White House rips ‘vile’ RFK Jr comments COVID-19 was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews, Chinese
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasted Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s reported comments concerning COVID-19 being genetically engineered.
"If you think about the racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that come out of saying those types of things, it's an attack on our fellow citizens, our fellow Americans. And so it is important that we essentially speak out when we hear those claims made more broadly," she said. Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.
Kennedy's remarks, made during a New York City dinner last week and first reported by The New York Post, included the presidential candidate saying he didn't know whether the virus was "deliberately targeted or not," but that there were "papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact" on different groups.