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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disbanded his presidential campaign and threw his support behind Donald J. Trump, it sent the larger Kennedy family into a tizzy.
ABC News was quick to land an interview with Kerry Kennedy, the 7th of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children. Kerry told ABC she abhorred her brother’s actions but still loved him.
“RFK Jr. set fire to my father’s memory,” she added—apparently unmindful of the scathing revelations in Maureen Callahan’s New York Times bestseller, Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, a shocking takedown of both Robert Kennedy Sr. and John F. Kennedy. That book contained allegations concerning the latter’s indulgence in underage sex and the seduction of a young White House intern virgin after a Daiquiri-filled party and private White House tour. Yet another Kennedy sex victim.
It is Callahan’s book that set fire to the Kennedy myth, rather than RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump, but listening to Kerry on ABC you definitely got the feeling she considered endorsing Trump for president to be worse than rape and extreme predatory sexual behavior.
After all, Kennedy men will be Kennedy men. But endorsing Trump? In her ABC diatribe, Kerry—pictured in a spacious living room setting—tells viewers that the stakes in November couldn’t be higher.
“…My whole family is fighting so hard to reelect Kamala Harris and Coach Walz, who have been champions of the values my family has fought for years—Donald Trump is the polar opposite,” she said.
Does she mean “values” such as open borders, free health insurance, free housing, money and special privileges for illegal immigrants?
Kerry Kennedy doesn’t actually say. Rather, we’re supposed to travel back in time to the commonsense “values” that were universally appreciated during the JFK presidency but have since been warped by a very different Democrat party. Kerry then goes into a rant about Trump’s lying, selfishness, rage, racism, fascistic sympathies, criminal felony convictions, and desire to be a dictator for a day.
The woman is on a roll. She’s clearly very upset RFK Jr. endorsed Donald Trump.
“Dictator for a day” is a favorite Trump-quote among Trump Derangement Syndrome-affected Democrats who just aren’t capable of discerning the truth behind a facetious comment, such as using the word “dictator” when calling attention to disastrous Biden-Harris policies like open borders. What Trump was really saying was, the crisis at the border demands radical corrective action and the only way to do it is maybe to act like a “dictator.”
“Dictator” in this case is not about Trump becoming another fulltime Franco or Mussolini but merely issuing a series of harsh executive orders he said he would sign on his first day in office.
Yet people like Kerry Kennedy pretend not to understand this.
She reiterated how disgusted she was at her brother’s “betrayal,” as if all Kennedy family members had sworn a blood oath to the Democrat Party from birth.
Of course, in an unofficial way, the Kennedy family has sworn a kind of loyalty oath. Retaining their legacy as one of America’s premier Democrat families can only be maintained by remaining Democrat no matter who runs on the ticket: a Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson or even Ted Bundy. You must support the party at all costs.
Deviations like RFK Jr. and his decision to endorse Trump could adversely affect the Kennedy family’s standing with the established Democrat elite—they do not want to see their royalty status reduced to serfdom if too many Kennedy people begin to think independently.
Kerry showed an embarrassing ignorance of campaign matters when she falsely told ABC that Donald Trump wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. Here’s a woman who has obviously never listened to a single Trump speech—he has stated he is adamantly opposed to such cuts—but opts to get all of her information from the Trump-hating legacy media.
And calling Trump a racist as she does without offering evidence is just inflammatory rhetoric.
As if one bad sister isn’t enough, another sister, Rory, who looks more like Bobby Kennedy than perhaps anyone in the family barring RFK Jr., also came out against her brother.
“I think this election is going to come down to a handful of votes in a handful of states,” Rory Kennedy told George Stephanopoulos in April 2024 when RFK Jr. ran as an independent candidate. “And I am concerned that voting for Bobby is going to take votes away from Biden and lead to a Trump election and I’m very concerned what that will do to our country and to the world over the ensuing four years.”
Rory Elizabeth Kennedy is the youngest of the Kennedy siblings, born after her father’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in June 1968. She’s a documentary filmmaker—American Hollow (1999), Last Days in Vietnam (2014), and Ethel (2012), are just a few of her films—married to another documentary filmmaker, Mark Bailey. They live in the Los Angeles area. Rory started her social activism as a teenager when she got arrested at a civil rights demonstration with her mother’s approval.
Like her sister Kerry, Rory believes another Trump presidency will herald the fall of America. “A vote for RFK Jr. is dangerous,” she told CNN.
In 2018 she gave an interview to the leftwing The Guardian in which she spoke of the horrors of the Trump presidency.
“It’s horrible. It actually makes me depressed,” she said. “It has a psychologically damaging impact on me, as an individual. It’s really upsetting, and it is personal.”
“You feel it walking around and talking to people,” she continued. “There’s a cloud of sadness, disappointment and anxiety. He’s doing damage to the climate, to immigrants, to people who live in poverty, to workers, to women, to race relations… There’s a sexual predator in the White House,” she added, alluding to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee at the time, Brett Kavanaugh.
We might want to take a deep breath here and consider Maureen Callahan’s book, Ask Not. Did Rory say sexual predator?
Like most Kool Aid-drinking Dems, Rory uses the wholesome word “immigrants” to describe illegal aliens. Reading what she says in The Guardian, it’s hard to believe the woman is a documentary filmmaker. Since when does creative intelligence take a backseat to superficial TDS stereotypes like “Trump does damage to the climate, to immigrants, to people who live in poverty,” etc.
Also joining the Kennedy family denouncement of RFK Jr.’s support of Trump were siblings Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney and Christopher Kennedy. The orchestrated “attack” came in the form of a press release.
“We believe in Harris and Walz,” the statement read. “Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story.”
Despite family disapproval and condemnation, RFK Jr. has taken the high road and has not responded publicly to either Kerry or Rory but insisted that all the Kennedy family members love one another and “can disagree despite any policy differences.”
He insists other relatives supported his candidacy before he disbanded his campaign, but why have these family members not come forward?
Is it because they are afraid of public condemnations from the larger Kennedy clan when it comes to anything that might be seen as helping Donald Trump retake the White House?