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NBC News reports: Kerry Kennedy, a sister of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasted her brother in a brief statement Monday after a report that quoted him as saying Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are most immune. “I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid …

Popular Information reports: Through June 30, Kennedy’s campaign has collected the maximum, $6,600, from 96 individuals. Of that group, 37 individuals have previously only donated to Republican candidates for federal office. Only 19 have a history of consistently supporting Democratic candidates. The remainder either have no giving history (30), have donated to members of both parties (8), or supported Libertarian …

“I agree with Bobby Kennedy on a lot of things. But I tell you what, I think there’s a lot of Republicans that have been fooled by him. He’s not a Republican, everyone. He’s very much a Democrat. And some of his policies are far, far left. They’re not the policies I want. They should not be the policies that …

The New York Post reports: Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically …

“You’ve gone viral not only with your message, but just your sheer masculinity. I mean you’ve got those workout videos that are floating around. I mean, that — what did that video teach you about the state of American politics in 2023?” – Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy, speaking this morning to RFK Jr., who is surprisingly open to …

Axios reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s team is bucking Democratic Party tradition by selling campaign merchandise not made in America or by union labor, Axios has found. The move is out of step with Kennedy’s stated commitment to labor unions and — along with his anti-vaccination views — could complicate his long-shot primary challenge of President Biden. “Kennedy 2024” T-shirts …

The New York Times reports: A political action committee supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has raised a total of $10.25 million, one of its leaders said on Monday, a signal that his long-shot challenge to President Biden has gained traction among donors, including many Republicans. The precise level of fund-raising by the super PAC, American Values 2024, will …

Semafor reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t run for office before in part because he couldn’t afford it. That’s what Kennedy told then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, when Kennedy was considering running to replace him in 2006, Spitzer, the former New York governor, recalled. In a meeting in Spitzer’s office, Kennedy asked whether he could continue to give paid …

The Hill reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to criticize former President Trump on Wednesday night and said he was flattered by recent comments from Trump praising him as a “common-sense guy.” He then went a step further, expressing pride that he has received positive affirmations recently from Trump, who is embroiled in legal troubles as the leading Republican presidential …

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): It’s okay to cry, my fellow guys. A survey finds that 71% of modern men confess to being in touch with how they feel and 82% of women are saying the same thing. I can’t even see who this survey is. 37% of men say being called sensitive would be a compliment …

The Daily Beast reports: In an interview with The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson, [former Rep. Dennis] Kucinich said calling RFK Jr. anti-vax is “a left-handed smear” and “a clipped assessment that has been used for political purposes by the adherents of the pharmaceutical industry who want to engage in a sort of absurd reductionism.” Instead, he suggested, Kennedy Jr. stands for …

Via press release from Robert Kennedy Jr: Mr. Kennedy will meet with leading critics of prevailing health policy including Dr. Joe Mercola, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Patrick Gentempo, Maureen McDonnell, Del Bigtree, Mikki Willis, Sayer Ji and others. Anticipate a lively give-and-take involving topics rarely addressed in mainstream policy conversations. Mr. Kennedy is known for his controversial …

“He knows what he’s talking about even if he’s somebody who at the end of the day you’re not entirely convinced of all of his views. About which politician could you say that? That you’re convinced of all of his views? That the politician is bereft of any conspiracies and the like? He’s not actually running for president on the …

“Do you worry about that? Because I see that as sort of the the next big fight. Those viruses don’t see any borders and their relatively cheap to do — there’s gain of function. That’s what I worry about more than the big hardware. And we know that the Chinese are developing ethnic bio weapons, bio weapons that are designed …

“There’s a lot of people that said it is not a virus. The virus is a passenger virus, and these people are dying mainly because of poppers. A hundred percent of the people who died in the first thousand [with] AIDS were people who were addicted to poppers, which are known to cause Kaposi sarcoma in rats. “And they were …

“WiFi radiation is — does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer. Yeah, from your cell phone. There’s cell phone tumors, you know that. I’m representing hundreds of people who have cell phone tumors behind the ear. “It’s always on the ear that you favor with your cell phone. We have the science, so if anybody let us in …

“I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated on that how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing. I mean, they’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today, and many of those are endocrine disruptors. There’s atrazine throughout our water …

The Washington Post reports: Instagram on Sunday lifted its suspension against the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken anti-vaccine activist and nephew of the late president John F. Kennedy, who is running for president as a long shot Democratic challenger to President Biden. The platform removed Kennedy’s account in 2021 for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus …

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: Dennis Kucinich, the former Cleveland mayor and U.S. congressman, has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign. Kennedy, the son of the former U.S. attorney general and environmental lawyer who’s become well known as an anti-vaccine activist, is mounting a longshot challenge against President Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic primary. Kucinich, who ran for …

NBC News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. will not participate this weekend in a far-right Christian nationalist conference he has previously attended, his spokesperson said, despite being listed as a featured speaker on the event’s website. Kennedy, best known for his skepticism of vaccines and heterodox political views, has previously participated in the ReAwaken America tour. This year’s …