"RFK Jr. Campaign Retracts Fundraising Emails on January 6 Defendants' Constitutional Liberties"
The campaign of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent fundraising emails that compared the legal cases of January 6 defendants to the plight of Julian Assange, but later walked back the language, calling it an "error." The emails sought to stoke fears of government overreach and closely mirrored the rhetoric used by former President Donald Trump and his allies. Kennedy had previously argued on CNN that President Joe Biden represented a greater threat to democracy than Trump, citing concerns about freedom of speech.