Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his longshot bid to challenge U.S. President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination next year.
Kennedy, a member of one of the country's most famous political families who has in recent years been linked to some far-right figures, kicked off his campaign in Boston on Wednesday and likened his campaign to the American revolution."My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country," Kennedy said.
Kennedy Jr. was once known most as an environmental lawyer who worked on issues such as clean water. But over the past nearly two decades, he's become one of the leading voices of the anti-vaccine movement. His work has been described by members of his own family and public health experts as misleading and dangerous.
Kennedy has been a guest on Infowars, the channel run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on the "War Room" podcast hosted by longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon, where he promoted his bestselling 2021 book, "The Real Anthony Fauci," in which he accused the U.S.'s top infectious disease doctor of participating in "a historic coup d'etat against Western democracy.
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