Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed the media for dragging his campaign Sunday, saying he has been slammed “even more than President Trump was slammed” by mainstream media outlets.
“I’ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented,” Kennedy said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic who is running a longshot primary campaign against President Joe Biden, is more popular among Republicans than Democrats, according to polling.
The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and the son of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. has been hit with backlash for his stances on vaccines, particularly recent comments he made suggesting that the coronavirus could have been “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while sparing Jewish and Chinese people. Kennedy denied allegations of racism and antisemitism, saying on Twitter: “I have never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.”
“I mean, listen, if I believed the stuff that’s written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy told host Maria Bartiromo. “I would think I was a very despicable person.”
The news media gave Trump one free pass after another, so in many ways, RFK Jr is right.
But he’s still a fucken clown and his presidential run is purposefully done as a disruption to Biden and managed by conservative interests. He’s trying to be a spoiler candidate that siphons just enough votes away from Biden to get Trump elected.
So fuck everything about the guy, but when he says the media is harder on him than Trump, he’s right by a technicality simply because the media gave Trump the easiest time what with the countless number of things they could have, and should have, investigated about him, but chose not to all because of ratings.