The longshot Democratic presidential candidate faces a grilling from members of his own party while testifying before a GOP-led House committee.
Lauded by Republicans
Kennedy was welcomed to the hearing with a lengthy, almost reverential introduction by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, began the hearing by claiming that Kennedy had been censored by the White House just a few days into President Biden’s term. He pointed to an email sent Jan. 23, 2021, by a midlevel staffer in the Biden White House to a Twitter official.that Kennedy had written the previous day calling the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron at age 86 “suspicious” because he died a few weeks after receiving the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19.
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Democratic delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands Stacey Plaskett preside over the hearing. by the Fulton County, Ga., medical examiner's office to have been due to natural causes.Jordan, the Republican committee chair, used this as an example of “Big Government” colluding with “Big Tech” to silence views they don’t like.
he was “the first person, as the chairman pointed out, censored by the Biden administration.” He said he had also been “censored by the Trump administration,” though he did not provide an example.It took hours for any Democrat on the committee to point out that, in fact, Kennedy’s tweet about Aaron was never removed. It“How can the government actually censor anyone if there's enough freedom within these companies ... that they reject whatever request that government makes?” asked Rep.
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