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sent out a campaign email Thursday that described defendants charged after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as “activists … stripped of their Constitutional liberties,” before abruptly retracting the comments and disavowing those who stormed the halls of Congress.
“That statement was an error that does not reflect Mr. Kennedy’s views,” the spokesperson, Stephanie Spear, told media outlets. “It was inserted by a new marketing contractor and slipped through the normal approval process.” He went on to describe Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election as “appalling,” adding: “Trying to overthrow the election clearly is a threat to democracy.”both Assange and Snowden if he’s elected president, adding he intends to leverage his presidential powers “very quickly in office.” Helast year that he would also consider pardons for those convicted for their actions on Jan. 6, but only if “prosecutorial malfeasance is demonstrated.
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