House Democrats tried and failed to censor Robert Kennedy Jr., a Democratic Party candidate for president, at a hearing on censorship.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) moved to shift the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearingon Thursday to executive session “because Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last week.”
The congresswoman cited a House rule against testimony found to “defame, degrade, or incriminate” any person, which would allow the committee an aside to determine whether to allow such testimony during the open hearing. Wasserman Schultz referred to remarks Kennedy recently made about COVID-19 being “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, which the candidate says has been misconstrued.
