An email from “Team Kennedy” mentioning the Jan. 6 defendants and calling for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was later disavowed by the campaign, which said it did not reflect Kennedy’s views.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a César Chávez Day event he hosted in Los Angeles last week. Kennedy’s campaign used the language in an email urging his followers to sign a petition calling for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the email, titled “We Must Free Assange!,” the campaign compared those jailed for their actions on Jan. 6 to Assange and, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about top-secret U.
It’s unclear which Jan. 6 defendants Kennedy’s campaign is referring to — very few of them are in the D.C. jail, where a small percentage await trial, sentencing or transfer to a federal prison to serve out their sentences. Despite complaints from some far-right lawmakers, no court has found that the detention violated their rights..
On Thursday, the campaign said in a statement that the email was “an error that does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views.” Kennedy started his run for the presidency as a Democrat but decided in October to mount a campaign as an independent and has increasingly ramped up his attacks on Biden. The descendant of the prominent political family holds some appeal forwith committing crimes that day are in the D.C. jail. All but a few of them have been charged or convicted of assaulting police officers during the riot. Most are awaiting sentencing or transfer to a prison facility.
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