Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dropped his primary challenge to President Joe Biden today and instead announced his intention to launch an “independent” bid for the White House. A liberal firebrand and son of a family tantamount to Democrat – if not American – political royalty, Kennedy has made waves in the 2024 election cycle by pitching himself as a ‘moderate’ populist. But more than two decades of Kennedy’s own statements, social media posts, and even arrest records reveal a candidate who has repeatedly espoused extreme environmentalist and radical socialist beliefs.
In a 2019 post on X (formerly Twitter), Kennedy backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for a top personal income tax rate of 70 percent. He said he believed conservatives would try to paint Ocasio-Cortez as a “know-nothing” for her efforts, and in the same year, endorsed Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’, stating “This is huge!” Estimates show the ‘Green New Deal’ would cost Americans between $51-$93 trillion over the next decade, if enacted.
A leaked 2016 legal memo sent to the New York Attorney General revealed Kennedy urged government officials to ban ExxonMobile from doing business in the state. Kennedy is suspected of playing an outsized role in then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to ban fracking in New York, costing thousands of jobs. Cuomo is Kennedy’s ex-brother-in-law. In 2014, he said ExxonMobile deserved the corporate equivalent of the “death penalty”. In 2013, Kennedy was arrested alongside other radical environmentalists during a protest outside the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Not even the U.S. military is immune to Kennedy’s environmental radicalism, who has made repeated claims that the Department of Defense is one of America’s worst polluters. Kennedy has gone so far as to accuse the military of “mounting a sneak attack against America’s health and safety.”
Outside of his support for radical environmentalism and socialist economics, Kennedy appears to be indistinguishable from most Democrat lawmakers. In 2007 and 2016 Kennedy endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. He called the NRA a “terror group” after the Parkland school shooting. And regarding the 2024 presidential race, Kennedy recently admitted he takes more votes from Donald Trump than he does Joe Biden.
For those who want an end to the American carnage, Kennedy is now surely just a spoiler candidate aiming to hand Joe Biden (and Barack Obama) another four years.
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