- Kennedy’s marketing campaign reportedly spent $68,000 on Russell Model’s comedy set
- Model has since confirmed his help for Donald Trump, nevertheless
Russell Model received paid practically $70,000 to look at Robert F Kennedy’s marketing campaign occasion final month – the place he claimed the CIA had infiltrated the media – however has since endorsed Donald Trump, in accordance with a brand new report.
Kennedy’s marketing campaign splashed greater than $68,000 to Model’s manufacturing firm to cowl the price of the comic’s journey bills, and that of his crew.
This contains two separate funds of $61,000 and $7,000 for ‘occasion leisure.’
The British actor and comic had appeared at a comedy occasion for Kennedy’s long-shot presidential bid in Nashville, Tennessee, alongside different performers comparable to Rob Schneider and Jim Breuer.
As a part of his quick set, Model spewed conspiracy theories which had been welcomed by supporters of Kennedy, who’s one in all America’s most outstanding anti-vaxxers.
However regardless of his hefty pay-check from the presidential candidate, Model inspired Individuals to vote for Trump on his podcast ‘Keep Free with Russell Model’ just a few weeks later.
Actor and comic Russell Model was reportedly paid $68,000 by Robert F Kennedy’s marketing campaign to look at an occasion for the presidential candidate in Nashville final month, in accordance with TMZ
Information of Model’s pay-check comes after the comic confirmed his help for presidential candidate Donald Trump in a current episode of his podcast. Pictured: Model throughout his efficiency at a fundraiser for Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s presidential marketing campaign final month
In his set Mr Model talked about comparable conspiracy theories to his on-line TV reveals and podcasts, the place he mocks coronavirus mandates and vaccine necessities
RFK Jr, thought of my many to be an outsider candidate, beforehand appeared on Model’s podcast
Whereas he did not outright endorse the previous US president, he stated he discovered it obscure why ‘freedom-loving’ Individuals would select to vote for President Joe Biden within the upcoming election.
The comic, who has been vocal in opposition to censorship, stated he felt ‘involved’ in regards to the ‘snobbery, contempt and condemnation’ by liberals of Trump supporters who’re ‘plainly held by his detractors’, including that they’ve been liable for the ‘weaponization of the authorized system’.
‘In a straight selection between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, for those who care about democracy, for those who care about freedom, I do not understand how you might do something apart from vote for Donald Trump for exactly the explanations that they declare that you could’t,’ Model stated.
Kennedy and Model’s groups have been contacted for remark.
