Tue May 2, 2023 – 5:02 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — ABC News recently aired the first sit-down interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since he announced his intentions to seek the Democrat presidential nomination, but declined to air the portion in which Kennedy spoke out against the controversial COVID-19 vaccines.
Kennedy, nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy and son of the late Attorney General Robert Kennedy, is a longtime environmental activist and founder of the group Children’s Health Defense, who has won crossover appeal in recent years for his outspoken opposition to the COVID shots. He launched his candidacy last month, touting a focus on “end[ing] the corrupt merger of state and corporate power.”
Following the clip, interviewer Linsey Davis noted that ABC “used our editorial judgment in not including extended portions of” part of the interview in which Kennedy made unspecified, alleged “false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines” as well as “misleading claims about the relationship between vaccination and autism.”
In response, Kennedy blasted ABC for censoring a “lively, informative, and mutually respectful debate on the government’s Covid countermeasures,” said he would be “happy to supply citations to support every statement I made,”
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