RFK Jr. push back on report he said Covid-19 was ethnically targeted towards Jews who spared their lives

Longshot Democratic presidential candidate and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday morning refuted a report that quoted him as saying that Covid-19 is “targeted against whites and blacks” and that Jews are best immune.

In a report by The New York Post headlined “RFK Jr. says COVID is ‘ethnic target’ to pardon the Jews,” The video appears to show Kennedy speaking at a dinner in Manhattan.

In a discussion of biological weapons and “ethnic-targeted microbes,” Kennedy stated that “Covid-19 disproportionately attacks some races.”

Covid-19 is targeted at white and black people. According to a video posted by the Post, he said: “The most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” , are descendants of the Jews living in Central and Eastern Europe.

NBC News has not verified the video. In a statement posted on Twitter later in the day, Kennedy defended his remarks, saying they were not anti-Semitic.

“The @nypost story is misleading. I never thought the COVID-19 virus was targeting Jews who spared their lives,” Kennedy said. wrote on Twitter.

“I do not believe and never imply that the ethnic effect was deliberately designed,” he continued.

Kennedy said that “in an unrecorded conversation” he stated “that the United States and other governments are developing biological weapons to target ethnicities,” and then he mentioned to “a 2021 study of the Covid-19 virus showing that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races.”

In January 2022, Kennedy condemned for the implication that Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who fled the Nazis and ended up dying in a concentration camp, had more freedom than those living under the vaccine mandate.

Kennedy apologized and said he was “deeply sorry” for the remarks.