The presidential candidate said he would appoint a special counsel to investigate possible prosecutorial misconduct if he is elected.
sent a fundraising email that called Jan. 6 rioters “activists,” it released a new statement on Friday suggesting that some of the insurrectionists may have been unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration.
Though the message, attributed to Kennedy himself, acknowledged that many of the rioters had broken the law, he said he was “concerned about the possibility that political objectives motivated the vigor of the prosecution of the J6 defendants, their long sentences, and their harsh treatment.” The note seemed to soften the candidate’s position on the Jan. 6 insurrection. Soon after publishing the “activists” email on Thursday, the campaignTo the contrary, in Friday’s missive, the candidate said the allegedly aggressive prosecutions “would fit a disturbing pattern of the weaponization of government agencies—the DoJ, the IRS, the SEC, the FBI, etc.—against political opponents.
“One can, as I do, oppose Donald Trump and all he stands for, and still be disturbed by the weaponization of government against him,” Kennedy wrote., a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee claimed he had selected her because of her wealth and was trying “to buy his way onto the ballot.”
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