EXCLUSIVE – RFK Jr. says his storied family still ‘loves each other’ – despite many NOT backing his 2024 run and JFK’s grandson calling him an ’embarrassment’: Admits ‘a lot’ of relatives ‘disagree’ with him
RFK Jr. insists members of his legendary family have the “right” to disagree with his 2024 presidential nomination and his controversial views — after JFK’s grandson called him “an embarrassment.”
The 69-year-old Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential race told DailyMail.com that he had grown up arguing with his relatives — and no matter what, they still “loved” each other.
His presidency in the White House and his stances on vaccines and COVID have been highly controversial and sparked outrage in his family.
Some in his famous family have even publicly criticized his comments that COVID-19 was not intended to “affect Jewish or Chinese people.”
When DailyMail.com asked in an exclusive interview Monday if he keeps in touch with his extended family despite their criticism, RFK Jr. replied. ‘Naturally’.
“I mean, my family grew up arguing with each other,” added RFK Jr., one of 11 children in his immediate family.
RFK Jr. said that during the July 4 weekend, “107 members” of his family gathered.
“A lot of them support me and a lot of them disagree with me,” he continued.
President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, posted a video to Instagram of his nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid. hammered and supported President Joe Biden
Kennedy family 4th of July photo from 2023. RFK Jr. said 107 members of his family gathered this year
And they are entitled to that. We can disagree and still love each other. And that’s how we were brought up.’
“So that doesn’t bother me at all,” he told DailyMail.com.
RFK was reportedly unable to attend the big family reunion himself due to his continued campaigning.
Jack Schlossberg, the 30-year-old grandson of former President JFK, recently made headlines for publicly criticizing his cousin’s decision to run against Biden in the Democratic primary.
Schlossberg said Biden was on track to become the “greatest progressive president in the country we’ve ever had,” saying that if his cousin cared about his family’s legacy, he would support the current resident of the Oval Office.
“Instead, he trades on Camelot, celebrities, conspiracy theories and conflicts for personal gain and fame,” Caroline Kennedy’s lawyer and son said.
‘I listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why anyone thinks they should be president. What I do know is that his candidacy is a disgrace.’
RFK plunged into new depths of conspiracy theories last month when he claimed that Covid-19 was “ethnic” and that “the people most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
The 2024 hopeful defended himself while testifying before the House Select Committee on “armaments” in late July.
He told the committee that he “never uttered a sentence that was racist or anti-Semitic” and was not an anti-vaxxer.
“I’m subject to this new form of censorship called targeted propaganda, where people use pejoratives like ‘anti-vax.’ I have never been against vaccines,” he said.
Schlossberg’s mother Caroline, JFK’s only surviving child, supports Biden. She is currently the US Ambassador to Australia.
Former Representatives Joe Kennedy III and Patrick Kennedy have also supported Biden, as has Victoria Kennedy, the widow of the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
The family is no stranger to controversy and internal conflict.
RFK’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in November 1963.
His father Bobby Kennedy was shot in 1968 while making his own presidential bid.
Both were involved in alleged extramarital affairs and other political controversies.
The 2024 candidate also reflected Monday on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.
RFK told DailyMail.com he was proud of his father and uncle’s pivotal role in organizing the march.
The Kennedy family’s criticism of the RFK Jr. primary campaign to Joe Biden doesn’t bother him: ‘We were raised fighting,’ but ‘still love each other,’ says presidential hopeful
President John F. Kennedy visits his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
President JFK listens to his cousin Bobby Kennedy Jr. – known as RFK Jr.
Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a hearing with the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Capitol Hill
“My father played a major role in the organization and worked with Martin Luther King to organize that march—my father and my uncle,” he said.
“Yesterday we had three African-American Americans murdered by a white supremacist in Jacksonville.”
“So it reminds us that we still have a long way to go,” he continued.
A shooting at a Florida Dollar General store in Northwest Jacksonville that killed three black people was “racially motivated,” officials said.
The incident, in which the white shooter also died Saturday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, is being investigated by the FBI and local authorities as a hate crime.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the suspected shooter, in his 20s, used an assault rifle covered in Nazi swastikas.