Cheryl Hines breaks silence on husband RFK Jr.’s Holocaust analogy during anti-vaccine mandate speech

Kennedy, the son of the late former Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, made a number of claims during his speech on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial, including about Bill Gates and 5G, in speaking against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. But most of the backlash was directed at his reference to the Holocaust and Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager whose diary documented how she hid with her family from the Nazis in an Amsterdam warehouse annex for two years before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Frank was one of the roughly 6 million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust.

“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland,” Kennedy said. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did. I visited in 1962 — East Germany — with my father and met people who had climbed the wall and escaped. So, it was possible. Many people died doing it, but it was possible. Today, the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run, none of us can hide.”

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Among those to criticize Kennedy was the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum, which said in a tweet: “Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany — including children like Anne Frank — in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral & intellectual decay.”

Kennedy himself apologized Tuesday for his reference to Frank.

“I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry,” he said in a tweet.

Hines, who plays the wife of Jewish comedian Larry David on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, first responded to someone on Twitter who commented on the Auschwitz Memorial’s tweet, asking if she stood by her husband’s comments.

“My husband’s opinions are not a reflection of my own. While we love each other, we differ on many current issues,” Hines said Monday evening in a tweet.

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Another Twitter user then asked Hines, “How about this? ‘No one should compare anything to the horrors of the Holocaust. My husband was wrong to do so.'”

Hines responded, “Yes, I agree with you.”

Hines and Kennedy, both of whom have children from prior marriages, got married in 2014.