FACT CHECK: RFK Jr. Continues Gaslighting Senators At Senate HELP Committee Hearing
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... In his opening statement at his Senate HELP Committee confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his lies from yesterday regarding his anti-vaccine record. For years, Kennedy has fueled disinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccinations that have had deadly consequences. He has been a leading anti-vaccine voice for decades, spreading false information about vaccines and autism that led to a full-blown measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, primarily infants and children. But we have the receipts:
- - - "There's no vaccine that is safe and effective." [Lex Fridman Podcast #388, Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning', 7/6/23, VIDEO]
- - - "Our job is to resist and to talk about it to everybody ... I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, Better not get him vaccinated.' And he heard that from me. If he hears it from 10 other people, maybe he won't do it ... " [The Way Forward with Alec Zeck, HFfH: The State of Health Freedom with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.', 9/3/21, AUDIO]
- - - "I do believe that autism comes from vaccines." [Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime', 7/10/23, VIDEO]
- - - "They're trying to get at your baby. And force him to take their vaccines. And give him a lifetime dependency." [Speech, Texans for Vaccine Choice Rally in Austin, Texas, 5/4/19]
- - - "They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone. This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country." [Speech, Trace Amounts' Screening in Sacramento, California, 4/7/15]
- - - "The COVID shots are a crime against humanity." [Robert F. Kennedy Jr., X, 12/12/22]
- - - "The digitalized economy? We get rid of cash and coins. We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve!" [RFK Jr., Instagram via Forbes, 8/15/20] ...
