sur les effets néfastes des vaccins... parce que les vaccins causaient de mauvaises choses... et j'ai dit que c'était une impasse... ne faites pas ça..." - Bill Gates
-It seemed like the media accused this politician of being antisemitic, and now he's trying to prove that he's not antisemitic by saying how great Israel is. Does that surprise you?
“It doesn't surprise me because like I said, this is the general perception that's given, very successfully done by the Zionists as a ploy gaining support and to stifle any opposition to the state of Israel, is by equating and convoluted the two concepts of Judaism and Zionism, even though it's really both contradictory and it's just so blatantly wrong.
Judaism is to serve God, to be peaceful, to be loving, to do kindness.
Zionism is a truly selfish political movement of occupying another people. So wrong, so vicious, so anti what Judaism is all about.
And it's totally humiliating to us as practicing Jews to see and hear what is being done in our name.
APAC, for instance, and the other Zionist organization, makes it a point of attempting to have every single faction in the United States or around the world, any political group, whether it's Democrats or Republicans or Independents, it really doesn't matter, they want to actually equate and convolute the issue of Judaism in the Jewish people and the state of Israel and try to create a mirage, a concept that if you're opposing the state of Israel, you're antisemitic.
And in truth, conflating Israel and Zionism, what they are doing is the greatest exacerbator of antisemitism around the world.”