Keller @ Large: Are RFK Jr. And His Conspiracy Theories Just Republican Trolling?

By Jon Keller, CBS Boston

July 19, 2023

BOSTON - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken heat many times for promoting conspiracy theories.

But now the Democratic presidential candidate is struggling to deflect intense blowback over recent comments about alleged ethnic targeting of the COVID-19 virus.

In video obtained by the New York Post, Kennedy - citing a July 2020 study by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic - tells a group at a dinner party: "COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. ... COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese."

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