Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that he believes President Biden presents a greater threat to democracy than former President Trump. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Kennedy Jr. initially challenged Biden for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination before launching a White House bid as an independent in October to take on Biden and Trump in the 2024 election.
The comments come after Biden has made repeated claims that Trump is a threat to democracy over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, for which the former president has been charged at the federal level. Trump, who has falsely alleged over the past three and a half years that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him due to voter fraud, said in December that Biden is the "real threat."
CNN host Erin Burnett pressed Kennedy Jr. on how Trump's alleged role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results was not a threat to democracy. Kennedy Jr. admitted that the allegations against Trump do represent a threat to democracy, but that Biden's efforts to stifle speech are still worse.
Kennedy Jr. said Biden is a "much worse" threat to democracy than Trump because the current president has been "weaponizing" federal agencies to censor his political opponents. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
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"I think that is a threat to democracy if we're trying to overthrow the election, clearly a threat," he said. "But the question was 'Who was a worse threat to democracy?' And what I would say is I, you know, I'm not going to answer that question and argue that President Biden is because the First Amendment, Erin, is the most important."
When asked to clarify if he could make an argument that Biden is worse for U.S. democracy than Trump, Kennedy Jr. responded, "Absolutely."
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