Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has praised the country in recent years for allegedly using the threat of prison and organ harvesting as a means to meet green energy goals, according to unearthed comments seen by Fox. He has made some questionable statements about China. News Digital.
“They’re taking this very seriously,” President Kennedy said in 2014 about that year’s clean energy deal with China. “I don’t know if that guy is going to end up in jail and have his organs harvested or what. But they’re very, very serious.”
President Kennedy’s Commentsring of fire” was broadcast in 2014, and in response to the Obama administration’s announcement in November of the same year that it aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% compared to 2005 levels by 2025, China announced that it aims to reduce non-emissions. According to the report, fossil fuels will account for approximately 20% of all energy by 2030. white house press release at that time.
The two countries’ green energy plans were announced ahead of the Paris Climate Agreement, adopted by 195 countries in 2015.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Cesar Chavez Day event at Union Station in Los Angeles on March 30, 2024. (Tama Mario/Getty Images)
President Kennedy pledged support for the Paris Agreement in remarks on a radio show in 2014, while praising President Barack Obama’s climate policies.
“President Obama has been really extraordinary the last few months. As you said, he enacted the power plant rule, which forced the EPA and the states to set CO2 regulations,” Kennedy said in remarks on his radio show. “This is the first time we’ll be able to start,” he added.
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Asked how China intends to comply with the non-legally binding agreement, President Kennedy said that work will be divided among China’s provincial governors, who will in turn direct government officials to enforce climate change policies. Ta. Kennedy speculated that government officials could face prison terms or “organ harvesting” if they fail to carry out their duties.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (Xinhua/Shen Hong via Getty Images)
“The governor of that state is given his share, and if there is such a national commitment, the governor of that state, as you know, is given a proportionate share that he has to make to that progress. He has to find a way to implement it in his own state,” he said, before adding that government officials take their job “very seriously. He pointed out that he has reportedly been willing to harm or imprison staff members who fail.
“They lose their jobs and, you know, they get punished… and if they don’t meet these quotas, any promotions for them are blocked. And China has already started down this path. “We’re putting $175 billion into a solar business,” he continued.
President Kennedy went on to praise China’s solar panel production, which has driven down prices around the world and “effectively” ended solar panel manufacturing in the United States.
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“They’re already producing surplus solar panels, and the world is flooded with solar panels. And… as part of that kind of a side effect, the price of all our solar panels has fallen so much. “It put virtually all American manufacturers out of business, but it created an entire industry of solar equipment in this country,” he said.
“When are they [China] Once you do that, it actually gets done,” he added.
Solar panels in front of a factory in Jinjie Industrial Park in Shenmu, China, November 20, 2023. (Reuters/Colleen Howe/File Photo)
Mr. Kennedy, the son of the late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, announced his candidacy for president as a Democrat last year, then switched sides and became an independent candidate in October. This election cycle, environmental lawyers remain in the race as Democratic and Republican senators drop out, with media and voter attention now focused on former Presidents Trump, Biden and Kennedy.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Biden, Kennedy Vice Presidential Candidate Nicole Shanahan (Getty Images)
“We just need to get to 33% to win the election,” Kennedy told Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo last month. On his show “World Over” It will be broadcast on EWTN Global Catholic Network.
“We don’t need 50%. This is a three-way race, it’s really a five-way race,” he added, alluding to independent candidate Dr. Cornel West and Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, who are also running. ” he added. For the White House.
a Quinnipiac poll In a poll released last month, Kennedy had an overall approval rating of 16%, while Trump and Biden each had 37%.
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President Kennedy also made questionable comments about China last year, arguing that the United States should “de-escalate” military tensions with the communist country. The comment was condemned by experts, including a retired Army colonel.Dangerously naive.”
“The Chinese cannot and do not want to compete with us militarily,” Kennedy told X owner Elon Musk during a debate last year. “So this is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, saying, ‘Oh, China wants to be our enemy and have an arms race, but they’re not. What we need to do is put military pressure on China. It’s about alleviating.’
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He also argued that the United States should let Taiwan and China “resolve their issues independently” and that the United States should “withdraw militarily.” As war rages in Ukraine and then Israel, the world braces for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which operates as an independent country independent of China.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally at the Legends Event Center on December 20, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“We think the world is on our side, but that’s not the case. The only people we have are the ones who support our relationship with this aggressive and bellicose China. , Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, the UK and Canada,” he continued last year. “We’re pretty much isolated in the world. The rest of the world looks at us and says, ‘What on earth are we doing? Why are we going to war with China? Why are we going to fight with them?’ ”
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“They don’t want war, they want peace, they want prosperity. That can’t happen where there is war,” he said.
Retired Army Colonel John Mills condemned the remarks in comments to The Epoch Times, saying President Kennedy was “dangerously naive about China’s malign actions.”
“I’m a little confused by his comments,” Mills added. “He has strong opinions about viruses and vaccines. So where does he think the virus came from? That’s a bit contradictory.”
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Kennedy’s campaign said Wednesday that current policies with China put Taiwan at “greater risk,” but did not address his 2014 comments about “organ harvesting.”
The camp argued, “The experts are wrong. The current policy of confrontation with China is exposing Taiwan to greater danger by turning it into a pawn in geopolitical power games.”
Fox News Digital’s Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.
