Caroline Kennedy calls cousin RFK Jr. a ‘predator’ ahead of his confirmation hearings to be Trump’s health secretary Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday warned that her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a “predator” ahead of his high-profile confirmation hearings this week to be President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services secretary, urging senators to reject his nomination.
Kennedy, who said she felt obligated to speak out, read aloud the letter she sent to senators detailing the troubling behavior from her cousin that she witnessed over the years, accusing him of having hypocritical views on vaccines and being “addicted to attention and power.”
“I’ve known Bobby my whole life. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator,” Kennedy said.
She recalled one disturbing incident when her cousin fed baby chickens and mice in a blender to his birds many years ago.
I saw younger brothers and cousins fall into his clutches of drug addiction. His basement, his garage, and his dorm room always had the activity going on, and that is where drugs were usually to be found, but he delighted in showing off how he would put baby chickens and mice into a blender to feed to the hawks. It was often a macabre circus of hopelessness and brutality,” she said.
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While she acknowledges that her cousin has managed to “pull himself out of illness and disease,” Kennedy notes that he is quick to live a double standard and gain financially through some of his vaccine skepticism.
In the meantime, while he may tout a new generation for AA meetings, Bobby is addicted to attention and power. Bobby uses the fear parents of sick children have to take matters into his own hands by vaccinating his own children while hypocritically getting a following that discourages other parents from vaccinating their children,” she said.
CNN has reached out for comment to a spokesperson for RFK Jr.
Caroline Kennedy, the former ambassador to Australia, said it hadn’t been easy to keep silent during her cousin’s failed presidential campaign but felt a duty to speak out because she felt he had misrepresented the assassinations of her father, John F. Kennedy, and uncle, Robert F. Kennedy.
“It also wasn’t easy to keep quiet last year when Bobby expropriated my father’s image and hijacked President Kennedy’s legacy to promote his own lost presidential campaign and then fawned over Donald Trump for a job,” she said.
“Bobby continues to grandstand off my father’s assassination and that of his own father. It’s incomprehensible to me that someone willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies for publicity would be put in charge of America’s life and death situations,” she continued.
Members of the storied Democratic family have pushed back in the past on RFK Jr.’s positions, and the broader Kennedy family has largely avoided his presidential campaign, even when the then-candidate tried to leverage his last name and family legacy.
On Tuesday, in calling on the Senate to reject her cousin’s nomination, Kennedy said her father and uncle “would be disgusted” by his views.
It has been apparent in recent days that RFK Jr. would have to win over uncertain Republicans to get the job in the Trump administration, with key GOP senators wanting public commitments on issues like abortion and vaccines before pledging their support.
He has met with senators on both sides of the aisle over the last month as he tries to make his case directly to them behind closed doors.
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“The president is also opening the press briefing room, for the first time, to bloggers, podcasters, and social media influencers,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “We want as many voices included as possible at the White House.”.
According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who spoke publicly on Tuesday for the first time since President Trump was inaugurated, she said that her administration would return more than 400 press passes taken away under the Biden administration. The White House is opening new seats at the front of the briefing room to accommodate new media outlets.
‘View’ hosts do doubletake when Fetterman calls charges against Trump ‘politically motivated’
View hosts doubletake when Fetterman says charges against Trump “politically motivated” Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman told The View Monday he thinks the New York criminal trial against President Donald Trump was “politically motivated.”
While discussing Trump and former President Joe Biden’s controversial pardons, Fetterman said, “I also agree that the trial in this city, in New York, was politically motivated, that wouldn’t otherwise have been prosecuted if it was someone else.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin appeared to be taken aback and brought the discussion back full circle after, “Just for clarification, did you mean that the 34-count case in which Donald Trump was found guilty of various financial crimes was politically motivated here in New York?”
“I found that when the judicial system gets weaponized and targets political enemies for political gain, I think that’s inappropriate,” Fetterman confirmed.
“I think that degrades our collective trust in this very important institution, whether that’s a Democrat going after a Republican or a Republican going after a Democrat,” he said. “I like to call it strikes and balls, but the judicial system has to remain impartial. I mean, that’s really the cornerstone of our society.”
Trump was given a sentence of unconditional discharge in early January after having been convicted of falsifying business records charges emanating from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s yearslong investigation.
Fetterman also tackled assertions that his views and policies have swung to the right, saying he’d “make a pretty terrible Republican.”
Hostin asked him about his “commitment” to the Democratic Party in light of his decision to join Truth Social and his stances on fracking and immigration.
Fetterman also met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago before his second inauguration on January 20, telling Fox News he is a senator “for all Pennsylvanians” — not just Democrats.
He told “The View” that he had a “positive” meeting with Trump and described him as “kind” and “cordial.”
Some of those acts have ignited much online chatter that Fetterman may switch his party one day.
The Pennsylvania senator said on “The View” he is against the pardons given by Trump to the January 6 defendants and put it on the record that he will not join the Republican Party.
“I’d make a pretty lousy Republican because, you know, pro-choice, pro-really strong immigration, pro-LGBTQ, you know … I don’t think I’d be a good fit. So, I’m not going to change my party and if I am going to do, I’m going to show up. I’ll give you the exclusive I can announce,” he said.
Just look at my votes. He later added that look at the things that I haven’t changed in a way.
Fetterman endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president during the 2024 election cycle but was one of the few Democrats who spoke publicly about Trump earning strong support among voters-most notably in his battleground home state of Pennsylvania.
Trump ultimately won Pennsylvania, which proved to be one of the pivotal states in which he won the election outright. Fetterman after the win described it as a “serious flex” and slammed Democratic rhetoric before the election, which tried to brand Trump a “fascist.”
