Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scourge of Big Pharma and scion of one of America’s most powerful political families, has filed a run for President in a challenge to Joe Biden. The Telegraph has more.
Mr Kennedy, 69, filed a statement of candidacy on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, which would likely pit him against incumbent Mr. Biden, who is expected to declare his own run for 2024.
The former attorney becomes the second candidate to throw their hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination after self-help author Marianne Williamson declared a run.
Mr. Kennedy’s chance at ending up in the White House is a long shot. Mr. Biden, 80, the oldest president in U.S. history, still has considerable support among Democratic voters.
Mr. Kennedy is the son of former New York Senator, U.S. Attorney General and assassinated 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy.
He was once a bestselling author and environmental lawyer and had been long involved in the anti-vaccine movement, but the effort intensified during the Covid pandemic.
Kennedy is founder and Chairman of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an organisation which seeks to protect children from harmful medical interventions and other damaging exposures. Since 2021 Covid vaccines have been prominent among its concerns. In 2020 CHD’s revenue was $6.8 million, according to filings made with charity regulators, more than double the level the previous year.
Kennedy hinted in March that he was considering a run. He told a crowd in New Hampshire: “I am thinking about it, yes. I have passed the biggest hurdle, that my wife has greenlighted it.”
He later posted on his Twitter account: “If it looks like I can raise the money and mobilise enough people to win, I’ll jump in the race. If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms. Together we can restore America’s democracy.”
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
He’d get my vote if I was in the U.S but let’s be honest, he’s not got a snowball in hell’s chance. And I think we all know why so I won’t resort to being Captain Obvious..
And this is just a taste of the hate that’s coming his way;
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1643734754301288448
I’m sure he would agree with you that he has no chance of winning, he’s not stupid, and I don’t think he’s running in the hope that he might win, I think he’s running as it will give him a platform to make his views known to a wider audience and to have the opportunity to ask Biden and others awkward questions, etc.
Ron Paul’s two presidential runs were hugely influential in the USA for turning libertarianism from an academic curiosity to a mass movement, although he was largely airbrushed out of the BBC’s coverage of the Republican nominations even when he was doing relatively well.
Entirely agree Mogs but I would add that Robert Kennedy is one exceptionally brave man. Given his family history taking on the establishment is a very dangerous move. The reality is that he is not of course taking on dementia Joe but the whole phalanx of anti-humanists ranged against us.
Robert Kennedy is a very intelligent man and I am sure he will appreciate that once he formally declares a declaration of war will have been issued, to all intents and purposes.
The fake news, the false flag attacks will become constants.
Robert Kennedy fighting for the presidency of the USA will surely be a fight to the death. It is a fight for peace and freedom against misery, perpetual war and enslavement. And it is a fight that most definitely will not be confined to the United States.
God Bless Robert Kennedy. I do hope this is “cometh the hour, cometh the man.”
So, he’s brave, intelligent and on the side of peace and freedom against perpetual war and enslavement. I agree with your comments. The fact that nobody gives him a hope in hell is a really sad refection on the voting proclivities of the American people.
The guy is incredible and must have skin as thick as rhino hide to do what he’s done throughout all of these years. It’s like he thrives on the haters and vitriol that’s aimed his way because he doesn’t skip a beat, just keeps on going because not only is he intelligent but he knows he has truth on his side. Nothing phases him. Case in point; why hasn’t the poisonous gnome sued him for libel after the book RFK Jr wrote about him? Nope, the evil micro turd was still getting paid by the U.S government and held in high esteem anyway…RFK Jr is like the Duracell bunny for justice and truth, I just worry that this latest endeavour is gonna have a target painted on his back. Can lightening really strike twice in the same family? I wish him all the very best in his quest and will follow his journey with interest.
He has to cope with opposition even from within his own family, but at least his wife is supporting his presidential run.
Three times.
I could be wrong here, but as I understand it the good Senator WANTS Fauci to sue him for libel so that he can expose all Fauci’s wrongdoins. However Fauci won’t do this because he knows his lies will be exposed.
My guess is that, before long, Biden will be on a flight somewhere, perhaps Japan, and will send a signal somewhere.
By the time the plane lands in Tokyo, it will be found that, against all expectation, Robert F. Kennedy will have gone for a walk and decided to swallow a few pills and hack into his wrist with a blunt pocket knife, whilst sitting under a tree.
Joe Biden will announce to the Press in Tokyo that there will be a Public Enquiry (but no Inquest).
The Enquiry will find that he committed suicide.
Yes, I know, unbelievable. But we live in strange times.
I admire this guy greatly, but with his speech impediment his acceptance speech would last 2 days
OK Sorry it was a joke.
Yeah a joke but actually his speech problem would be a factor, surely. He’s highly intelligent and genuinely caring – whereas Sleepy Joe is a corrupt, vicious moron; but his speech impediment does indeed make him difficult to listen to unless one already has sympathy with his views and with him as a person. And I’ve a vague suspicion there aren’t many out there (comparatively speaking) who fit that bill.
Ron De Santis vs Robert F Kennedy Jr. That’d be Fauci’s presidential contest from hell.
No body is perfect but everything this man has to say is worth listening to. The level of corruption he reveals in his podcast and books is frightening. A brave man, let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself he is putting himself in the crosshairs.
Kennedy won’t win the Democratic nomination, he is not part of the woke crowd. The real joy of his campaign is going to be the debates. He has enough firepower of his own to run rings round Biden.
I agree he won’t get anywhere near, but like you say he will get air time hopefully. I think it will be difficult to cancel him but a certain intelligence organisation has many strings to its bow.
I think this is entirely his objective. He can debate the shit out of anyone in his path and leave them for dust. It’s what happens when you have masses of evidence and a vast knowledge of your subject, accrued over many years ( not to mention his lawyer skills ) at your disposal. He gets a spotlight on him and he will be a very formidable opponent for anyone wishing to take him on, and unlike Steve Kirsch, he doesn’t need to place monetary bets in the millions and wait for nobody to take him up on it. The hate and smears will come from all angles but it’s nothing new for this guy is it? Gotta respect a guy with such a monumental set of titanium-strength balls to take on this endeavour.
I must be popular today my uptick is worth about 5 or 6.
Whether he wins the White House or not, his candidacy will force the Democrat party to declare what it is or reveal what it’s not. It’s not remotely the party of JFK and RFK Sr. It’s now the woke totalitarian censorship party, and party leaders’ reaction to his run will make that clear, no matter how much they try to smear RFK Jr.
I think John Leake sums up RFK Jr brilliantly;
”Mr. Kennedy was an environmental activist thirty years before it became fashionable. For decades, he worked as an attorney to protect the natural world from corporate industrial polluters. He has been especially troubled by the contamination of our waterways such as the Hudson River with hazardous waste, including mercury. In 2005 he became concerned about a mercury compound used as a preservative in childhood vaccines, which prompted him to conduct a thorough investigation of vaccine safety in general. He found it especially alarming that the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act granted vaccine manufacturers immunity from all civil and criminal liability for injuries or deaths caused by their products.
In the absence of legal liability, he realized that the only thing likely to regulate their conduct is scrutiny from a public figure, and because no other public figures were stepping up to do it, he himself assumed the responsibility. No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes. Mr. Kennedy’s critical scrutiny of vaccine makers (coining billions while bearing zero product liability) has not been met with debate, but with vitriolic, ad hominem attacks and accusations of being a conspiracy theorist. Implied in these attacks is that no one should dare even question the safety of vaccines.”
Seriously though, if RFK Jr has an untimely demise due to pneumonia or Covid, we know it’s all complete horseshit.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-running-for-president
Thanks for this post Mogs, I’d say it was bang on the money.👍
I hope, for his sake, that the Deep State doesn’t use the same “stop Kennedy” methods they used in the ’60s.