Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disavows an electronic mail that spoke sympathetically of Jan. 6 protesters.
The fundraising message — despatched on Thursday and titled “We Must Free Assange!” — made a passing remark in assist of these sentenced for participation within the riot at the Capitol.
“This is the reality that every American Citizen faces — from Ed Snowden, to Julian Assange to the J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their Constitutional liberties,” the fundraising electronic mail learn. “Please help our campaign call out the illiberal actions of our very own government.”
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Philadelphia.
RFK’s marketing campaign shortly blamed the message on a third-party vendor and stated the e-mail is just not in keeping with Kennedy’s views.
“That statement was an error that does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views,” stated Kennedy spokesperson Stefanie Spear. “It was inserted by a new marketing contractor and slipped through the normal approval process.”
She added, “The campaign has terminated its contract with this vendor.”
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Trump supporters occupy the West Entrance of the Capitol and the inauguration stands on Jan. 6, 2021. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photographs)
The Kennedy marketing campaign didn’t make clear which firm was chargeable for the e-mail.
The therapy of whistleblowers Julian Assange and Edward Snowden has develop into a daily speaking level for Kennedy after releasing a video petition this week.
Kennedy launched the petition Monday, calling on President Biden to pardon Snowden, who in 2013 famously visited Hong Kong and uncovered classified NSA documents that exposed the U.S. authorities was spying on its residents. He was then charged with espionage and theft of presidency property.
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Julian Assange’s attorneys are on their closing U.Ok. authorized problem to cease the WikiLeaks founder from being despatched to america to face spying costs. (AP)
“Snowden performed a critical public service by revealing to Americans for the first time that our government had been spying on us, millions of law-abiding American citizens, in violation of numerous laws and of our fundamental right to privacy,” Kennedy stated in a video connected to the petition.
The presidential hopeful has beforehand stated he would pardon Snowden and Assange, an Australian writer held in a maximum security London prison and combating extradition to the U.S. on espionage costs for publishing categorised navy paperwork in 2010.
“It’s time that we return our government to the democratic and humanitarian ideals that we’ve always represented as a nation,” Kennedy Jr. stated. “Let’s go back to championing free speech and celebrating truth-tellers and the whistleblowers who put their careers and their own freedom on the line to protect ours.”
Fox Information Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
