RFK Jr. Supports Project 2025 and the Big Lie

RFK Jr. is courting the most dangerous wings of the MAGA movement. He’s funded by the same Trump backers that want to carry out the authoritarian Project 2025 plan to destroy our freedoms. He continues to spout the Big Lie, won’t commit to accepting the 2024 election results, and compared January 6th rioters to political prisoners.

• RFK Jr. would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election. He allies himself with election deniers and says that the election system is rigged.
• RFK Jr. “left the door open” for supporting the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for an authoritarian takeover of government.
• RFK Jr. has been praised by Trump loyalists and MAGA talking heads Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and Alex Jones.
• RFK Jr. has received $25 million from banking heir and Trump donor Timothy Mellon, and millions of dollars more from other right-wing donors.
• RFK Jr. would consider pardoning the January 6th rioters and compared them to political prisoners.
• RFK Jr. has said there is “little evidence of a true insurrection” on January 6th.
• RFK Jr. said President Biden is a “much worse threat to democracy” than Donald Trump.

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• RFK Jr. would not commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election, and allies himself with 2020 election-denier activists associated with “Stop the Steal.” He has repeatedly implied that legitimate state elections regulations, party rules, and polls are “rigged.” He also alleged that election fraud took place in 2004.  
• RFK Jr. “left the door open” for supporting the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for an authoritarian takeover of government.
• RFK Jr. has been praised by MAGA right-wing talking heads:
  • Steve Bannon: “[Kennedy is] what I’ve been talking about—the anti-vax, the vaccine-hesitant, anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian … What Kennedy is talking about is the administrative state and deep state.”
  • Roger Stone: “[Kennedy] sounds a lot like Donald Trump”: “I’m extraordinarily impressed with his performance on the stump … He’s a truth teller.”
  • Alex Jones:  “[Kennedy is] a man of integrity that fights fluoride and poison shots and fentanyl and everything else ... I would support him over most RINO Republicans.”
• RFK Jr.’s Super PAC, American Values 2024, is being openly funded by extreme right-wingers, because it gives them “more bang for their buck” than donating to Trump.
  • RFK Jr. has received $25 million from banking heir Timothy Mellon, a major Trump donor who also funds anti-immigrant campaigns.
  • RFK Jr. has received millions of dollars in donations from small donors who have given to right-wingers.
  • More than 500 of RFK Jr.’s biggest donors gave to Trump in 2020.
  • RFK Jr. has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from dark-money MAGA megadonor Robert Bishop, who gave more than a million dollars to Trump and Republicans in 2016 and 2020.
• RFK Jr. has said he would consider pardoning the January 6th rioters, saying “I want to hear every side” and “I would look at individual cases.” He said “reasonable people … tell me there is little evidence of a true insurrection” and complained about the “harsh treatment” of the rioters. He cast the insurrection as a partisan feud, saying, “Both establishment parties are using J6 to pour fuel on the fire of America’s divisions.”
• RFK Jr. compared the rioters to political prisoners in a campaign email, calling them “J6 activists sitting in a Washington DC jail cell stripped of their constitutional liberties.”
• RFK Jr. said “President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy” than Donald Trump.
• RFK Jr. has repeated Russian propaganda that Putin invaded Ukraine to “de-Nazify” the country.
• RFK Jr. referred to COVID-19 health policies as “fascism” not seen “even in Hitler’s Germany,” and said that things were worse in the U.S. under COVID-19 restrictions than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
• RFK Jr. used a quote from Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Goering to justify his criticism of President George W. Bush’s foreign policy.