The battle against censorship could soon be at the forefront of a potential Trump administration, according to former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance.
RFK Jr., speaking on the Sunday edition of Fox News Sunday, and Vance, speaking on NBC News’s Meet the Press also on Sunday, hinted at what could be a significant offensive against the dystopian government censorship regime if Trump emerges victorious in 2024 and if RFK Jr. is called to serve in some capacity.
Speaking with Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, RFK Jr. said that Trump’s eagerness to dismantle censorship was one of the primary issues that led him to endorse the Trump-Vance ticket ahead of the upcoming election.
“The broad issues that were most important to me, the ones that brought me into the campaign, which was ending the Ukraine war, ending the censorship and protecting children's health were all, reforming our food supply — all the things that we need to do to make our children healthy again — those are all things that President Trump also wanted to work on,” RFK Jr. said.
RFK Jr. then affirmed that Trump had invited him to “form a unity government,” and that while the two may disagree on other policies, the fight against censorship is among those issues most “important for unifying our country.”
Vance echoed RFK Jr.’s concerns about censorship during an interview with NBC News anchor Kristen Walker on Sunday, where he was asked about potential reservations against the endorsement.
“There are things that Robert Kennedy said that I disagree with. I’m sure there are things that he’s said, that I’ve said — excuse me — that he’s going to disagree with, but I think what his endorsement represents is that Donald J. Trump's Republican Party is a big tent party,” Vance said.
The Republican vice presidential hopeful pointed to his own family history to show how censorship is an issue that unites Americans across the political spectrum:
“I was raised by two grandparents who are blue dog Democrats. They believed in having a border. They believed that, you know, you shouldn't have censorship in the United States of America. They believed in common sense economic policies. They may have disagree with Donald Trump about tax policy, but they believed in some fundamental American values, and I think what RFK’s endorsement really shows is that the Kennedy Democrats are actually more at home in the Republican Party of Donald Trump.”
Vance’s remarks followed RFK Jr.’s suspension of his third-party presidential bid, which he suggested failed due to rampant censorship by Big Tech companies, the legacy media and the federal government.
“When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it is an attack on our most sacred right of free expression, and that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest,” RFK Jr. said during a press conference on Friday, where he also endorsed Trump.
According to data from MRC’s unique CensorTrack database, RFK Jr. had been censored at least 35 times in one year. At least two MRC studies of Google Search results revealed that his presidential campaign website did not appear in the first top then results.
RFK Jr.’s candidacy was marred by censorship even before he formally announced it. MRC launched an investigation into allegations by RFK Jr. that social media giant Meta had banned his Instagram account. This account was only reinstated after MRC researchers pressed Instagram for clarification.
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