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RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. is a MAGA-backed candidate who is bankrolled by billionaires to help reelect Donald Trump.
RFK Jr.'s platform is extremely dangerous: he pushes conspiracy theories that divide our country, has made millions of dollars opposing vaccines, and has a history of anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-Semitic remarks.
REJECT RFK JR.
FACT:
Bankrolled
by MAGA Republicans
MAGA $$
RFK Jr.’s spoiler campaign is powered and bankrolled by MAGA Republicans who see him as a means to an end: Re-electing Donald Trump.
RFK Jr.’s super PAC has received $20 million from a racist Trump supporter – half its total haul to date.
FACT: Billionaire Timothy Mellon is the single biggest funder of RFK Jr., and simultaneously donated millions to reelect Trump.
FACT: Mellon’s autobiography includes hideous racial stereotypes about Black people. RFK Jr. refused to denounce the comments, saying it was “a good thing” Republicans like Mellon were donating to his super PAC.
Even a small number of RFK Jr. votes helps Trump win. That’s why Republicans – including big supporters of George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene – are fueling his campaign.
FACT: The third party vote in 2016 was twice the size of Biden's margin of victory in Wisconsin in 2020, four times larger in Georgia, and six times larger in Arizona. By switching to RFK Jr., these voters could hand the White House back to Donald Trump.
FACT: Trump acolyte Steve Bannon spent “months” encouraging RFK Jr. to jump into the race, hoping he could serve as a “useful chaos agent.” The MAGA backers and billionaires know he can’t win, RFK Jr. knows it too. Plain and simple, he is a spoiler to help Trump get reelected.
FACT:
Backed A National Abortion Ban
RFK Jr. is in lockstep with Republicans when it comes to a woman’s right to control her body and defending access to IVF.
RFK Jr. said he would sign a national 15-week abortion ban if elected president, the same ban being pushed by Mike Pence and Lindsay Graham.
FACT: RFK Jr. said he would sign a 15-week abortion ban as president, similar to Mike Pence and Lindsay Graham. “Every abortion ultimately is a tragedy,” he told the Washington Post.
FACT: RFK Jr. denied women have a fundamental right to abortion, arguing instead that the government should have a role in this deeply personal decision. “The state has an interest in protecting the child,” he told NBC.
RFK Jr. refused to defend access to IVF, even after the draconian Alabama Supreme Court decision.
FACT: A full week after the Alabama Supreme Court’s personhood ruling declaring that frozen embryos are people and blocking all IVF treatment in the state, RFK Jr. “would not say when he thinks life begins.”
FACT: His campaign even refused to say if he disagreed with the court’s decision.
FACT: When asked what he would do to protect abortion access and reproductive rights by the Washington Post, Kennedy said: “I don’t know, you tell me. What should I be doing?”
FACT:
RFK Jr. Has A Major “Ick” Factor
RFK Jr is anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and proudly associates with the worst of the MAGA crowd, far-right conspiracy theorists and sexual predators.
FACT: Like Infowars’ Alex Jones, RFK Jr. believes chemicals in our water turn children gay. He’s also said AIDS is caused by a “gay lifestyle,” and falsely claimed that early AIDS victims died because they were “addicted to poppers.”
FACT: RFK Jr. supports Texas’s inhumane efforts to place deadly traps for migrants, actions that have resulted in the deaths of women and children fleeing violence.
FACT: RFK Jr. spent years cultivating a following on the far-right fringes of society – speaking at far-right Christian nationalist conferences, joining rallies with QAnon supporters, appearing on Alex Jones’ Infowars show, and cozying up to Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.
FACT: RFK Jr. brags about his close relationships with notorious sex offenders. He flew multiple times on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane and socialized with convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein as well as alleged sexual predator Bill Cosby.
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FACT:
Profiting off of deadly medical misinformation
FACT: RFK Jr. has pushed anti-vax disinformation campaigns specifically targeted at minority communities, including producing a film attempting to scare Black Americans away from vaccines at the height of COVID and claiming the measles vaccine is “genetically modified to attack Black and Latino boys.”
FACT: RFK Jr. claims “people with African blood react differently to vaccines than people with Caucasian blood.”
FACT: He even claimed COVID is “ethnically targeted” to attack white and Black people while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people are “most immune.”
FACT: Just like Donald Trump, RFK Jr. pushed bogus, discredited COVID treatments, including the horse worm medication ivermectin and anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.
FACT: RFK Jr. spread so much dangerous and racist medical misinformation, he and his bogus health organization were kicked off of social media. They were denounced as “absolutely a racist operation” by the Founder of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
RFK Jr. has made millions of dollars exploiting his famous name to push racist and deadly conspiracy theories about vaccines, while at the same time vaccinating himself and his kids.
RFK Jr. and his Children's Health Defense were denounced as “absolutely a racist operation”
— Dr. Richard Allen Williams,
Founder of the Association of Black Cardiologists
FACT:
MAJOR THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
RFK JR. IS THREATENING TO HAND THE WHITE HOUSE BACK TO DONALD TRUMP, WHO IS COMMITTED TO ROLLING BACK VITAL EFFORTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE.
RFK Jr. was thrilled at the prospect of joining Trump’s first administration, which was an unmitigated disaster for the environment. A second Trump administration could have a profoundly negative impact on the fight against climate change:
FACT: Trump’s first administration dismantled major climate policies and rolled back more than 100 rules governing clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals.
FACT: If he wins a second term, Trump’s agenda is expected to be guided by the conservative Heritage Foundation, whose “Project 2025” vision calls for disbanding the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Clean Energy Corps, and eviscerating existing climate programs while increasing our reliance on fossil fuels.
FACT: Trump himself has vowed to approve a glut of new gas export terminals currently paused by President Biden and roll back electric vehicle mandates.
RFK Jr. undermines important environmental causes and spreads mistrust of climate science by conflating them with conspiracy theories he pushes for his personal profit.
FACT: RFK Jr. claims the EPA is “run by the oil industry,” yet he collects tens of thousands of dollars every year from the very oil and gas companies he denounces.
FACT: RFK Jr. alleges “climate change is being used to control us through fear” and says regulations aimed at reducing harmful emissions amounts to “totalitarian controls,” echoing Donald Trump’s own sensational rhetoric.
FACT: RFK Jr.’s campaign is staffed with vocal climate change deniers. His communications director called global warming “an enslavement system” and claimed climate advocates are seeking a “climate change lockdown.”
RFK Jr. is an environmental hypocrite. He opposes the Inflation Reduction Act – the largest investment in reducing carbon pollution in U.S. history – and takes anti-environmental stances when it personally benefits him.
FACT: RFK Jr. wants to roll back Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and its climate change investments, which have created more than 170,000 new jobs and, along with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 1 billion tons in 2030.
FACT: RFK Jr.’s platform includes radical digital currency policies that would lead to a significant increase in the use of Bitcoin, which consumes an enormous amount of energy and produces vast quantities of carbon emissions. Despite originally claiming he was not an investor in cryptocurrency, RFK Jr.’s financial disclosures revealed that he held hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin, meaning he could financially benefit from his own crypto platform that includes exempting Bitcoin from capital gains taxes.
FACT: RFK Jr. joined the Koch Brothers in opposing a wind farm near his family’s waterfront compound that would have produced enough electricity to meet nearly 75 percent of demand on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard. Despite major environmental groups supporting the project, RFK Jr. opposed the wind farm in part because it would “damage the views.”
