Joe Biden is a greater danger to US democracy than former
president and presumptive 2024 election rival Donald Trump, according to
Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, who is also running as an independent candidate, said that
Biden is the first president in US history to mobilize federal agencies
to silence his political opponents.
RT reports:
Speaking on CNN on Monday, Kennedy Jr pointed to his being blocked on
various social media platforms during Biden’s term in office and branded
this as an effort to “censor political speech” that violated
the First Amendment of America’s constitution. He also attributed the
‘censorship’ to pressure from the White House.
Pressed by CNN’s Erin Burnett on who he believes poses a bigger
threat to democracy, Kennedy stated that he still views Biden as a
bigger danger, even though Trump played a role in the January 6 riot at
the US Capitol.
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, because the First Amendment, Erin, is the most
important,” the candidate told presenter Erin Burnett.
“I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse
threat to democracy, 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, so to censor his
opponent.”
The politician’s Instagram page was suspended in 2021 over what its parent company, Meta, described as “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.” The account was reinstated in 2022, shortly after Kennedy announced his election campaign.
In December, the Supreme Court barred him from joining a challenge to
a case dealing with the Biden administration’s communication with
social media platforms over posts the government considered
disinformation. The politician also had a similar case pending in a
lower court.
Last year, Kennedy testified before the House Judiciary’s subcommittee
on the weaponization of the federal government, where he spoke as part
of a House Republicans’ inquiry into alleged social media censorship
against conservatives. The politician also made freedom of speech a
focus of his presidential campaign.
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