Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. maintained his stance that President Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than former President Donald Trump.
“President Biden has done something that no other president in history has done, which is to order media, particularly social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google, to censor his political opponents,” Mr. Kennedy said on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
“If you have a president who can censor his political opponents, he is the license for any kind of atrocity, that is a genuine threat to our democracy,” he added. “What President Trump said about questioning the election to the extent that he engaged in an effort to overthrow that, of course, that’s a threat to democracy, but it is not the worst threat undermining the First Amendment of our Constitution and then weaponizing the federal agencies, to get his opponents off the ballot.”
Mr. Kennedy also dealt with the issue Monday on CNN, saying, “President Biden is the first candidate in history — the first president in history — that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.”
He told Fox he has firsthand experience with Mr. Biden’s censorship.
“I can say this because I just won a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Appeals, now before the Supreme Court, because he began censoring me 37 hours after he took the oath of office, swearing to defend the Constitution,” he said.
Mr. Kennedy said silencing people who question the president’s policies is “anti-American and anti-democratic.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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