RFK Jr. Says ‘I Will not Take Sides on 9/11’ in Weird Nod to Conspiracy Theorists

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prompt the info surrounding the fear assaults of September 11, 2001, weren’t correct in a brand new tweet on Friday. And whereas it’s removed from the weirdest conspiracy concept Kennedy has publicly floated, it’s sure to energise his base as he campaigns to be president as an unbiased candidate.

“My tackle 9/11: It’s laborious to inform what’s a conspiracy concept and what isn’t,” Kennedy tweeted Friday morning. “However conspiracy theories flourish when the federal government routinely lies to the general public. As President I gained’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the opposite debates. However I can promise is that I’ll open the recordsdata and usher in a brand new period of transparency.”

Kennedy, who’s by no means held elected workplace and is just a public determine as a result of he’s the nephew of a former president, has beforehand stated he hasn’t studied the occasions of 9/11 carefully however doesn’t consider the official story in regards to the collapse of World Commerce Heart Constructing 7. The Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise discovered that the collapse of the constructing occurred as a result of it endured seven hours of fires began by the collapse of World Commerce Heart Tower 1. However Kennedy, like different so-called 9/11 Truthers, doesn’t consider that explains what really occurred.

Throughout an interview final yr with Peter Bergen, the host of the podcast Within the Room, Kennedy stated “there’s photos of it collapsing. There’s nothing collapsing on prime of it.” Bergen pointed on the market had been tens of hundreds of witness interviews carried out corroborating the findings that Constructing 7 collapsed attributable to fireplace.

NIST spent three years intensively learning the reason for the collapse and located that at the very least 10 flooring had been on fireplace. And whereas the constructing’s shut proximity to Tower 1 (simply 370 ft away) is hard to understand in lots of information movies of the collapse, it’s completely logical that Constructing 7 would have sustained extreme injury.

Conspiracy theorists consider Constructing 7 was destroyed utilizing hidden explosives put there by the U.S. authorities, simply as they consider that’s the actual trigger for the 2 towers collapsing. However each concept about hidden bombs falls aside below scrutiny, particularly whenever you simply step again and contemplate what everybody noticed with their very own eyes. Planes had been flown into the towers, which brought about such destruction that after burning for lengthy sufficient, the constructing collapsed below its personal weight. If the U.S. authorities had been actually planning a false flag, why not simply use bombs and blame it on terrorists?

Important pondering clearly isn’t one among Kennedy’s robust fits, however then once more that is the man who believes that vaccines trigger autism–a declare that’s been rejected by each mainstream scientist who’s appeared on the declare.

And but someway, Kennedy continues to be performing nicely within the polls, regardless of his unhinged beliefs. FiveThirtyEight’s national average at the moment has Kennedy polling at 9.8%, with President Joe Biden at 39.7% and Donald Trump at 42.2%. There’s primarily no approach that Kennedy might win the presidency with simply 4 months to Election Day, however he’s attracting a big sufficient share of the vote that he might undoubtedly have an effect. The one query is whether or not Kennedy steals extra votes from conventional Biden supporters or from Trump supporters. And with Biden probably dropping out to get replaced by one other Democrat, issues might get even messier.