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Previous Independent prospect for president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, responds to a concern as previous Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard listens as they meet the media after a project occasion for Republican governmental candidate previous President Donald Trump, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. Ross D. Franklin/ AP
By Simon J. Levien, New York Times Service
upgraded on September 16, 2024
GLENDALE, Ariz.– At his very first significant project occasion for previous President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. informed a crowd Saturday night that he was being examined for his handling of a whale carcass years back.
Kennedy, who backed Trump last month after ending his own independent run for the presidency, stated at the occasion in Glendale, Arizona., that he had actually gotten a letter from a nationwide fisheries institute “stating they were examining me for gathering a whale specimen 20 years back.” He recommended that the query was politically inspired, and stated that he thought he was secured by the statute of constraints.
The whale episode emerged over the summertime after Kennedy acknowledged that he had actually left a dead bear cub in Central Park in New York City in 2014 as a trick. That accentuated a 2012 Town & & Country short article in which his child Kick Kennedy stated that Kennedy had when chain-sawed the avoid a dead whale on the coast of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and made the five-hour drive to their home in Mount Kisco, New York, with it attached to the roofing system of a minivan.
The reference of the examination was an odd minute at a project stop where Kennedy toggled in between advising his fans to support Trump and continuing to attempt to offer his own policies on health and ecological concerns, now with a revitalized MAGA inflection.
“Make America healthy once again!” Kennedy, a vaccine doubter who has actually promoted a disproved link in between vaccines and autism, stated to applause from hundreds in the gym of Arizona Christian University. “He’s going to end the persistent illness epidemic, and he desired my aid to do it.”
When Kennedy was weighing whether to end his quote, he approached both Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump to see if they may use him a Cabinet position. The Harris project decreased to consult with him, however he discovered a responsive audience in Trump, despite the fact that they had actually traded insults as competitors. The previous president has actually not openly guaranteed Kennedy a Cabinet post however has actually shown that he would deal with Kennedy on a job force about persistent health concerns.
At the occasion, where he appeared with previous Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, another previous Democrat, Kennedy associated political polarization in the nation to “hypnosis and a psy-op” managed by those in power.