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A recent hire on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign has raised eyebrows for his comments on the Jan. 6 riots. But, for a candidate who's been as willing to embrace conspiracy theories as Kennedy and has expressed muddled views on the insurrection, it's not entirely surprising. Campaign finance records show that Kennedy's campaign initially hired a company called Total Virality in March, as NBC News reported.
Given Trump's own valorization of the insurrectionists, it's no great shock that such views have not disqualified Henry from working in Republican politics: Henry served as deputy communications director for long-shot GOP primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy before the businessman dropped out of the race. But those beliefs also don't appear to have raised red flags for Kennedy, an independent candidate whose own views on Jan.
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