WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has admitted that the U.S. created Daesh, blaming Washington for crimes perpetrated by the terrorist group and influx of millions of refugees to Europe.
“The police are corrupt. We created ISIS (Daesh). We drove two million refugees up into Europe and destabilized democracy for a generation in Europe. They called it Brexit,” said the 69-year-old environmental lawyer, who is also a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy is the first candidate from the ruling Democratic party to challenge fellow party member and 80-year-old U.S. President Joe Biden, who has declared his intent to run again in 2024, although not officially yet.
The newest presidential hopeful lashed out at previous administrations in Washington for wasting eight trillion dollars on the U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq.
“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency,” he said, “will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now – threatening now – to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country; to commoditize our children, our purple mountain’s majesty; to poison our children and our people with chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs; to strip-mine our assets; to hollow out the middle class and keep us in a constant state of war.”
Back in August 2016, then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump also accused standing U.S. president at the time Barack Obama of founding the Daesh terrorist group.
“In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama,” Trump said during a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “He is the founder of ISIS.”
He repeated the allegation three more times for emphasis.
Trump has repeatedly accused former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of founding the infamous terrorist group, and said “crooked Hillary Clinton” was actually the group’s co-founder.
In 2011, Clinton confessed in an interview with Fox News that the U.S. created Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan which it later invaded with the purported aim of destroying the terrorist group.
“We created the problem in Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight against the Soviet Union,” she said.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Friday described the United States as the “godfather of Daesh”.
“There was no doubt the U.S. is the creator of #ISIS, but for those who deliberately closed their eyes to the truth, the statement of Robert F. Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy saying “WE created ISIS” reaffirms the fact that the American regime is the godfather of Daesh/ISIS,” he wrote.