Colorado senator presses Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee on 2023 comments suggesting COVID-19 may have been engineered to specifically target some ethnic groups, while leaving others, including Ashkenazi Jews, more immune.

By World Israel News Staff

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced questions last week in the U.S. Senate regarding past comments on the COVID-19 virus and its differential impact on various ethnic groups, including Ashkenazi Jews.

During a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet took aim at a number of Kennedy’s positions and past comments on issues ranging from vaccines to AIDS to the coronavirus pandemic.

Senator Bennet, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, questioned Kennedy over comments made during a Manhattan gathering in 2023, including claims that COVID-19’s disparate impact on various ethnic groups – including its allegedly diminished impact on Ashkenazi Jews – may have been engineered.

“Did you say that COVID-19 was a genetically engineered bioweapon that targets black and white people and spares Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people,” Bennet asked.

Kennedy denied that he claimed the virus was “deliberately targeted” at any ethnic group.

“I just quoted an NIH funded, an NIH published study.”

The questioning hinged on Kennedy’s phrasing of the comments during a private meeting.

“There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said at the time. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

Citing a study published by BMC Medicine, which showed greater susceptibility to COVID-19 among people with certain variants of the Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, Kennedy said it was unclear “whether it was deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.”

Days later, Kennedy rejected claims he had said COVID-19 was engineered specifically to “spare Jews.”

“I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews,” Kennedy tweeted. “I accurately pointed out…that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews.

“In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons. I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered.”

At the time, Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, defended Kennedy, saying that “recent statements have been wrongly misinterpreted to falsely claim hostility to Jews. This has caused Bobby much pain.”

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If the pandemic had been natural in origin, then so would Biden’s presidency, but if the pandemic had come out of a Chinese bio-lab, then Biden’s presidency had also come out of that same lab.

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine

Over 1 million Americans were killed by a Chinese biological weapon. That same biological attack also elected a president whose administration took the lead in covering up the attack.

And that COVID coverup also showed how an unelected and treasonous shadow government had taken control of the Biden administration and of the United States of America.

The pandemic was the most devastating attack on America since Pearl Harbor and 9/11, and determining responsibility for it was the most crucial question of the day. Early efforts to assign responsibility to Communist China had been countered with propaganda and censorship.

But by the time the Biden administration took office, the ‘lab leak’ theory arguing that Chinese tampering in a laboratory had created the pandemic could no longer be suppressed.

The National Intelligence Council was tasked with conducting a “90-day sprint” to determine the origins of COVID-19 as allegations grew that it had come out of a Chinese Communist biolab.

The head of Global Health Security for the National Intelligence Council was a former World Health Organization (WHO) consultant: a group that had been accused of being compromised by China and which had vocally denied any possibility that the virus had come from a lab.

The report was completed and Biden was briefed on the “official conclusion” that the virus was a natural phenomenon.

In reality, as the Wall Street Journal report revealed, figures on the Council deliberately withheld and suppressed materials from analysts at the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency who believed that a ‘lab leak’ was the most likely explanation.

Biden was not allowed to hear any of that information. And that really meant that he wasn’t allowed to make a meaningful decision about one of the most critical issues facing him.

What was at stake in the debate over the origins of the COVID pandemic was the president’s responsibility to confront and address the worst episode of biological warfare against the United States since WWI.

Not only was Biden mentally unable to deal with it, but a shadow government had been put into place to control his actions by denying him the information needed to reach a decision.

Rather than Biden being in charge, it was his gatekeepers who were calling the shots.

The treasonous outcome of that shadow government decision was that America never confronted the complicity of China, or the American and international organizations like WHO, in the pandemic.

And since it was that pandemic, more than anything else, that brought Biden and his political palace guard to power, the China cover-up may be no coincidence.

If the pandemic had been natural in origin, then so was Biden’s presidency, but if the pandemic had come out of a Chinese bio-lab, then Biden’s presidency had also come out of that same lab.

And figures in the shadow government surrounding Biden appeared determined to cover it up.

As the Biden administration’s final days wind down, more figures from the administrations have described how the man officially serving as president was actually inside a political cocoon, out of contact with his Senate-confirmed cabinet members, with all interactions controlled by a small group of staffers who were the ones who appeared to be making all of the decisions.

A previous Wall Street Journal article described “relatively infrequent and often tightly scripted” interactions with Cabinet members. Cabinet members were discouraged from requesting calls with the president and instead received “decisions” that they were expected to carry out.

The usual protocol was for cabinet members to meet with “a member of the president’s senior staff” who would then, allegedly, “bring the issue to the president and report back”.

Whether or not the issues were ever even brought to Biden is unknown, but the occupant of the Oval Office had declined so badly that he needed note cards and prompts to tell him where to go and what questions to answer, and his ‘decisions’ were being scripted on both ends.

For four years, cabinet members, high-ranking members of Congress and key figures in the government, had little to no contact with the president, but were tasked with implementing decisions that were being delivered to them by staffers and advisers engaged in a palace coup.

It was these staffers and advisers who were the ones actually running the country. Much like President Woodrow Wilson’s wife Edith, during his incapacity, they controlled what the president heard, what he knew and what he said.

With Biden relying heavily on note cards and prompts, this treasonous shadow government made him a prisoner of the White House.

And there is every reason to believe that they are still the ones making all the decisions.

This ‘sanctuary insurrection’ seized control of the White House and the executive branch of the United States government by impostors who used the president’s power in his absence.

And none have dared call it what it is… treason.

The usurpation of presidential powers by a palace coup was an attack on constitutional government.

Instead of employing the 25th Amendment to report Biden’s mental incapacity, an inner circle of staffers and advisers set up a shadow government whose purpose was to prevent anyone on the outside from learning about his incapacity while allowing them to run the country.

Beyond COVID, we do not know how all of the administration’s specific policies were impacted by this shadow government, but it should be assumed that every presidential policy went through this same funnel process and that America has been run by this treasonous palace coup.

The next step must be to identify the members and participants in the palace coup, to subpoena members of the administration, establish the point at which Biden became incapacitated and the shadow government assumed power, invalidate all decisions made from that point on, and indict the participants in the shadow government who treasonously usurped the powers of the president.

And by usurping presidential powers, they also usurped representative government.

The palace coup was carried out not just against one failing man, but against the American people. Biden may leave office, but that alone will not repair the damage that has been done.

Americans do not elect staffers, they elect candidates. In the physical or mental absence of a legislator or president, his or her staffers have no constitutional authority to run the government.

Biden’s mental incapacity was one man’s failure, but by covering it up, it became systemic treason. Even though the media lied about Biden’s mental state, most Americans could see that he was incapable. And they lost trust in a government that was no longer representative.

America had no president for four years. The next administration will be tasked with not only fixing the economy and national defense, but with restoring a constitutional government.

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After first meeting between Netanyahu and Biden was cancelled over the president’s COVID infection, the two appear poised for sit-down after Biden’s quarantine is completed.

By World Israel News Staff

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-anticipated face-to-face meeting is back on this week according to Israeli media reports, after their initial plans for a meeting were axed after the president was diagnosed with COVID.

Netanyahu arrived in Washington D.C. Monday together with his wife, Sara, and a delegation which included relatives of Israelis held captive in the Gaza Strip, as well as former hostage Noa Argamani and her father, Yaakov Argamani.

The Israeli premier is slated to address a special joint session of Congress Wednesday, and had been scheduled to meet with Biden a day earlier, amid concerns in the White House that Netanyahu could use his address to criticize the administration’s handling of the Gaza war and the restrictions placed on the transfer of some weaponry to Israel.

Tuesday’s meeting was ultimately cancelled, however, after the president was diagnosed with COVID-19, prompting Biden to temporarily self-isolate at his private residence in Delaware.

On Monday, a day after bowing out of the 2024 presidential race, Biden announced that he would be staying “out of people’s hair for the next three-four days,” citing his COVID infection.

A U.S. official said Monday night, however, that a new meeting has been arrangement between Biden and Netanyahu during the prime minister’s stay in Washington.

The two leaders are now slated to meet on Thursday, a day after Netanyahu’s address to Congress.

On Tuesday, a report by The Times of Israel citing an unnamed American official echoed the claim.

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12, President Biden will also meet with relatives of American captives held in Gaza Thursday.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who received Biden’s endorsement Sunday for the Democratic presidential nomination, will not attend Netanyahu’s address Wednesday, an aide told Politico, but will meet Netanyahu.

During their planned meeting, the aide said, Harris will convey “her view that it is time for the war to end in a way where Israel is secure, all hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can enjoy their right to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.”

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