House Democrats tried and failed to censor Robert Kennedy Jr., a Democratic Party candidate for president, at a hearing on censorship.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) moved to shift the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Thursday to executive session “because Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last week.”
The congresswoman cited a House rule against testimony that may tend to “defame, degrade, or incriminate” any person, which would allow the committee an aside to determine whether to allow the testimony at issue during the open hearing. In making her case, Wasserman Schultz cited, “among many other things,” comments Kennedy recently made about COVID-19, which the candidate says has been misconstrued.
“COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy claimed, according to The New York Post. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” (Read more: Daily Wire, 7/20/2023) (Archive)
This is wild… pic.twitter.com/buNN8NeKCj
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) July 20, 2023
I moved to table Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s attempt to censor @RobertKennedyJr by going into executive session. After we won the vote, Mr. Kennedy was allowed to speak. Why are they so afraid to let him be heard?https://t.co/HE2br66Iab
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 20, 2023