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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eric Garcia

Republicans under fire for hosting Robert F Kennedy Jr on the Hill in wake of antisemitism claims

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Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise defended a decision to bring Robert F Kennedy Jr to testify on Capitol Hill despite the noted anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and presidential candidates’s antisemitic remarks.

Mr Kennedy will testify before the the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that House Republicans set up earlier this year. The hearing is ostensibly about examining “federal government’s role in censoring Americans” and “Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.”

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