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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says

Democratic candidate for president Robert Kennedy Jr. after giving an address on foreign policy at St Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, 20 June.
Robert Kennedy Jr after giving an address on foreign policy at St Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on 20 June. Photograph: Cj Gunther/EPA

Robert Kennedy Jr, a long-shot Democratic candidate for US president, has a long history of racism, antisemitism and xenophobia, and should be denied a national platform, according to a damning report seen by the Guardian.

Kennedy, who provoked anger last week when he was filmed falsely suggesting that the coronavirus could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, is due to testify at the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday.

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