Kennedy directly sparred with Democrats on the committee. “Virtually every statement that you just made about me is inaccurate,” Kennedy said. “I have never been anti-vax. I have never told the public to avoid vaccination,” he declared.
“He also said even in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps to Switzerland, meaning Jews in Nazi Germany had more freedoms than unvaccinated Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic,” she added.
In his opening remarks to the committee, Kennedy bemoaned what he considered to be undue suppression of his viewpoints. Kennedy rejected the notion that his claims about vaccinations were misinformation and asserted that he was in no way shape or form racist or anti-semitic. “While I’m under oath —in my entire life I have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or anti-semitic,” he declared. “I have spent my life fighting, my professional career fighting for Israel, the protection of Israel. I have a better record on Israel than anybody in this chamber today,” he added.
Kennedy’s career-worth of conspiracies about vaccines loomed heavily over the hearing, particularly his recent comments aboutIn one instance,
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