Kennedy and Jan 6

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly dismissed the severity of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol over the last year, based on a series of interviews reviewed by NBC News.

“What’s the worst thing that could happen? Right?” Kennedy asked in October on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast. “I mean, we have an entire military, Pentagon, a few blocks away.”

“Then, you know, put the ones who broke the law in jail and let’s move on,” he added.

Kennedy's campaign released a lengthy statement Friday afternoon in which he said that Jan. 6 "is one of the most polarizing topics on the political landscape. I am listening to people of diverse viewpoints on it in order to make sense of the event and what followed. I want to hear every side."

Kennedy's statement said that while it's "clear" that many people broke the law on Jan. 6, "I am concerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment." He added that if elected president he will "appoint a special counsel — an individual respected by all sides — to investigate whether prosecutorial discretion was abused for political ends in this case."

In an interview last month on Fox News, Kennedy said that if elected president, he would “look at individual cases” when asked about potentially pardoning Jan. 6 rioters.

Last spring, Kennedy bemoaned Democrats’ “obsession” with the Jan. 6 attack.

“To me, it’s much more serious if we’re starting to censor free speech. You can rebuild a Capitol,” Kennedy said on another podcast, The Jimmy Dore Show.

On Thursday, as first reported by NBC News, Kennedy’s campaign walked back a fundraising email to supporters that referred to Jan. 6 defendants as “activists” who have been “stripped of their Constitutional liberties,” echoing Trump’s rhetoric about the 2021 riot.

Kennedy spokesperson Stephanie Spear later said the language was an “error.”

I'm curious whether he thinks his uncle was deleted on purpose by the government he's trying to be part of?

I'm curious whether he thinks his uncle was deleted on purpose by the government he's trying to be part of?

He is very pro Zionist. His dad was assassinated by a Palestinian upset about about his dad’s support of sending fighter jets to Israel and general support of Israel. I am curious about that connection.

So was EVERY U.S. president, and every other major candidate for POTUS (Dem, or GOP), since 1948. Why Sirhan, or anyone else, then or now, would single out either RFK senior, or Junior, about that is not obvious to me. Its like assassinating someone because they breath oxygen.

His dad, too.