The Conspiracy Theories of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of a mature Prison legitimate Total and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, has announced that he’s working for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He is practically seventy years worn, and has by no device held public attach of commercial. “There’s nothing within the United States Constitution that claims that or no longer it’s far obligatory to transfer to Congress first after which Senate second, or be a governor earlier than you’re elected to the Presidency,” he tells David Remnick. With no prominent elected Democrat tense President Biden, Kennedy is polling round ten to twenty per cent among Democratic most essential voters—sufficient to motive on the least some apprehension for Biden. He is easiest is believed as an influential purveyor of disinformation: that vaccines motive autism, that S.S.R.I.s and general effort medication may possibly well well per chance also very successfully be inflicting the expand in college shootings, that “poisonous chemical substances” within the water present may possibly well well per chance contribute to “sexual dysphoria” in younger folks. He wrote a e-book accusing Anthony Fauci of helping to “orchestrate and compose 2020’s historical coup d’état against Western democracy.” He appears to be like no longer at all concerned that Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, and Alex Jones—all of whom would prefer to peek Biden bruised in a most essential field—comprise praised him. “I’m attempting to unite the nation,” he says to Remnick. “You withhold desirous to present consideration to why don’t I abominate this man more? Why don’t I abominate on this individual more?” Kennedy, who continuously attends recovery meetings for habit to treatment, in conjunction with heroin, says that “the recovery program is an valuable share of my life, is an valuable share of conserving me mentally and bodily and spiritually fit. . . . And my program tells me no longer to compose that. I’m no longer presupposed to be doing that.”