Media Floats Bizarre Conspiracy Theory That RFK Jr. Hid Nazi ‘Dog Whistle’ in His Secret Service Tweet

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On Friday, a message from the social media account of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contained wording some of his highly imaginative critics claim resembles the infamous Nazi hate symbol “1488.”

In the post from Kennedy’s official Twitter account, the numbers 14 and 88 were used in close succession.

“Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection.  But not me.   Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days,” he wrote on X. “After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request.  Secretary Mayorkas: ‘I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.’  Our campaign’s request included a 67-page report from the world’s leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.”

The Huffington Post cited the discredited, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to claim RFK Jr. might be pushing Nazi “dog whistles.”

“’1488′ is a known white supremacist symbol, according to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. The ’14’ in the symbol is shorthand for the “14 Words” slogan that is popular with racists around the world, while the ’88’ stands for ‘Heil Hitler,’ since ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet,” HuffPo claimed.

As of Friday afternoon, Kennedy has not responded to HuffPost’s request for comment or clarified the post elsewhere. It remains uncertain whether he personally authorized the tweet.

The post on Twitter (which recently underwent a rebranding to X) aimed to press President Joe Biden into granting him Secret Service protection, stating that such security measures are usually provided to presidential candidates.

HuffPo then engaged in some more linguistic acrobatics, claiming, “Kennedy has come under fire for trafficking in antisemitic conspiracy theories. At a recent dinner, he falsely said the virus that causes COVID-19 may have been engineered, that it’s less harmful to ‘Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese’ (also false), and that it’s ‘targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people’ (false again). He also suggested that Holocaust victims had it easier than COVID sufferers.”

This, of course, is a gross distortion of what RFK Jr. actually said. He compared Covid pandemic policies to the kinds of fascist policies implemented in Nazi Germany and noted there was no escape from them.

“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” RFK Jr. said.

Cue the faux outrage. Kennedy, however, subsequently apologized, so as to be perfectly clear he was not making the false equivalency that his intellectually dishonest critics claimed he was making.

Kennedy’s critics took aim at RFK Jr. for his latest remarks.

It shouldn’t be lost on anyone that these are the same left-wing loons who claim Robert Kennedy Jr. is a “conspiracy theorist.”

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