BOSTON (LifeSiteNews) – Presidential nephew and medical freedom leader Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday he is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, in a long-shot bid that challenges the orthodoxies of both parties with a pledge to “end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country.”
Kennedy, nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy and son of the late Attorney General Robert Kennedy, is a longtime environmental activist and medical freedom leader, as well as founder of the group Children’s Health Defense, which gained prominence in recent years due to the ongoing controversy of the COVID-19 vaccines. The announcement follows Kennedy registering with the Federal Elections Commission to run on April 5.
“My whole family, including myself, have long personal relationships with President Biden,” Kennedy told a crowd at his announcement at Park Plaza Hotel in Massachusetts. “And they are entitled to their beliefs, and I respect their opinions — and I love them back. Is it too much to hope that we could have the same thing for our country? We have a polarization in our country today that is so toxic, so dangerous, than at any time since the Civil War.”
On his campaign website, Kennedy pledges to “make government transparent,” protect whistleblowers, “rein in the lobbyists and slam shut the revolving door that shunts people from government agencies to lucrative positions in the companies they were supposed to regulate,” get “money out of politics,” “heal the divide between Left and Right,” “repai[r] the damage caused by centuries of bigotry” through a “program of Targeted Community Repair” based on “not guilt for the sins of one’s ancestors, but rather compassion,” “incentive the transition of industry to zero-waste cycles and clean energy sources,” “rebuild the industrial infrastructure” and “support labor in reclaiming its fair share of American prosperity,” end U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts, “dismantle the censorship-industrial complex,” “transition prisons away from a punishment paradigm to a rehabilitation paradigm,” “transform the police” with retraining to emphasize “deescalation and mediation,” and more.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has disgraced his office by weaponizing his position to attack former President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump’s arraignment represents another example of how the justice system is being abused by those in power to quash dissent and silence one of their biggest critics ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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Much like when the FBI raided Trump’s home in Florida, this arraignment is sending another clear message that anyone who holds a dissenting political position can be targeted by the Deep State.
The charges against Trump were brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who previously boasted about filing over a hundred lawsuits against Trump while serving in the New York Attorney General’s office, and reportedly received $1 million in campaign contributions from the Color of Change PAC, a leftist advocacy group funded by prominent left-wing mega donor George Soros.
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The embattled former president was arraigned after a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict him on charges related to the improper filing of alleged hush money paid to pornography “actress” Stephanie Clifford during his 2016 presidential campaign. The former president has denied that any affair took place.
Trump insists that the attempt to jail him is politically-motivated and proves that the United States under the leadership of radical leftists has become like a third-world country.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has also penned a letter to Bragg demanding answers regarding what he termed an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” arguing the charges were only being brought against Trump in what is now an old case because of his presidential candidacy.
According to Jordan, the available facts suggest that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump is “motivated by political calculations,” thus requiring “congressional scrutiny.”
Jordan’s letter came after GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called Trump’s then-impending indictment “an outrageous abuse of power”, going on to blast Bragg as “a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump.”
McCarthy also promised to stand up congressional committees to investigate whether federal dollars were used to “subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”
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Kennedy’s vocal opposition to COVID vaccines, lockdowns, and mandates has made him an unlikely ally of many conservatives in recent years, though he has a history of far-left positions that may surprise his most recent fans.
In 2005, he suggested that Republican energy policies were to blame for Hurricane Katrina, and that oil was the true motivation for the wars to depose the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. In 2014, he declared that longtime GOP donors the Koch brothers should be “at the Hague with all the other war criminals” and said of those who deny anthropogenic global warming, “I wish there were a law you could punish them with.” He later denied believing “all” so-called “climate deniers” should be jailed, while adding that he did want state attorneys general to use their power to force corporations that take the same view out of business.
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He has said in the past that he favors legal abortion, opposes repealing Obamacare, and supported the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex unions. On the other hand, he has also said regarding gun control that “we should focus our efforts on enforcing existing laws rather than creating new ones.”
Kennedy is sufficiently out of step with the modern Democratic Party that he is not expected to pose a serious threat at winning the nomination, but a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released this week shows that 14% of Americans who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 would back Kennedy instead, suggesting he resonates with a disaffected minority of Democrats and could pose a serious problem for the party if he were to run as a third-party candidate in the 2024 general election.
Meanwhile, Biden insists he will run for a second term, although his underwater approval ratings and ongoing questions about his cognitive health continue to fuel speculation that Democrats will replace him with a younger candidate, such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom.