Source: AP

By ALI SWENSON
Published 12:42 PM CDT, July 17, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic watchdog group has called for a U.S. House committee to rescind an invitation to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the Democratic presidential candidate was filmed falsely suggesting COVID-19
could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kyle Herrig, executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project,
sent a letter to Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House
Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,
asking him to disinvite Kennedy from a hearing scheduled for Thursday
after the candidate’s comments at a New York City dinner last week
prompted widespread accusations of antisemitism and racism.

A spokesperson for Jordan said he plans to move forward with the hearing Thursday despite disagreeing with comments Kennedy made.

In the filmed remarks first published by The New York Post, Kennedy said “there is an argument” that COVID-19 “is ethnically targeted” and that it
“attacks certain races disproportionately.”

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