"Our federal agencies – which used to & are sworn to be above politics – have now become weaponized as political instruments."
“What I’ve tried to do in this campaign is to focus on issues, and focus on the values – and not focus on ad hominem attacks on people,” Kennedy recently told Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox New’s “Sunday Morning Futures”.
“And I think the issues coming up now are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,” Kennedy said when asked about Joe Biden's previously denied involvement in, and rapidly evolving business scandals.
“I mean, these revelations about the, where you had Burisma, which is a notoriously corrupt company that paid out, apparently, $10 million to Hunter and his dad. If that’s true, then it is really troubling.”
“Isn’t alleged corruption an issue that voters should be concerned about?” Bartiromo pressed.
“I think on every side it’s something that people should be concerned about, but it’s not something that I’m making a spear tip to my campaign,” Kennedy replied.
The apparent shift in opinion came after Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley released an FBI Informant File that alleged Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, after Joe Biden's well-known threat to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine until then-President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma for corruption.
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- “The Bidens were in the actual business of influence peddling. We now have Devon Archer telling the truth that Hunter Biden & Joe Biden spoke over 20 times about his business deals – not about the weather, not about what was for lunch – but about his business deals,” said one Congressman present at Monday's closed-door House Oversight & Accountability Committee testimony.
Kennedy also agreed with an assertion that federal law enforcement authorities have been politicized following Bartiromo’s declaration that the Department of Justice went after Trump officials with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants.
“Yes. I think that that’s something that every American needs to worry about, that our federal agencies – which used to be and are sworn to be above politics – have now become weaponized as political instruments.
"And again, that's another really damaging trend for our democracy,” Kennedy said.
Earlier in July, while addressing the FreedomFest 2023 in Memphis, Kennedy also noted:
“If You Have a government that can silence its critics, that government has a license for any kind of atrocity. Look no further than what they did during Covid,” adding:
- “They closed the churches, they went after freedom of assembly, they told us all, don’t go near each other.
- “They went after property rights – the 5th Amendment says you can’t do that.
- "They closed 3.3 million businesses – with no due process, no just compensation. Jeff Bezos was allowed to close down all of his competitors – and train the entire American public to buy things from Amazon. And,
- “There was a $4 trillion shift in wealth from the poor and the middle class in this country to the super-rich.”
