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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disbanded his presidential campaign and threw his support behind Donald J. Trump, it sent the larger Kennedy family into a tizzy.
ABC News was quick to land an interview with Kerry Kennedy, the 7th of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children. Kerry told ABC she abhorred her brother’s actions but still loved him.
“RFK Jr. set fire to my father’s memory,” she added—apparently unmindful of the scathing revelations in Maureen Callahan’s New York Times bestseller, Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, a shocking takedown of both Robert Kennedy Sr. and John F. Kennedy. That book contained allegations concerning the latter’s indulgence in underage sex and the seduction of a young White House intern virgin after a Daiquiri-filled party and private White House tour. Yet another Kennedy sex victim.
It is Callahan’s book that set fire to the Kennedy myth, rather than RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump, but listening to Kerry on ABC you definitely got the feeling she considered endorsing Trump for president to be worse than rape and extreme predatory sexual behavior.
After all, Kennedy men will be Kennedy men. But endorsing Trump? In her ABC diatribe, Kerry—pictured in a spacious living room setting—tells viewers that the stakes in November couldn’t be higher.
“…My whole family is fighting so hard to reelect Kamala Harris and Coach Walz, who have been champions of the values my family has fought for years—Donald Trump is the polar opposite,” she said.
Does she mean “values” such as open borders, free health insurance, free housing, money and special privileges for illegal immigrants?
Kerry Kennedy doesn’t actually say. Rather, we’re supposed to travel back in time to the commonsense “values” that were universally appreciated during the JFK presidency but have since been warped by a very different Democrat party. Kerry then goes into a rant about Trump’s lying, selfishness, rage, racism, fascistic sympathies, criminal felony convictions, and desire to be a dictator for a day.
The woman is on a roll. She’s clearly very upset RFK Jr. endorsed Donald Trump.
“Dictator for a day” is a favorite Trump-quote among Trump Derangement Syndrome-affected Democrats who just aren’t capable of discerning the truth behind a facetious comment, such as using the word “dictator” when calling attention to disastrous Biden-Harris policies like open borders. What Trump was really saying was, the crisis at the border demands radical corrective action and the only way to do it is maybe to act like a “dictator.”
“Dictator” in this case is not about Trump becoming another fulltime Franco or Mussolini but merely issuing a series of harsh executive orders he said he would sign on his first day in office.
Yet people like Kerry Kennedy pretend not to understand this.
She reiterated how disgusted she was at her brother’s “betrayal,” as if all Kennedy family members had sworn a blood oath to the Democrat Party from birth.
Of course, in an unofficial way, the Kennedy family has sworn a kind of loyalty oath. Retaining their legacy as one of America’s premier Democrat families can only be maintained by remaining Democrat no matter who runs on the ticket: a Timothy McVeigh, Charles Manson or even Ted Bundy. You must support the party at all costs.
Deviations like RFK Jr. and his decision to endorse Trump could adversely affect the Kennedy family’s standing with the established Democrat elite—they do not want to see their royalty status reduced to serfdom if too many Kennedy people begin to think independently.
Kerry showed an embarrassing ignorance of campaign matters when she falsely told ABC that Donald Trump wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. Here’s a woman who has obviously never listened to a single Trump speech—he has stated he is adamantly opposed to such cuts—but opts to get all of her information from the Trump-hating legacy media.
And calling Trump a racist as she does without offering evidence is just inflammatory rhetoric.
As if one bad sister isn’t enough, another sister, Rory, who looks more like Bobby Kennedy than perhaps anyone in the family barring RFK Jr., also came out against her brother.
“I think this election is going to come down to a handful of votes in a handful of states,” Rory Kennedy told George Stephanopoulos in April 2024 when RFK Jr. ran as an independent candidate. “And I am concerned that voting for Bobby is going to take votes away from Biden and lead to a Trump election and I’m very concerned what that will do to our country and to the world over the ensuing four years.”
Rory Elizabeth Kennedy is the youngest of the Kennedy siblings, born after her father’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in June 1968. She’s a documentary filmmaker—American Hollow (1999), Last Days in Vietnam (2014), and Ethel (2012), are just a few of her films—married to another documentary filmmaker, Mark Bailey. They live in the Los Angeles area. Rory started her social activism as a teenager when she got arrested at a civil rights demonstration with her mother’s approval.
Like her sister Kerry, Rory believes another Trump presidency will herald the fall of America. “A vote for RFK Jr. is dangerous,” she told CNN.
In 2018 she gave an interview to the leftwing The Guardian in which she spoke of the horrors of the Trump presidency.
“It’s horrible. It actually makes me depressed,” she said. “It has a psychologically damaging impact on me, as an individual. It’s really upsetting, and it is personal.”
“You feel it walking around and talking to people,” she continued. “There’s a cloud of sadness, disappointment and anxiety. He’s doing damage to the climate, to immigrants, to people who live in poverty, to workers, to women, to race relations… There’s a sexual predator in the White House,” she added, alluding to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee at the time, Brett Kavanaugh.
We might want to take a deep breath here and consider Maureen Callahan’s book, Ask Not. Did Rory say sexual predator?
Like most Kool Aid-drinking Dems, Rory uses the wholesome word “immigrants” to describe illegal aliens. Reading what she says in The Guardian, it’s hard to believe the woman is a documentary filmmaker. Since when does creative intelligence take a backseat to superficial TDS stereotypes like “Trump does damage to the climate, to immigrants, to people who live in poverty,” etc.
Also joining the Kennedy family denouncement of RFK Jr.’s support of Trump were siblings Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney and Christopher Kennedy. The orchestrated “attack” came in the form of a press release.
“We believe in Harris and Walz,” the statement read. “Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story.”
Despite family disapproval and condemnation, RFK Jr. has taken the high road and has not responded publicly to either Kerry or Rory but insisted that all the Kennedy family members love one another and “can disagree despite any policy differences.”
He insists other relatives supported his candidacy before he disbanded his campaign, but why have these family members not come forward?
Is it because they are afraid of public condemnations from the larger Kennedy clan when it comes to anything that might be seen as helping Donald Trump retake the White House?
Ambassador Kennedy was a Hitler supporter to begin with.
The fact that Joe Jr died in the war against Hitler is delicious. ~
JFK was an ok president, but never had the decency to denounce his father’s support of Hitler.
The fact that Robert was murdered by a raging anti-Semite is delicious. ~
RFK Jr is the first and only Kennedy I find likable.
“Delicious” comment about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy senior is totally uncalled for. He was murdered not just by an anti-semite, but a Jordanian/Palestinian. Kennedy was a staunch supporter of israel, and sponsored legislation to make sure that Israel received the fighter jets that it needed (and which were instrumental in winning the 6-day war) after DeGaulle embargo the sale of French fighter jets to Israel. RFK, Jr. like his father is a strong supporter of Israel.
All that is true. However, RFK never denounced his father, came late to the pro-Israel end of the spectrum, and was thus useful as another painful open sore on Joe Kennedy’s soul.
I am a big believer in the idea that the offspring of Nazis must do Both good deeds for Jews And give a public renunciation of the offending parents.
I don’t play favorites between Dems and Repubs on this point either: alRand Paul is a senator from my state who has done many great things.and is a huge improvement over his father Ron, but…..I am still waiting to hear him denounce his father.
Great piece. Well written, as is most of the content on Front Page. Informative, factual and full of corroboration along with the editorializing. I especially loved the phrase: “Like most Kool Aid-drinking Dems.” Which pretty much describes Democrats now, sad to say.
Oh pity the poor Kennedy siblings. RFK Jr. has a mind of his own. And the kids have never exactly covered themselves in glory. They don’t seem to work at anything either.
We just finished watching the film Chappaquiddick. It captures all of the arrogance and elitism of Ted Kennedy and his crew after the accident. Kennedy made zero effort to save Mary Jo Kopechne. The coverup began the next day. He always was a real jerk.
But I was thinking about the whole Kennedy family lie. What did the brothers really accomplish? Other than JFK getting us through the Cuban Missile Crisis, not a hell of a lot. Lots of posing, virtue signaling speeches, pictures of them at the compound sailing their boats, and giving us a glimpse of what the vast majority of us would never have. “Aren’t they great?” we all thought. Let’s vote for them.
Bottom line Ted Kennedy was good at getting re-elected in a deep blue state. He really didn’t have to do anything in Washington except chase women, go to dinners, sponsor some legislation, and make a few fiery speeches
Hence the moniker “the Lion of the Senate”. He should have been called the Liar of the Senate.
I hope RFK Jr manages to get a lot of votes for Trump based on name recognition. But don’t go looking for Camelot.
Trump ’24 MAGA
You misspelled Loin …
If you are going to point out misspellings at least get the word right.
you aren’t funny or clever
Do you mean to say the Muslims wear lioncloths on their heads?
Allan Goldstein:
Were you born stupid or did your liberal indoctrination render you stupid? Despite what you might think, trolls like you aren’t funny, just contemptibly pathetic.
I’m starting to think you are an unfunny retard. I didn’t mention Muslims in my original comment, derp.
“If my dear friend Donald Trump ever decided to sacrifice his fabulous billionaire lifestyle to become President he would be an unstoppable force for ultimate justice that Democrats and Republicans alike would celebrate”
John F Kennedy Jr.
[George Magazine June 1999
I guess all Kennedy’s don’t think like the siblings of RFK Jr.. if RFK children had a clue they would recognize that their father would have supported Trump as well. RFK & JFK were both ardent supporters of the Constitution & Bill of Rights something that today’s democrat party adamantly opposes. Spoiled petulant brats who haven’t a modicum independent thought if they think their father and uncle would support the radical Marxist views of the incompetent Kamala Harris.
Wow! That is a juicy quote! Never heard it before.
Change a few details and this could just as easily be – – > why the jino population only votes exclusively D and attacks any defectors…I’ve often said this jino elite could have just as easily voted for Hitler about 90 years ago.
A disheartening read in that I would expect such ostensibly sophisticated people to be … well … sophisticated. Instead both Kerry and Rory come off as xenophobic rubes, willful subjects of socio-political provincialism that has little to do with honest self-awareness or even love of country.
But then there’s my idealism again, wanting to believe the best in people. In reality they probably lived like the metaphoric fatted veal calves especially typical of the upper class Left, kept chained to a wall to prevent their muscles from developing.
In the end, symbols of the decline of our nation, that our aristocrats are so disturbingly detached from reality and our media literally gives them a national stage for expression.
““Dictator” in this case is not about Trump becoming another fulltime Franco or Mussolini but merely issuing a series of harsh executive orders he said he would sign on his first day in office.’
EOs will be our path to complete dictatorship.
The Democratic Party walked away from RFK Jr. and not the other way around.
The assassinations of JFK and RFK were despicable and unwarranted acts of violence.
I’m 65; I remember both.
Sadly, they never had the opportunity to meet Jeff Epstein. The three would have been pals.
RFK Jr. You know what your family was. Mine was similar. I will not repeat. Please don’t you…
Is Kerry Kennedy the one who cheated on her husband.
JFK and RFK politics is more closely aligned with Trump’s. That is how much closer todays Democrats are following in Linen’s and Stalin’s politics.
I urge free flying lessons for the Kennedy thugs who have tried to intimidate their brother.
The Kennedy family was one of the worse, most disgusting things ever to happen to the USA. The Father was a criminal and his sons lying rapists. Everyone of them got what they deserved. A curse on their entire family.
Many of the things Trump has said over the years before and during his time in Office were very similar to the words that came out of JFK and we know what happened to JFK and we can see what they tired to do to Trump recently.
Anybody that thinks America is in a better situation today than it was during the Trump Administration is seriously weird…
Dear RFK,
Champions of what values? Your uncle JFK championed conservative values and they just don’t see it.