RFK Jr. Sparks Controversy with COVID Ethnic Targeting Claims

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested during a press event that COVID-19 may have been "ethnically targeted" to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. He claimed that the virus was a genetically engineered bioweapon and warned of more dire biological weapons in the pipeline. Kennedy offered no evidence to support his claims, and his remarks echo anti-Semitic conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic. Jewish organizations criticized his remarks, and experts have refuted the idea of deliberate ethnic targeting. Kennedy's campaign has drawn support from disaffected elements of both the right and left, but he remains a long-shot candidate.