Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy\, Jr. said Monday that he believes President Biden presents a greater threat to democracy than former President Trump. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Published April 2, 2024
Kennedy accused Biden of ‘weaponizing’ federal agencies to censor his political opponents
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that he believes President Bidenpresents a greater threat to democracy than former President Trump.
Kennedy Jr. said during an appearance on CNN’s “OutFront” that Biden is a “much worse” threat to democracy than Trump because the current president has been “weaponizing” federal agencies to censor his political opponents.
“I can make the argument that President Biden is much worse,” Kennedy Jr. said. “And the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech or censor his opponent.”
“The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns but a President of the United States who will use the power of his office to force the social media companies Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, to open a portal and give access to that portal to the FBI, CIA, the IRS, the NIH, to censor his political critics,” he added.
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Published April 2, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said Monday that President Biden may be a “greater threat to democracy” than former President Trump, citing his own legal battle against the Biden administration over social media censorship.
Kennedy said in a CNN interview with Erin Burnett on Monday that he could “make an argument” that Biden is worse, although he acknowledged that Trump is also a threat.
President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy,” he said. “And the reasons for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech.”
Kennedy is suing the Biden administration over the administration’s request that his social media accounts be restricted in 2021.
He posted misinformation claiming that baseball legend Hank Aaron died from complications of the COVID vaccine, which is not true, according to medical experts.
He won an injunction on the case last month, but it was stayed to await a pair of Supreme Court cases ruling on the executive branch’s authority to urge social media censorship brought by GOP attorneys general.
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RELATED: RFK Jr. rebuked for calling Biden bigger threat to democracy than Trump
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Los Angeles last month. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Published April 2, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly advanced an argument Monday that President Biden poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump, a comment that drew swift rebukes from several historians and experts.
Kennedy, speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday night, criticized the Biden administration’s push for social media companies to monitor their platforms for medical misinformation. Kennedy was temporarily banned by Instagram for spreading misinformation online about vaccines. Kennedy claimed Biden was “censoring me” and is “weaponizing federal agencies.”
He added that Trump — who has alarmed some experts with rhetoric and stances they have compared to authoritarian leaders, plotted a more extreme second term and inspired his supporters to fight the results of an election he continues to falsely claim was stolen — is not as significant a threat to democracy.
“Him trying to overthrow the election clearly is a threat to democracy,” Kennedy said of Trump. “But the question was, who is a worse threat to democracy and what I would say is … I’m not going to answer that question, but I can argue that President Biden is.”
