In a social media post last week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he “won’t take sides” on whether or not the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy.
Kennedy took to X to explain more about his thoughts on the 9/11 terrorist attacks, saying he would push for more transparency on the event if elected president, saying that the government “routinely” lies, making it hard to determine what is a conspiracy and what is not.
However, he noted that he would not favor one side on theories related to the attacks.
“My take on 9/11: It’s hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public. As President I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates,” Kennedy said. “But I can promise is that I will open the files and usher in a new era of transparency.”
Kennedy quickly offered a follow-up comment saying that his post was in reference to a segment from CBS’s show “60 Minutes” that recently aired and discussed possible involvement from Saudi Arabia in the attacks.
The report from “60 Minutes” revealed a video of a Saudi intelligence operative with ties to two hijackers standing outside the Capitol building two years before the attacks.
Federal investigators have concluded that the 9/11 attacks only involved the terrorist group al Qaeda and that no other entity contributed to the event.
However, some have alleged that the Saudi government did play a role in the attacks or was at least complicit in them.
Some have called for further investigations, including a group of 9/11 survivors and families of victims.
The Saudi government maintains it had nothing to do with the attacks and says the video only shows tourism, not complicity.
But while Kennedy says his remarks about the 9/11 attacks were about the possible Saudi involvement, he has made comments about them in the past, including when he touched on a conspiracy theory surrounding 7 World Trade Center, a smaller building that collapsed after the Twin Towers.
“I know there’s strange things that happened. … One of the buildings came down that wasn’t hit by a plane,” Kennedy said during a podcast interview with journalist Peter Bergen in September.
He went on to say that he wouldn’t push any theories but that he had heard of questions being raised.
“I don’t want to argue any theories about this. Because all I’ve heard is questions. I have no explanation, I have no knowledge of it, but what you’re repeating now I know not to be true,” Kennedy said.
While he said at the time that he wasn’t backing any theories involving the building, he was skeptical of the federal government’s investigations into the attacks.