RFK Jr. Says Biden Is The Threat To Democracy

Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. mentioned in an interview that he might argue President Joe Biden is a “greater menace to democracy” than Donald Trump. 

Kennedy sat with CNN’s Erin Burnett to debate his politics and the upcoming election. When Burnett requested him to offer his ideas on Trump threatening democracy, Kennedy turned his consideration to Biden.

The candidate says he could make the argument that Biden is a fair greater menace. His reasoning weighs in on censorship.

“President Biden is the primary president in historical past that has used the federal businesses to censor political speech to censor his opponent,” he mentioned. 

“I can say that as a result of I simply received a case in a federal court docket of appeals and now earlier than the Supreme Courtroom that exhibits that he began censoring, not simply me, for 37 hours after he took the oath of workplace he was censoring me. No president within the nation has ever accomplished that.” 

He refers to Murthy v. Missouri, which was filed in 2022 after Missouri and Louisiana lawyer generals, together with a number of particular person plaintiffs, accused the federal government of implementing efforts to struggle misinformation discovered on-line about COVID-19 and US elections. In line with CNN, they argued the efforts had been a type of unconstitutional censorship. 

Kennedy, recognized for his daring conspiracy theories and being a outstanding anti-vaccine activist, has been accused of spreading gossip on-line associated to vaccines and COVID-19, leading to his anti-vaccine group, The Youngsters’s Well being Protection group, being kicked off Instagram and Fb in 2022. 

Biden and Trump have gone forwards and backwards on who ought to be labeled a menace to democracy. Biden feels Trump is the problem for the position he performed within the Jan. 6 assaults on the Capitol constructing, whereas the four-time indicted businessman has continually pushed false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to voter fraud. In December 2023, he mentioned Biden is the “actual menace.”

Burnett turned the tables on Kennedy to see why he wasn’t pushing the identical narrative for Trump that he was for Biden. The presidential hopeful admitted that the Jan. 6 allegations do suggest a critical menace, however nothing can high Biden’s efforts to silence him and free speech. “I believe that could be a menace to democracy if we’re making an attempt to overthrow the election, clearly a menace,” he mentioned. 

“However the query was, ‘Who was a worse menace to democracy?’ And what I might say is I, you already know, I’m not going to reply that query and argue that President Biden is as a result of the First Modification, Erin, is an important.”