Eric Clapton Raises $2.2 Million for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at Private Fundraiser

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Eric Clapton helped fellow conspiracy theorist and misinformation spreader Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. raise over $2 million for his presidential campaign.

Clapton performed at a private fundraiser for the Democratic candidate on Monday night, raising $1 million for Kennedy’s campaign and another $1.2 million for a super PAC supporting him. Tickets to the Brentwood, California event ranged from $3,300 to $6,600, with guests contributing the maximum donation enjoying a private reception in addition to remarks from Kennedy and a live set from Clapton.

“I am deeply grateful to Eric Clapton for bringing his musical artistry and rebellious spirit to my gathering in Los Angeles last night,” Kennedy said in a statement. “I sometimes think that in our divided society, it is music rather than any kind of intellectual agreement that has the most potential to bring us together again. Eric sings from the depths of the human condition. If he sees in me the possibility of bringing unity to our country, it is only possible because artists like him invoke a buried faith in the limitless power of human beings to overcome any obstacle.”

Though Kennedy thanked Clapton for contributing “truth, unity, peace, and posterity” with his music, the artist’s politics suggest he’s gifted the world nothing but the opposite. After chanting “Keep Britain White” way back in the ’70s, Clapton tacked on a whole new type of ridiculousness to his carton villain persona once the COVID-19 pandemic began, delivering an anti-mask, anti-lockdown duet with Van Morrison and comparing vaccine mandates to slavery. The guitarist also claims to have experienced severe adverse effects from the AstraZeneca vaccine, though those claims have been called into question.

RFK, meanwhile, has been spreading pseudoscience for decades, from pushing the long-debunked theory that vaccines cause autism to denying the link between HIV and AIDS to likening shot mandates to the Holocaust to attempting to spin the medicine into some kind of eugenicist practice, “ethnically targeted” against white and Black people while sparing Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews. In 2021, the men parroted their disproven beliefs on Kennedy’s echochamber podcast The Defender.

Eric Clapton Raises $2.2 Million for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at Private Fundraiser
Carys Anderson

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