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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Robert F Kennedy campaign calls January 6 rioters ‘activists’ in email

Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks at an event at Union Station on 30 March 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
Robert F Kennedy Jr speaks at an event at Union Station on 30 March 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

A spokesperson for the independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr said a passage in a fundraising email that called January 6 prisoners “activists … stripped of their constitutional liberties” was the result of an error by an outside contractor.

“That statement was an error that does not reflect Mr Kennedy’s views,” the spokesperson, Stefanie Spear, told NBC News, which first reported the fundraising email. “It was inserted by a new marketing contractor and slipped through the normal approval process.”

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