American Values 2024, a super PAC representing Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced Friday that it raised $5 million during his testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
The organization has raised $16.25 million since it was founded in 2022, its co-founder, Tony Lyons, said in a statement, adding that the "key point" of that is that the $5 million brought in was during Thursday's testimony.
"The censorship, vilification, and targeted propaganda playbook that the DNC [Democratic National Committee] used so effectively against Bernie Sanders won’t work against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," Lyons said.
Kennedy, the son of late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of late President John F. Kennedy, both victims of assassinations, told Newsmax Thursday after his testimony that Democrats are waging a smear campaign against him and painting him as being antisemitic after he spoke out about COVID-19 and other topics.
"In my entire life, I have never uttered a single antisemitic phrase, word or anything, or racist [phrase]," Kennedy told Newsmax's Greta Van Susteren. "Because of my family, and because I've spent a lot of time in Israel, and I have an organization over there, my support for Israel is stronger than anybody on Capitol Hill."
"I've been smeared using phrases that were taken completely out of context and attributing meanings to them that I never intended, and it's a way of censoring me," Kennedy told Newsmax.
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