Robert F. Kennedy’s sister has mentioned that his endorsement of former President Donald Trump left her “disgusted.”
“If my father had been alive at this time, he would detest nearly every little thing Donald Trump represents,” Kerry Kennedy instructed CNN.
“His mendacity, his selfishness, his rage, his cynicism, his hatred, his racism, his fascist sympathies, his deliberate misinformation about vaccines, his prison felony convictions, his contempt for the poor and struggling, for ethics, for democracy, and for his merciless sneering at human rights for struggling individuals in America and world wide, which is the trigger that so moved and motivated my father.
“I am outraged and disgusted by my brother’s embrace of Donald Trump. I really like my brother, however that is an outrage,” she mentioned.
Newsweek has contacted Kennedy Jr. and the Trump marketing campaign by way of e-mail for remark.
At a press convention on Friday, Kennedy Jr. introduced he was suspending his presidential marketing campaign and endorsing Donald Trump. “In my coronary heart, I now not consider that I’ve a practical path to electoral victory,” Kennedy mentioned. “I can’t in good conscience ask my workers and volunteers to maintain working their lengthy hours or ask my donors to maintain giving, after I can’t actually inform them that I’ve an actual path to the White Home.”
He mentioned that whereas he and Trump don’t agree on every little thing, the previous president had “introduced collectively individuals from throughout the political spectrum grounded within the values of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, an excellent man, and his uncle John F. Kennedy.”
“Our kids are the unhealthiest, sickest on the planet. Do not you need wholesome youngsters? Do not you need the chemical compounds out of our meals?” Kennedy Jr. requested the group. “That is what President Trump instructed me that he wished.”
Following his announcement, Kennedy Jr.’s members of the family, who condemned him when he first launched his marketing campaign, launched an announcement that referred to as the endorsement a “betrayal.”
“We wish an America stuffed with hope and sure collectively by a shared imaginative and prescient of a brighter future, a future outlined by particular person freedom, financial promise, and nationwide pleasure,” the assertion learn, including that the alliance with Trump is “a tragic ending to a tragic story.”
Jack Schlossberg, former President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, mentioned on Friday on X that RFK Jr. was “on the market” and “works for Trump.”
“Kamala Harris is for the individuals — the best choice of all time simply obtained simpler,” he added.
Former Republican presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump on August 23, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. RFK Jr.’s sister has mentioned his endorsement of Trump left her ‘disgusted.’
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Throughout the election marketing campaign, Trump and Kennedy Jr. publicly feuded on a number of events, with Trump slamming him as “not a severe candidate,” dismissing the concept of debating him.
In the meantime, Kennedy Jr. referred to as Trump “unhinged” earlier this yr after a social media tirade from the previous Republican president accused him of being a “Democrat plant” and a “wasted protest vote.”
“RFK Jr is a Democrat ‘Plant,'” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “A Vote for Junior’ would primarily be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that would swing both means, however would solely swing in opposition to Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him.”
Kennedy Jr. responded: “When frightened males take to social media they threat descending into vitriol, which makes them sound unhinged. President Trump’s rant in opposition to me is a barely coherent barrage of untamed and inaccurate claims that ought to finest be resolved within the American custom of presidential debate.”
In July, Kennedy Jr. was compelled to apologize to Trump after his son leaked a cellphone name between the previous President and Kennedy through which Trump mentioned what President Biden mentioned to him following an try on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Kennedy Jr., who’s the son of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, initially filed candidacy papers for the Democratic nomination in April however later switched to working as an unbiased candidate.
Following his announcement that he was working for president, his members of the family launched an announcement denouncing him as “harmful” and “perilous for our nation”.
Kennedy Jr. has beforehand been accused of amplifying conspiracy theories—most notably in regards to the COVID vaccine. He reportedly claimed that the virus which causes COVID-19 was “ethnically focused,” which he has since denied.
Though he has suspended his marketing campaign, Kennedy Jr. will stay on the poll in some states.