Conservatives’ huge guess on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to backfire on them.
Final 12 months, Steven Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump, inspired Kennedy to problem President Joe Biden within the Democratic main, in keeping with CBS Information’ Robert Costa. Bannon reportedly thought Kennedy would create chaos and stoke anti-vaccine sentiment.
After his Democratic bid fizzled, Kennedy kicked off an impartial run. And the entire time, he was bankrolled by conservative millionaires, who little question hoped Kennedy’s household title would value Biden sufficient votes in battleground states at hand the 2024 election to Trump.
Democratic voters principally didn’t fall for it, although. Even worse, Kennedy’s QAnon-adjacent conspiracy-theorizing started attracting assist on the best, imperiling Trump’s electoral possibilities. So Trump obtained Kennedy to drop out and endorse him in late August, promising Kennedy who-knows-what.
However now a slew of womanizing revelations are swirling round Kennedy, inflicting chaos for Trump. And it’s freakin’ hilarious.
On Wednesday, Mediaite reported that three girls declare to have had romantic relationships with Kennedy inside the previous 12 months. These three girls do not embrace New York journal journalist Olivia Nuzzi, whose personal alleged affair with the brain-worm-afflicted conspiracist seemingly destroyed her impending marriage and profession. Kennedy, it needs to be mentioned, is himself married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines.
And reportedly, the Trump marketing campaign sees this scandal as a menace.
Right here’s Mediaite:
One of many sources who spoke with Mediaite mentioned the scandal swirling round Kennedy over the connection with Nuzzi is seen internally as a difficulty the marketing campaign needs to remain as distant from as doable, significantly given Trump’s personal historical past of womanizing.
“Trump is concerned,” the particular person instructed Mediaite. He’s “concerned that there are more women, and that more affairs will come out. Right now, they are waiting to see if the news cycle will blow over, but it won’t, which has Trump reconsidering Bobby’s value.”
None of this could shock anybody. Individuals near him have described him as a “lifelong philanderer.” And through his second marriage, Kennedy reportedly stored a diary detailing his affairs with dozens of girls, bizarrely referring to them as “muggings.”
“He blamed the women, calling the sex acts ‘muggings,’” The New Republic reported in August 2023. “In one entry, he recorded he ‘narrowly escaped being mugged’ by a team of two women. ‘It was tempting but I prayed and God gave me the strength to say no,’ he wrote. In a May 21, 2001, entry, according to the [New York] Post, he wrote that he ‘got mugged on my way home’ from Manhattan and included the name of a woman with a 10 next to it.”
His first spouse died by suicide amid their divorce, and a few folks near them reportedly imagine that he contributed to her dying.
Why did so many Republicans assume Democrats could be seduced by arguably the one particular person within the nation as morally bankrupt and repugnant as Trump?
Day by day Kos has its personal historical past with Kennedy, after all. He sued us to give up the id of one among our group members in a gross violation of the First Modification. We efficiently resisted within the courts because of your beneficiant assist. And when Kennedy’s investigators finally found out the particular person’s id, that lawsuit fell aside as nicely.
What hasn’t fallen aside is our personal countersuit, which continues to be thought of in New York’s appeals court docket.
Trump and Kennedy had been made for one another. It’s becoming that after investing a lot effort and cash into utilizing Kennedy to screw over Democrats, it’s Republicans which can be struggling the results. In different phrases, conservatives paid thousands and thousands to ratfuck themselves.
And that’s merely hilarious.
