It has been one 12 months since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced his run for president as an impartial candidate. The infamous anti-vaxxer’s bid for the White Home, funded by pro-Trump billionaires, was the form of unserious rubbish fireplace we have now come to anticipate from MAGA-adjacent characters.
Let’s take a stroll down reminiscence lane, and bear in mind a few of the highlights:
His Keystone Cops marketing campaign announcement.
The kickoff to Kennedy’s spoiler marketing campaign included a “Curb Your Enthusiasm”-esque comedy of errors, together with a damaged teleprompter displaying his announcement speech the wrong way up, and Kennedy narrating the issue on a sizzling mic backstage.
Kennedy’s sister Kerry launched a assertion calling his impartial bid “dangerous to our country” and added that “Bobby would possibly share the identical identify as our father, however he doesn’t share the identical values, imaginative and prescient or judgment. At this time’s announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and imagine it to be perilous for our nation.”
RFK Jr.’s historical past of claiming tremendous loopy stuff after which mendacity about it.
Kennedy rapidly discovered himself defending a few of his earlier indefensible statements about every part from COVID-19 being “ethnically targeted” to blaming college shootings on antidepressants.
A few months after telling podcaster Lex Fridman that “There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective,” Kennedy opted to flat-out lie when pressed by “PBS NewsHour” co-anchor Amna Nawaz on his assertion.
Lonely St. Patrick’s Day.
President Joe Biden held a St. Patrick’s Day brunch on the White Home, and nearly your entire Kennedy clan confirmed up in help. Notably absent was Junior.
Mind worm.
Significantly—mind worm.
Denied he was consuming a canine in a resurfaced photograph.
Self-importance Truthful revealed a profile of Kennedy that included an older picture of the lawyer consuming a cooked and skewered animal. The article asserted that the animal within the image was a canine. Kennedy referred to as it “a lot of garbage.”
Minimized sexual assault allegations as merchandise of his “very rambunctious youth.”
In the identical Self-importance Truthful profile, a former household babysitter alleged that Kennedy had sexually assaulted her when she was at his household’s residence in Mount Kisco, New York, in 1999. Eliza Cooney instructed the journal that she was in her 20s on the time and Kennedy was about 45. Kennedy’s response to these allegations fell quick.
“You know, in terms of the other allegations, listen, I said this from the beginning,” he stated. “I am not a church boy. I am not running like that. I said it in my— I had a very, very rambunctious youth.”
The bear incident.
Who may neglect watching RFK Jr. inform comic Roseanne Barr, in some kitchen someplace, about how he had thrown a bear cub that was hit by a automobile into his trunk with the intention of skinning it and consuming it later? It’s straightforward to recollect how Kennedy stated he ended up having a superb day of falconry, by no means made it residence, after which drove into New York Metropolis to have dinner with associates—with a useless bear nonetheless in his trunk.
Kennedy went on to elucidate that whereas he doesn’t drink, his associates do, they usually have been tickled by the bear story. So when Kennedy remembered he needed to catch a flight and realized he didn’t have time to take the bear residence, he and his associates determined to stage the bear as a bicycle hit-and-run in Central Park, which led to numerous baffled information tales.
Even stranger: The reporter who coated the weird story for The New York Occasions was none aside from Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of RFK Jr.’s first cousin Caroline Kennedy.
Kennedy ends his marketing campaign and throws help behind Donald Trump.
When Kennedy lastly ended his marketing campaign, he did so in true RKF Jr. trend, giving a long-winded speech endorsing Republican nominee Donald Trump. His household launched a assertion endorsing Trump’s opponents, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and referred to as Kennedy’s failed marketing campaign and help of Trump “a sad ending to a sad story.”
The place is he now?
Since becoming a member of the Trump marketing campaign, Kennedy’s been making the form of headlines solely RFK Jr. can. He allegedly had a sexting affair with New York Journal journalist Olivia Nuzzi that has put his marriage in jeopardy, and he’s additionally being investigated for reducing a whale’s head off and taking it residence.
And thru all of that, he nonetheless has his associates and his hobbies!
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