RFK Jr.: Reporters are trying to 'discredit me as a crank' by twisting my rant about COVID and Jews

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at the New York Post on Saturday after the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid revealed that he mused this week that the novel coronavirus may have been "ethnically targeted" to spare Jews.

Kennedy, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a Democratic candidate for the presidency, took to Twitter to slam New York Post reporter Jonathan Levine and accuse him of taking his remarks about COVID being a potential bioweapon out of context.

"I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews," Kennedy claimed. "I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons."

In fact, Kennedy Jr. said that "there is an argument that [COVID-19] is ethnically targeted," although he did acknowledge that "we don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted."

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After clarifying that he only meant that COVID-19 was a "proof of concept" for a Jew-sparing bioweapon, he argued that reporters had twisted his words in an effort to make him sound like a madman.

"This cynical maneuver is consistent with the mainstream media playbook to discredit me as a crank — and by association, to discredit revelations of genuine corruption and collusion," he wrote.