Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. held a press conference announcing the suspension of his campaign and endorsement of President Trump. I have posted the video below. Kennedy now seeks to have his name removed from the ballot in battleground states. He emphasized that he is not terminating his campaign insofar as his name will otherwise remain on the ballot. See The Hill’s story here.
Kennedy called out the “palace coup” that deposed President Biden decried the suppression of his campaign by DNC lawfare of the Marc Elias variety and the suppression of his views by the government in coordination with its friends in the mainstream and social media. Kennedy’s statement powerfully condemns the modus operandi of the Democratic Party.
“In the name of saving democracy,” he said, “the Democratic Party has set about dismantling it.” He identified the DNC lawfare against him with the Democratic Party lawfare against President Trump. He nevertheless reached out recently to the Harris campaign to arrive at an understanding of the kind he has now arrived at with the Trump campaign.
“When a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election,” he said. I wouldn’t call Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi operatives, but the point remains.
Referring to his father and uncle, Kennedy said, “They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days.” He referred to “the DNC and its media organs” engineering the surge in Harris’s popularity — “based upon nothing…only smoke and mirrors and balloons in the highly produced Chicago circus.”
“What alarms me,” he continued, “is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. president colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression and that’s the very right upon which all our other constitutional rights rest.”
“Our television networks exposed themselves as Democratic Party organs over the course of more than a year in a campaign where my poll numbers reached at times in the high 20s,” he said. He referred to them as “the DNC-aligned mainstream media networks.” He contrasted his own experience with them over the past 16 months with that of Ross Perot in 1992. “Representatives of those networks are in this room right now,” he added. “The mainstream media has joined this systemic attack on democracy.”
It’s a powerful statement undermining the pretensions of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, for that matter. Kennedy lost me when he wandered into Ukraine and “neocon military adventures” as well as public health issues, but this is the heart of it and I should think the heart of it will strike a chord with many who hear it.
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