Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced accusations of making antisemitic and racist remarks over the weekend after he was recorded citing a false conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was "targeted to" certain ethnicities while Chinese people and Jews of European descent were more immune.
Despite the ongoing investigation into exactly how the pandemic started, U.S. intelligence agencies, health officials and leading experts all agree that evidence does not indicate the virus was engineered.
In a brief phone interview with ABC News on Sunday, Kennedy insisted he was "appalled." He said his comments about immunity had been misunderstood, specifically over how a news report implied he was talking about some ethnicities being "spared."
He also invoked his famous family's history of supporting Israel.
"My father was in Israel prior to the creation of the Israeli state and spent his lifetime fighting for Israel, fighting for its right to exist and for a strong alliance with the United States," he said, adding, "My own campaign, one of the primary themes of this campaign is to bring the Democratic Party back to its traditional support for Israel. There's nobody who is running for president today who is a stronger champion for Israel than myself."
The New York Post on Saturday originally published a roughly two-minute clip of Kennedy's conspiracy theory comments, made during what the paper described as a press dinner in New York City on Tuesday.
In the recording,...
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