Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a video of him doing push-ups outside the legendary Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach – calling for a debate with Joe Biden.
The video was captioned, “Getting in shape for my debates with President Biden!”
His tweet comes as other videos surfaced of the 69-year-old lifting weights at the same gym, which has been dubbed “the mecca of bodybuilding.”
RFK Jr has long said he wants to debate Biden, but the White House has largely ignored those calls — a recent poll indicated that the majority of Democrats wanted to see a debate.
“So everyone start your morning exercises. Get yourself ready for a Kennedy presidency!’ he wrote in another tweet, also addressing the fact that he only did nine pushups.
And yes, I can do more than 10 pushups. That was my last set,’ he said.
It comes after CNN anchor Jack Tapper published a column accusing him of telling a “wild and false” story about an interaction they had in 2005.
The Attack on Kennedy Jr. comes after a remarkable video has surfaced of the 69-year-old Democratic presidential candidate lifting weights at Venice Beach’s legendary Gold’s Gym, dubbed “the Mecca of bodybuilding”
Tapper’s account states that he did not work with Kennedy, only interviewing him by phone for an ABC TV segment. He is pictured in May 2019
Kennedy’s disputed comments were made during an appearance on a podcast hosted by Jordan Peterson on June 5 and were part of an attack on how the media is reporting Big Pharma.
RFK Jr. said he spent three weeks working with Tapper, who was at ABC News at the time, on a vaccine critical documentary that was suddenly dropped.
Tapper’s account states that he did not work with Kennedy, only interviewing him by phone for an ABC News segment, which was not dropped.
RFK Jr. has made so many false and wild claims on a number of vital subjects,’ Tapper noted in the columnpublished on June 22, before claiming that he is “not bound by the facts.”
Tapper gave a rather lengthy account in the column, beginning to explain that their interaction stemmed from Kennedy co-publishing a piece in 2005 with Rolling Stone magazine and Salon.com.
In it, he claimed there was a link between certain vaccines containing mercury and autism – both publications have since retracted it due to factual inaccuracies.
A photo accompanies the video showing RFK Jr. shirtless and well built
Tapper gave a rather lengthy account in the column, beginning to explain that their interaction stemmed from Kennedy co-publishing a piece in 2005 with Rolling Stone magazine and Salon.com.
Even a majority of Democrats want President Joe Biden to debate his top poll rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In the Jordan Peterson podcast, which has been removed from YouTube but is still on Twitter, RFK Jr. that he spent “three weeks making this incredible documentary” with Tapper.
He then said that Tapper informed him over the phone that the “documentary” would be killed by “corporate” – something that had never happened before.
RFK Jr. has been misrepresenting the content of this call for years,” Tapper wrote.
Tapper suggested in his CNN column that he would never have used that word and that several of his stories would have been cut before.
He said that while the plug was not pulled, he postponed the segment for a day to interview other experts, and it finally aired on June 22, 2005.
Now, in his retelling, a two-minute piece was an ‘incredible documentary’, a few days’ work was three weeks, a remote interview was me working closely with him, and a piece that was postponed one day so that we could interview a few. real experts is a piece that has been killed,” Tapper wrote.
Tapper also appeared on a podcast last week, Pod Save America, in which he threw similar rants about Kennedy.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper is pictured with his wife Jennifer Marie Brown at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 2018
‘[Kennedy] is spreading dangerous misinformation about childhood vaccines,” he said, before saying he would not host Kennedy in front of a town hall on CNN.
“He was so dishonest in that experience and he has been lying about the experience ever since,” he said.
Tapper also quoted from his own segment to reflect how he had treated Kennedy’s article.
Tapper claims he said of his segment, “The medical community overwhelmingly disagrees with Kennedy, who is neither a scientist nor a physician. They point out that autism rates are not decreasing, even though thimerosal has been removed from most childhood vaccines as a precaution.’
He wrote at the end of his column that “we did the fact-checking for our piece that RFK Jr. himself,” before adding, “And he remains someone you cannot rely on for facts, truth, or accuracy.”