2023-04-20 02:44:20
The controversial Robert Kennedy Junior, nephew of assassinated US President JFK, announced on Wednesday that he was a candidate for the US presidential election of 2024. “I am announcing my candidacy for the Democratic nomination”, launched the sixty-year-old, whose chances of success are limited, in front of his supporters in Boston.
Robert Kennedy Junior is the son of former Democratic Justice Minister and presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968, but also the nephew of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was killed five years earlier.
Criticism of US aid to Ukraine
A lawyer specializing in environmental issues, he has been known since 2005 to propagate conspiracy theories on vaccines, in particular linking autism to one of their components. An assertion contradicted by the scientific community. During the pandemic, he was one of the main international personalities to oppose health measures head-on, a campaign which saw him notably participate in a demonstration in Switzerland in November 2021.
Lire: A Kennedy among the Swiss antivax
In the crowd at his meeting, several of his activists wore anti-vaccine caps. During the rally, organized in the state of Massachusetts – the stronghold of the Kennedy family – he pledged to “end the divisions” that are eating away at the United States, by finally telling “the truth to the American people”.
In recent months, Robert Kennedy Jr. has also repeatedly criticized US aid to Ukraine in the war against the Russian invasion. “What we are told about this war is not the truth,” he said shortly after his candidacy was announced in an interview on Fox News.
His positions have earned him many criticisms within his political camp, even within his own family, report it New York Times. Most of them, including his sister, have announced their support for Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.
Robert Kennedy Junior is one of the few candidates to officially join the Democratic camp, frozen pending President Joe Biden’s decision. At 80, the tenant of the White House claims to have “the intention” of running for a second term, but has not yet formalized his entry into the campaign.
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