(Headline USA) Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is schedule to testify before Congress next week on government censorship.
Kennedy will provide testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which is chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on July 20.
A description of the hearing says it will “examine the federal government’s role in censoring Americans, the Missouri v. Biden case, and Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.”
Kennedy has been outspoken about the government’s efforts to squash his free speech, especially during the pandemic when he began to speak out against COVID-19 vaccines.
The “Twitter Files” revealed that the former digital director of the White House’s COVID-19 Response Team emailed Twitter in January 2021 to request the removal of a Twitter post from Kennedy.
“Wanted to flag the below tweet and am wondering if we can get moving on the process for having it removed ASAP,” Clarke Humphrey wrote to Twitter in the January 2021 email. “And then if we can keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same ~genre that would be great.”
The tweet that Humphrey wanted removed included a link to an article about the death of former professional baseball player Hank Aaron 18 days after he received his COVID vaccine. Kennedy Jr. tweeted that Aaron’s “tragic death is part of a wave of suspicious deaths among elderly closely following administration of #COVID #vaccines.”
The White House’s censorship request was referenced in a court ruling last week barring the federal government from coordinating with social media companies to suppress citizens’ free speech.
Kennedy celebrated the decision, accusing the Biden administration of engaging in “blatant censorship.”
“The judge got it exactly right when he wrote, ‘Freedom of speech and press is the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom,’” Kennedy said. “Without freedom of speech, there is no democracy.”
