RFK Jr.’s Deluge of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Franklin · Aug 17, 2026
RFK Jr. is overflowing with conspiracy theories, on topics as varied as 9/11, the 2004 election, chemtrails, and John D. Rockefeller. It is not just COVID - he lives in a paranoid fantasy world where "they" are always plotting.
RFK Jr.
My take on 9/11: It's hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't.
RFK Jr. isn’t sure who was behind 9/11.
RFK Jr.
COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
COVID was designed to attack certain races and protect others.
RFK Jr.
Gates has involved himself in sketchy stealth campaigns to sterilize dark-skinned and marginalized women without their informed consent.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Bill Gates conspired to sterilize African women.
RFK Jr.
After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004. 
Kennedy, Robert. "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" Rolling Stone, June 15, 2006.
Republicans stole the 2004 presidential election.
RFK Jr.
They're putting in 5G to harvest our data and control our behavior. Digital currency that will allow them to punish us from a distance and cut off our food supply.
5G technology for faster cell phone data is actually a conspiracy to control citizens. 
RFK Jr.
The pain that we all feel from my father’s death should not prevent us from pursuit of the truth. I firmly believe the idea that Sirhan murdered my dad is a fiction that is impeding justice.
The LAPD conspired to pin his father’s assassination on Sirhan Sirhan.
RFK Jr.
[T]he CIA—working with medical technocrats like Anthony Fauci and billionaire Internet tycoons—had pulled off the ultimate coup d’état…the American experiment with self-government was over.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
The CIA, Anthony Fauci, and techbros killed democracy.
RFK Jr.
[W]e cannot exclude the possibility that someone in our government carried out a false flag attack against Americans as a provocation for some larger agenda. This is not an outlandish conspiracy theory.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
The anthrax attacks after 9/11 were a false flag.
RFK Jr.
Many people argue that this pandemic was a "plandemic," that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me.
The COVID pandemic was a "sinister scheme."
RFK Jr.
The repetition of these exercises suggests that they serve as a kind of rehearsal or training drill for an underlying agenda to coordinate the global dismantlement of democratic governance.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Simulations for handling biowarfare attacks on the US were a conspiracy to overthrow democracy worldwide.
RFK Jr.
They were doing phony, crooked studies…and pumping up fear about it constantly, not really understanding whether it was causing AIDS. There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS.
HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, but is a conspiracy perpetrated by the scientific community.
RFK Jr.
Dr. Fauci and his Pharma collaborators deliberately suppressed those treatments in service to their single-minded objective—making America await salvation from their novel, multi-billion dollar vaccines.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Anthony Fauci and the pharmaceutical industry suppressed treatments that could cheaply cure COVID.
RFK Jr.
All their diabolical tricks seemed the work of winks and nods and a powerful hidden hand, with no corporation or federal agency taking clear responsibility for carrying out a deliberate policy to suppress a life-saving drug.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Shadowy figures suppressed ivermectin during the COVID pandemic.
RFK Jr.
I think one of the other parts of your story that’s important to understand is the military programs to weaponize climate, because of course they’re doing that.
RFK agreed with a podcast guest that the military runs a secret program to enlist commercial pilots to spray chemtrails while placing "an illegal gag order on all the nation’s weathermen."
RFK Jr.
By remarkable coincidence, DARPA shut down its Facebook-like project…the very same month—February 2004—that Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook just a thirty-minute walk up the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the campus of Harvard University.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Facebook is really a Department of Defense data mining operation.
RFK Jr.
Peter Bergen: Well, I mean, so there's doubt in your mind that al-Qaeda was responsible?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Well, I know, I don't know, you know, I know that there's. I know there's strange things that happened.
RFK Jr. isn’t even sure Al Qaeda was responsible for 9/11
RFK Jr.
While unusual numbers of Black celebrities were dying postvaccination in America, an eyebrow-raising number of anti-vax political leaders were simultaneously expiring in Africa…I do not endorse the theory that these men were murdered, nor do I dismiss such speculation out of hand.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
"Western intelligence community and militaries" murdered African leaders who opposed COVID vaccines.
RFK Jr.
In the early 1900s, as scientists discovered pharmaceutical uses for refinery by-products…The Rockefeller Foundation…recommended centralizing America’s medical schooling, abolishing miasma theory, and reorienting these institutions according to "germ theory"…Rockefeller financed the campaign to consolidate mainstream medicine, co-opt the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry, and shutter its competition.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
John D. Rockefeller’s charitable giving was a conspiracy to sell pharmaceuticals.
RFK Jr.
It’s a matrix of an interwoven relationships between CDC and FDA and the vaccine industry…The military, which is part of this in all these very nefarious ways…And then, of course, the doctors, and the AAP, and the AMA, and the media, and they're all telling us what we know is true is not true. They're imposing an alternative reality on all of us, a "Matrix" reality, and we're sitting here and we know it's all a lie.
The CDC, FDA, pharmaceutical industry, military, medical associations, and media are all working together to weave a fake reality.
RFK Jr.
Vested political interests and malignant political actors profit and flourish when we are atomized and fragmented and uncertain, when we can be easily propagandized, when we live in fear and helplessness and victimization. These forces prefer to have us in terror and anxiety which disable our capacity for critical thinking and make us more compliant and credulous. They want us hiding from ourselves to avoid our own shadows and dulling our pain and loneliness through sedation and distraction.
Vested political interests want us in terror so that we’ll sedate ourselves.
RFK Jr.
Each of these functioned as training exercises for the lockstep imposition of global totalitarianism. Many of these drills have involved tens of thousands of local police, health officials, and emergency responders across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, as well as representatives from the FBI, the State Department, the intelligence agencies, and private corporations from chemical, petroleum, financial, telecom industries, and health sectors.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Separate simulations to plan how to handle WMD attacks were a conspiracy with dozens of other countries, major industries, and even local EMTs to impose totalitarianism.
RFK Jr.
From his perch at NIAID, Dr. Fauci has used his $6 billion annual budget to achieve dominance and control over a long list of agencies and governing bodies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Pentagon, the White House, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) organizations, and into the deep pockets of the Clinton and Gates Foundations, and Britain’s The Wellcome Trust.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Anthony Fauci, head of one of the smaller government agencies, controlled everyone from the President of the United States to the US military to the UN.
RFK Jr.
HIV provided Gates and Dr. Fauci…a vehicle for the partners to build and maintain a powerful global network…of state, health ministers, international health regulators, the WHO, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and key leaders from the financial industry and the military officials who served as command center of the burgeoning biosecurity apparatus. Their foot soldiers were the army of frontline virologists, vaccinologists, clinicians, and hospital administrators who relied on their largesse and acted as the community-based ideological commissars of this crusade.
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. The real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
Anthony Fauci also controlled the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the financial industry, and an "army" of doctors and hospital administrators.
RFK Jr.
BASH: It was a scary time, and people made mistakes, absolutely. Let me finish.

KENNEDY: You were scaring people.

BASH: Why are you saying that?

KENNEDY: Because that was the job of CNN…

BASH: OK. OK, stop.

KENNEDY: ... was to put the Chyrons up about many people are dying to get people to comply.
CNN’s "job" during COVID was to scare people to get them to comply with government.
Thread by Mike Franklin.

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