Members of the storied Kennedy household spent the weekend disavowing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following his rambling announcement that he was suspending his impartial presidential marketing campaign in swing states and throwing his assist to Republican candidate Donald Trump.
5 of Kennedy’s siblings fired off a response proper after his announcement.
“Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear,” they wrote. “It is a sad ending to a sad story.”
Kerry Kennedy appeared on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” Sunday to ship a blistering assault on her older brother and categorical unwavering assist for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
“The stakes this November couldn’t be higher, which is exactly why my whole family will be fighting so hard to reelect Kamala Harris and Coach Walz, who’ve been champions for the values that my family has fought for for years,” Kerry Kennedy instructed Psaki.
“I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump,” she mentioned. “I utterly disavow and separate and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and this flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set hearth to my father’s reminiscence.”
Trump is “a threat to most basic freedoms that are core to who we are as Americans. The right for women to control our bodies, the right to live in communities safe from gun violence, to love who you love. And I think if my dad were alive today, the real Robert Kennedy would have detested almost everything Donald Trump represents,” Kerry Kennedy mentioned.
His mendacity, his selfishness, his rage, his cynicism, hatred, racism, fascism, the deliberate misinformation about vaccines, felony felony convictions—Dad, he was the lawyer common of the USA—his rape of E. Jean Carroll, his contempt for the poor, and struggling, for ethics, democracy, therapeutic, his merciless sneering at human rights, for struggling of individuals in America and all over the world.
The prolonged Kennedy household joined in blasting RFK Jr. over the weekend. Robert F. Kennedy’s grandson Joe Kennedy III retweeted the Kennedy siblings’ assertion with a easy “Well said.”
And cousin Jack Schlossberg, son of JFK’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, was scathing in his evaluation whereas reiterating his private assist for Harris.
RFK Jr. sibling Max Kennedy didn’t signal on to the preliminary fast response Friday, however wrote his personal piece for the Los Angeles Instances Sunday.
“I’m heartbroken over my brother Bobby’s endorsement of Donald Trump,” he wrote.
To pledge allegiance to Trump, a person who demonstrates no adherence to our household’s values, is inconceivable to me.
Worse, it’s sordid. Earlier this month, as Harris surged within the polls, my brother supplied her his endorsement in alternate for a place in her coming administration. He received no response.
Now he has supplied that very same deal to Trump. His is a hole seize for energy, a strategic try at relevance. It’s the reverse of what my father admired: “the unselfish spirit that exists in the United States of America.”
“With a heavy heart, I am today asking my fellow Americans to do what will honor our father the most: Ignore Bobby and support Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic platform,” Max Kennedy wrote. “It’s what is best for our country.”
