{"id":1038020,"date":"2024-08-05T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1038020"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:19:36","slug":"rfk-jr-a-deeply-troubled-reckless-dangerous-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/rfk-jr-a-deeply-troubled-reckless-dangerous-man\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.: A Deeply Troubled, Reckless, Dangerous Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Today, in a damaging new profile from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/08\/12\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign\"><em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><em>, RFK Jr. is once again revealed to be a troubled, reckless, and dangerous man who is more than comfortable being a spoiler for Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In a new quote, his campaign manager, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, told The New Yorker that the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services \u201cis an incredibly interesting one\u201d for RFK Jr. and that he is not opposed to serving in a Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The New Yorker also reveals that in fall 2014, RFK Jr. found the carcass of a bear cub on the side of the road, loaded it into the rear hatch of his car, showed it off to his friends, and\u2014 as he admitted in a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1820132549798347109\"><em>bizarre video with Roseanne Barr<\/em><\/a><em>\u2014 had dinner at Peter Luger Steak House with the bear\u2019s body in his trunk. After dinner, RFK Jr. thought it would be \u201cfunny\u201d to stage the bear cub in Central Park to appear as if it had been killed by a cyclist. The bear was discovered the next day, which triggered an investigation by city and state officials.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, DNC Spokesperson Matt Corridoni released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe RFK Jr. running for president is the same RFK Jr. portrayed in this story: a deeply troubled, reckless, and dangerous man. He doesn\u2019t think the rules apply to him and he refuses to consider the consequences of his actions. That is why he is willing to play the role of spoiler for Donald Trump in this election and why he has floated endorsing Trump in exchange for a job in a Trump administration. RFK Jr. has always put RFK Jr. first and he has no regard for the disastrous impact his actions would have on the American people.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ICYMI: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2024\/08\/12\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-profile-presidential-campaign\"><strong>The New Yorker<\/strong><\/a><strong>: What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Clare Malone&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At the [Republican National Convention], [Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, the campaign manager,] said, Trump alluded to the possibility of Kennedy ending his run. \u201cThey said, \u2018You know, we know that you take more from us than you take from Biden,\u2019 \u201d she recalled. Trump and his team, she went on, had asked Kennedy, \u201c \u2018Is there something that you would want to do?\u2019 \u201d<strong> Kennedy is not opposed to serving in a Trump Administration. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Fox Kennedy said, \u201cis an incredibly interesting one.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00a0In 2016, [RFK Jr.] published a book about the conviction of his cousin Michael Skakel, in 2002, for the 1975 murder of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley, in Greenwich, Connecticut. [&#8230;] <strong>\u00a0Kennedy\u2019s version of events was widely seen as outlandish.<\/strong> His book <strong>raised the possibility that the crime had been committed by two young men of color from New York City\u2014\u201cunusually big, muscular, and tall\u201d<\/strong>\u2014who were friends with a classmate of Skakel\u2019s and who, the classmate claimed, had been in Greenwich that night. The Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice released a statement calling the book \u201c<strong>inflammatory,\u201d noting it provided \u201cno valid or new information.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At Riverkeeper, Kennedy\u2019s relationship with Robert Boyle became increasingly tense. \u201cIn the beginning, Kennedy was all right,\u201d Boyle later told New York magazine. \u201cBut then he started throwing his weight around.\u201d In 2000, Boyle became apoplectic when he discovered that <strong>Kennedy had hired a staff scientist who\u2019d been arrested for running a rare-bird-smuggling ring.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In April, a number of his former colleagues at the N.R.D.C., including Adams and Barratt-Brown, signed an open letter calling on him to drop out of the Presidential race: <strong>\u201cIn nothing more than a vanity candidacy, RFK Jr. has chosen to play the role of election spoiler to the benefit of Donald Trump\u2014the single worst environmental president our country has ever had.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At some point, [Mary Richardson Kennedy] became aware of a diary, from 2001, in which Kennedy had logged his sexual conquests. The New York Post later obtained and reviewed the contents of the diary, reporting that it included dozens of women, with numbers next to their names to indicate sexual acts; ten meant intercourse. According to the Post, <strong>Kennedy seemed to have recorded the encounters as a way of policing himself.<\/strong> In one entry, he recalls being propositioned to have sex with two women: \u201cIt was tempting but I prayed and God gave me the strength to say no.\u201d In another, he reminded himself to <strong>\u201cavoid the company of women. You have not the strength to resist their charms.\u201d<\/strong> He admonished himself to \u201cbe humble like a monk. Keep your hands to yourself. Avert your eyes.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One day, in the fall of 2014, Kennedy was driving to a falconry outing in upstate New York when he passed a furry brown mound on the side of the road. He pulled over and discovered that it was the carcass of a black-bear cub. Kennedy was tickled by the find. <strong>He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of his car and later showed it off to his friends. In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear\u2019s bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face. <\/strong>(When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said, \u201cMaybe that\u2019s where I got my brain worm.\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He drove to Manhattan and, as darkness fell, entered Central Park with the bear and a bicycle. A person with knowledge of the event said that <strong>Kennedy thought it would be funny<\/strong> to make it look as if the animal had been killed by an errant cyclist. The next day, the bear was discovered by two women walking their dogs, <strong>setting off an investigation by the N.Y.P.D. \u201cThis is a highly unusual situation,\u201d a spokeswoman for the Central Park Conservancy told the Times. \u201cIt\u2019s awful.\u201d<\/strong> In a follow-up piece for the Times, which was coincidentally written by Tatiana Schlossberg, one of J.F.K.\u2019s granddaughters, a retired Bronx homicide commander commented, \u201cPeople are crazy.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some of his former close friends have grown alarmed at the changes they\u2019ve seen in him more recently. [&#8230;] On a podcast last year, Kennedy said that he was taking testosterone-replacement therapy under the guidance of a doctor. One of the side effects of that treatment is increased muscle mass. <strong>But the longtime friend told me, \u201cIt\u2019s almost like he\u2019s been body-snatched. I look at pictures of him, and he\u2019s unrecognizable. His sense of humor is all but gone. There\u2019s this anger.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in a damaging new profile from The New Yorker, RFK Jr. is once again revealed to be a troubled, reckless, and dangerous man who is more than comfortable being a spoiler for Donald Trump.&nbsp; In a new quote, his campaign manager, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, told The New Yorker that the position of Secretary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RFK Jr.: A Deeply Troubled, Reckless, Dangerous Man - 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