RFK Jr. Says ‘I Won’t Take Sides on 9/11’ in Bizarre Nod to Conspiracy Theorists

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested the facts surrounding the panic attacks of September 11, 2001, weren’t close successful a caller tweet connected Friday. And portion it’s acold from the weirdest conspiracy mentation Kennedy has publically floated, it’s definite to energize his basal arsenic helium campaigns to beryllium president arsenic an autarkic candidate.

“My instrumentality connected 9/11: It’s hard to archer what is simply a conspiracy mentation and what isn’t,” Kennedy tweeted Friday morning. “But conspiracy theories flourish erstwhile the authorities routinely lies to the public. As President I won’t instrumentality sides connected 9/11 oregon immoderate of the different debates. But I tin committedness is that I volition unfastened the files and usher successful a caller epoch of transparency.”

Kennedy, who’s ne'er held elected bureau and is lone a nationalist fig due to the fact that he’s the nephew of a erstwhile president, has antecedently said helium hasn’t studied the events of 9/11 intimately but doesn’t judge the authoritative communicative astir the illness of World Trade Center Building 7. The National Institute of Standards and Technology recovered that the illness of the gathering occurred due to the fact that it endured 7 hours of fires started by the illness of World Trade Center Tower 1. But Kennedy, similar different alleged 9/11 Truthers, doesn’t judge that explains what really happened.

During an interrogation past twelvemonth with Peter Bergen, the big of the podcast In the Room, Kennedy said “there’s pictures of it collapsing. There’s thing collapsing connected apical of it.” Bergen pointed retired determination were tens of thousands of witnesser interviews conducted corroborating the findings that Building 7 collapsed owed to fire.

NIST spent three years intensively studying the origin of the illness and recovered that astatine slightest 10 floors were connected fire. And portion the building’s adjacent proximity to Tower 1 (just 370 feet away) is pugnacious to admit successful galore quality videos of the collapse, it’s perfectly logical that Building 7 would person sustained terrible damage.

Conspiracy theorists judge Building 7 was destroyed utilizing hidden explosives enactment determination by the U.S. government, conscionable arsenic they judge that’s the existent origin for the 2 towers collapsing. But each mentation astir hidden bombs falls isolated nether scrutiny, particularly erstwhile you conscionable measurement backmost and see what everyone saw with their ain eyes. Planes were flown into the towers, which caused specified demolition that aft burning for agelong enough, the gathering collapsed nether its ain weight. If the U.S. authorities were truly readying a mendacious flag, wherefore not conscionable usage bombs and blasted it connected terrorists?

Critical reasoning evidently isn’t 1 of Kennedy’s beardown suits, but past again this is the feline who believes that vaccines origin autism–a assertion that’s been rejected by each mainstream idiosyncratic who’s looked astatine the claim.

And yet somehow, Kennedy is inactive performing good successful the polls, contempt his unhinged beliefs. FiveThirtyEight’s nationalist average presently has Kennedy polling astatine 9.8%, with President Joe Biden astatine 39.7% and Donald Trump astatine 42.2%. There’s fundamentally nary mode that Kennedy could triumph the presidency with conscionable 4 months to Election Day, but he’s attracting a ample capable stock of the ballot that helium could decidedly person an impact. The lone question is whether Kennedy steals much votes from accepted Biden supporters oregon from Trump supporters. And with Biden perchance dropping retired to beryllium replaced by different Democrat, things could get adjacent messier.