Colorado senator presses Trump’s Health and Human services nominee on 2023 comments suggesting COVID-19 may have been engineered to specifically target some ethnic groups, while leaving others, including Ashkenazi Jews, more immune.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced questions last week in the U.S. Senate regarding past comments on the COVID-19 virus and its differential impact on various ethnic groups, including Ashkenazi Jews.
During a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet took aim at a number of Kennedy’s positions and past comments on issues ranging from vaccines to AIDS to the coronavirus pandemic.
Bennet, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, questioned Kennedy over comments made during a Manhattan gathering in 2023, including claims that COVID-19’s disparate impact on various ethnic groups – including its allegedly diminished impact on Ashkenazi Jews – may have been engineered.