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RFK Jr.'s Insane Ego Has Already Had Deadly Consequences - The Wednesday AM Quickie 7/3/24

By Corey Pein —

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THE BIG NEWS

RFK Jr. Is Even More Messed Up Than You Thought

I figure we all deserve a little break from some of the week's most dire news. The estimable Joe Hagan of Vanity Fair has published a long profile of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and it is well worth reading. Not only for the salacious anecdotes from the dynastic scion's obscenely privileged life, but because it clearly illustrates why the people who know him best are so staunchly opposed to his candidacy. Nobody expects him to win, but many other Kennedys fear Bobby's latest ego trip could help put Donald Trump back in the White House.

  • Last year, RFK Jr. texted a photo to a friend in which he held and pretended to eat the barbecued remains of a dog, apparently while on a trip to Korea in 2010, the same year he was diagnosed with a dead tapeworm in his brain. The person who received the photo considered it "disturbing evidence of Kennedy's poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family."
  • He also has a habit of texting pictures of nude women to friends. "Those friends assumed Kennedy himself had taken the pictures, but they didn't know whether the subjects had consented to having their genitalia photographed, let alone shared with other people."
  • RFK Jr. repeatedly groped a family babysitter, Eliza Cooney, in 1998 when Cooney was 23 and he was 45. She also once found him in her bedroom with her diary laying open on her bed. "I'm not a church boy," Kennedy said yesterday when asked about the allegation. "I am who I am."
  • Family members believe his "protracted 'brain fog'" may owe more to his 14 years as a heroin user, beginning when he was 15 years old. He regularly shot up with his "troubled" brother David, who died of an overdose at age 28 in 1984.
  • The family of Kennedy's former wife Mary Richardson – who died by suicide in 2012, two years Kennedy left her for the actor Cheryl Hines – "has never forgiven Kennedy, privately maintaining that his boorish and insensitive behavior was a factor in Mary's death, hiring a investigative firm to explore a possible wrongful death suit against him, and accusing Kennedy of psychological torture."
  • He was effectively fired from the environmental nonprofit where he long worked due to his increasingly outrageous anti-vax activism and his courtship of Donald Trump around the issue in 2016 and 2017. "'On Monday morning he's giving a speech saying, 'Do not believe any scientists [on vaccines],'" recalls a person with close ties to Riverkeeper. "And on Tuesday, 'You've gotta believe the scientists when it comes to climate change or what we’re doing to the river.'"
  • RFK Jr.'s anti-vax advocacy in American Samoa in 2018 and 2019 led prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to halt MMR vaccines on the island. The consequences were fast and deadly:
"Over the ensuing months, the island was hit by the largest measles outbreak in its history, infecting 5,707 citizens and killing 83 people, most of them children. The outbreak was so lethal, the prime minister declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory vaccinations, eventually curtailing the spread. Later one of Kennedy's biggest critics, a pediatrician and member of the FDA's advisory committee on vaccines, Paul Offit, told PBS that 'Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had everything to do with that. And that shows you how disinformation can kill.'"

He also defended a cousin who may well have murdered a 15-year-old girl and kept an owl in his house for a while. Read it all here.

Biden Sundown Watch: 2nd Quarter Fundraising Lags Behind Trump

  • Insiders Say Biden's Troubling Debate Performance Was Not an Isolated Event "The fact is, there wasn't an open dialogue about whether he should run except for the people who would benefit from him running," a Democratic operative close to the campaign says of Biden's increasingly insular circle of advisers. via the New York Times and Politico.
  • At Least 25 House Democrats Will Call on Biden to Step Aside If He 'Seems Shaky' in Coming Days Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, a key Biden ally, yesterday said he would support Vice President Kamala Harris if Biden decides to abandon his reelection bid; veteran Texas progressive Rep. Lloyd Doggett, meanwhile, became the first member of the party in Congress to publicly ask Biden to drop out. via Reuters, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.
  • Biden Plans to Meet with Democratic Governors, Hold a Press Conference, and Sit for a TV Interview "Folks want to know — what's the plan, Joe? What is the plan not only for you, but the rest of us to get out there and carry the flag? Are you able and is the campaign able to maintain the pace?" says one person "familiar" with Biden's planned call with the governors. via Politico, the AP, and ABC News.
  • 'What the Hell Is Happening?': Hunter Starts to Join White House Meetings Some White House staff are freaking out now that Biden's legally troubled son Hunter has "popped into" a couple of government meetings after the family's post-debate huddle at Camp David last weekend. via NBC News

Trumpdates: Giuliani Disbarred

  • New York Judge Delays Trump's Sentencing in Hush Money Case Until Sept. 18 at the Earliest "The crux of the issue for [Judge Juan] Merchan will come down to whether some of the evidence, like former Trump aide Hope Hicks' testimony describing a conservation she had with Trump while he was president, is off-limits [thanks to this week's Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling]. If so, a new trial could be required unless Merchan finds the error was harmless because Trump would have still been convicted." via NBC News.
  • Bribery, Assassinations, Martial Law: Experts Predict How Trump Might Abuse Supreme Court's Gift of Immunity "I can't imagine a better invitation to tyranny than the Supreme Court just gave," Northwestern Law professor Martin Redish says. "It's almost like they sent out a formal invitation — you know, dress wear is required." via the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and the Associated Press.
  • Justice Department Will Forge Ahead with Trump Prosecutions Even if He Wins the Election The department has a longstanding rule against charging sitting presidents, but anonymous current officials say that "if Trump wins the election, the clock on the two federal cases against him would keep ticking until Jan. 20, when he would be sworn in." via the Washington Post and the New York Times.
  • Deranged Felon Dreams About Getting Back Into 'Showbiz' at NBC Author Ramin Setoodeh says he found no evidence for Trump's claim that he was being wooed to return to TV; Trump told him that the appeal of TV stardom is that "You can be evil. You can be horrible." via HuffPost.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • UK Election: Top Tory Minister Predicts 'the Largest Labour Landslide Majority' in British History General election polls show Labour winning by historic margins with party leader Keir Starmer set to take over from Rishi Sunak as prime minister after 14 years of Conservative rule. via the Guardian and BBC News.
  • Putin Pal Orban Visits Zelenskyy and Tells Him to Cede 20 Percent of Ukraine to Russia Meanwhile, new polling suggests NATO leaders are "unlikely to find domestic support for troop deployments" to Ukraine by European Union allies, with support ranging from 4 percent to 22 percent in favor. via the Washington Post and Politico.
  • Jamaica Awaits Beryl's Fearsome Arrival After Powerful Hurricane Devastates Grenada "It's clear that the climate crisis is pushing disasters to record-breaking new levels of destruction," says United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, whose family home on Carriacou was damaged by the storm. via the New York Times and the Associated Press.
  • New Labor Department Rule Would Protect 35 Million Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat "More protections would kick in at 90 degrees, including monitoring for signs of heat illness and mandatory 15-minute rest breaks every two hours." via the Post and the Los Angeles Times.

SOME NUMBER

42

That's how many Los Angelenos are still living in hotel rooms three years after the LAPD blew up part of a South LA neighborhood after botching the detonation of a truckload of confiscated fireworks. As the LA Times reports, the city council yesterday unanimously approved $21 million in settlements with more than a dozen people harmed by the blast, which Councilman Curren Price says "should never have happened" and "was entirely preventable."

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PARTING WORDS

"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be."

― Heritage Foundation president and "Project 2025" leader Kevin Roberts, speaking to the MAGA propaganda outlet Real America's Voice about how he and other fascists view the political moment.

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