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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday suggested that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol wasn’t a “true insurrection,” expressed concern for the “harsh treatment” of those charged over their participation in the attack, and blamed “both establishment parties” for capitalizing on the incident on the campaign trail.
“I have not examined the evidence in detail, but reasonable people, including Trump opponents, tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection,” he continued. “They observe that the protestors carried no weapons, had no plans or ability to seize the reins of government, and that Trump himself had urged them to protest ‘peacefully.’”
Much of Kennedy’s statement hewed closely to Trump’s own remarks about those involved in Jan. 6. The former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee has repeatedly assailed prosecutorial efforts against him as a “weaponization” of the justice system and called those charged in the attack “patriots,” vowing to pardon many of them on his first day back in office.
“Each side claims that a victory by their opponents means the end of democracy. Then, anything is justified to stop them,” he added. “We run the risk of destroying democracy in order to save it.”that Biden is perhaps a bigger threat to democracy than Trump, with the independent candidate citing his bans from social media during Biden’s tenure — something that the president’s administration had nothing to do with.
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