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Cheryl Hines calls husband RFK Jr.’s vaccine mandate comments invoking Anne Frank ‘reprehensible’
Cheryl Hines is taking subject along with her husband’s most up-to-date feedback on vaccine mandates.
The 56-year-old actress is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 68, who has lengthy been an outspoken critic of vaccines and mandates as the subject continues to be a divisive subject throughout the nation amid the continued coronavirus pandemic.
The lawyer lately made headlines for invoking teenage Holocaust sufferer Anne Frank right into a dialog about vaccine mandates.
“Even in Hitler Germany, you would cross the Alps into Switzerland, you would disguise in an attic like Anne Frank did,” he mentioned in a latest speech, footage of which went viral earlier this week on social media. “As we speak, the mechanisms are being put in place that may make it so none of us can run, and none of us can disguise.”
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He has since apologized for the feedback.
Followers have been additionally fast to name upon Hines to talk out on the problem.
“My husband’s opinions will not be a mirrored image of my very own,” the”Curb Your Enthusiasm” star replied to at least one such name to motion on Twitter. “Whereas we love one another, we differ on many present points.”
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Followers continued to press Hines, with one suggesting she ought to have known as Kennedy “flawed” for having talked about Frank and the Holocaust.
Actress Cheryl Hines known as out her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his ‘reprehensible and insensitive’ comparability of vaccines mandates to Nazi Germany.
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“Sure, I agree with you,” she replied.
The response left some unhappy, later prompting the star to make clear that her feedback have been “nothing about WW II” and insisting that she “was responding to, ‘Do you stand together with your husband.’”
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The actress clarified her feedback in an announcement shared on Twitter.
“My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive,” she said. “The atrocities that hundreds of thousands endured through the Holocaust ought to by no means be in comparison with anybody or something. His opinions will not be a mirrored image of my very own.”
Kennedy later apologized himself, writing on Twitter: “I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, particularly to households that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to make use of examples of previous barbarism to point out the perils from new applied sciences of management. To the extent my remarks brought on harm, I’m actually and deeply sorry.”
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