Robert Kennedy Jr has strongly denied that he as soon as ate a canine, as he revealed that he would eat ‘just about something’ besides three issues.
The unbiased candidate for president, 70, slammed a Vainness Honest article that claimed he ate a canine in South Korea as ‘a dumpster of misinformation.’
Talking on Information Nation’s CUOMO Tuesday evening, Kennedy mentioned: ‘I’m a really adventurous eater… I am going to eat just about something.
‘There’s three issues I would not eat – I would not eat a human, I would not eat a monkey, and I would not eat a canine.
‘I believe I would eat anything, however I simply could not carry myself to do these issues, so it’s a goat and you’re what you eat. ‘
On Tuesday Vainness Honest printed a deep dive into Kennedy’s lengthy historical past of ‘reckless’ habits – chronicling his drug use and allegations of sexual assault. The story claimed included a picture that supposedly reveals Kennedy holding the charred stays of a canine
On Tuesday Vainness Honest printed a deep dive into Kennedy’s lengthy historical past of ‘reckless’ habits – chronicling his drug use and allegations of sexual assault.
The story claimed included a picture that supposedly reveals Kennedy holding the charred stays of a canine.
VF mentioned Kennedy had despatched out the picture in query to a good friend final 12 months – recommending his pal strive a restaurant in South Korea that serves canine meat.
The journal mentioned a veterinarian recognized the animal as a canine, because the animal had a telltale ‘floating rib’ present in canines.
Metadata from the {photograph} confirmed it was taken in 2010 – the identical 12 months that Kennedy contracted a mind worm.
On Tuesday afternoon, RFK Jr. posted to X saying that the grizzled animal wasn’t a canine however a goat and the {photograph} wasn’t from Korea however Patagonia.
He gave the identical clarification throughout a Tuesday afternoon look on Fox Information.
‘Hey @VanityFair, when your veterinary consultants name a goat a canine, and your forensic consultants say a photograph taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, that you have joined the ranks of grocery store tabloids,’ Kennedy wrote.
RFK Jr mentioned: ‘There’s three issues I would not eat – I would not eat a human, I would not eat a monkey, and I would not eat a canine’
‘Maintain telling America that up is down if you need. I am going to hold speaking about the truth that working households cannot afford homes or groceries as a result of our final two presidents went on a $14 trillion debt joyride, paid for by hard-working People,’ the unbiased continued.
Vainness Honest’s story goes on to counsel that Kennedy might have contracted the mind worm in 2010 from the ‘canine.’
The candidate has mentioned that he believed he contracted the tapeworm from meals he ate – although it is unclear the place he had that meal.
The VF story additionally included claims that RFK Jr sexually assaulted a former household babysitter, Eliza Cooney.
Cooney reportedly advised the journal that Kennedy groped her within the household kitchen.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks on the Libertarian Nationwide Conference on Could 24
Kennedy has since mentioned the article incorporates ‘lots of rubbish’, however when pressed by a podcast interviewer whether or not he denied the sexual assault allegation, he mentioned: ‘I am not going to touch upon it.’
Kennedy advised the Breaking Factors podcast on Tuesday, ‘I’m not a church boy.
‘I had a really, very rambunctious youth,’ he advised podcaster Saagar Enjeti. ‘I mentioned in my announcement speech that I’ve so many skeletons in my closet that if they might all vote, I might run for king of the world.’
He moreover mentioned the journal was ‘recycling 30-year-old tales,’ and insisted: ‘I am not going to touch upon the small print of any of them, nevertheless it’s — , I’m who I’m.’
