RFK Jr. raises $3 MILLION in three days: Democratic hopeful piles the pressure on Biden
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled in a whopping $3 million dollars in just three days at the end of June, his presidential campaign claimed.
Aides to assassinated President JFK’s nephew said the Democratic nominee raised the money between June 28 and June 30 before a key financial filing deadline.
They said the one-time environmental advocate has convinced donors to raise just over $6 million since launching his primary challenge to Joe Biden in April.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has faced criticism for his anti-vaxx views, officially challenges President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination
Campaign leader of RFK Dennis Kucinich: ‘Mr. Kennedy is catching on because the public has had enough of media slander. People respond to the attacks by opening their wallets.’
All White House hopefuls are required by law to tell U.S. election authorities how they fund their presidential bids.
The cash withdrawal, if confirmed by the Federal Election Commission, could raise new concerns for the Biden campaign.
The New York Times reported Monday that a political action committee backing Kennedy also raised $10.25 million.
The leftist newspaper also said the nonprofit organization American Values 2024 receives donations from both Republicans and Democrats.
The RFK hopeful, who stepped down from his presidential bid on April 19, has received double digits in some recent polls of Democratic voters.
But party apparatchiks are known for being keen to prevent the current commander-in-chief from facing a first real challenge.
His policies include ending the forever wars, cleaning up the government and restoring the American middle class.
So far, only self-help author Marianne Williamson has also stated her intention to oppose Biden.
While RFK still trails Biden in the polls, the 80-year-old has many concerns from Democrats about his age and physical and mental stamina.
Concerns have been raised about Joe Biden’s fitness for office after the 80-year-old made a series of high-profile blunders
The Kennedy scion has also faced controversy himself, with his own family publicly denouncing him for his baseless claims about vaccine safety.
The 69-year-old has been vocal for years in his criticism of the COVID-19 vaccine and others – some of which he has linked to children developing autism.
One of his other beliefs challenged in the interview is that AIDS patients can only get the disease after first contracting HIV, and that 5G and Wi-Fi can be dangerous.
Social media campaigns by the environmental advocate’s former anti-vaccine platform, Children’s Health Defense, were taken down by Instagram and Facebook last year.
Kennedy’s personal account had already been deleted in 2021 as part of a crackdown by parent company Meta against what it called “false and misleading” information about Covid.
His sister Kerry Kennedy, who heads Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the international rights group founded by their mother, Ethel, said her brother has sometimes removed some of the content at her request.
She told the Associated Press in a 2021 interview that her brother is “completely wrong on this matter and very dangerous.”
His anti-vaccine charity has thrived, with revenues more than doubling to $6.8 million in 2020, according to filings with charity regulators
RFK Jr. has also repeatedly accused the CIA of playing a role in the assassinations of his uncle, JFK, and father, Bobby Kennedy.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. is the son of Robert F. Kennedy (left), the late Attorney General and U.S. Senator who was assassinated in 1968 during a presidential run. He is the cousin of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963
He launched his campaign on April 19 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston with his wife Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm actress.
He also recently suggested that school shootings had increased because more youths were taking antidepressants like Prozac.
His presidential run could also put a scrutiny on his colorful personal life
The father of six married his third wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines, in 2014.
He filed for divorce in 2012 from his second wife Mary, the mother of four of his children: Conor, Finny, Kyra and Aidan.
Four days later, she would be hanged at home in Mount Kisco, New York, allegedly convinced her ex-husband was having an affair.
Kennedy allegedly proposed to Mary while still married to his first wife, Emily Black, whom he separated in 1992 and divorced two years later.
In 2013, the New York Post managed to obtain a leaked copy of one of Kennedy’s 2001 diaries detailing his battle with his “lust demons.”
The squalid 398-page diary, detailing his day-to-day political activities, also included a scorecard of more than two dozen sexual conquests collected behind his second wife’s back.
They contained the names of the women, but had numbers from 1 to 10 next to each item.
The codes corresponded to sexual acts, with 10 meaning full sexual intercourse.
Hines was introduced to RFK Jr in 2012 by Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Larry David
In the entries, Kennedy repeatedly portrays himself as a victim hopelessly seduced by a series of women.
“I narrowly escaped being robbed by a double team of [two women]. It was tempting, but I prayed and God gave me the strength to say no,” he wrote on February 6 of that year.
On May 21, he writes about hosting a dinner party for Leonardo DiCaprio, bringing the actor to town.
He then met someone else in Manhattan, who claimed he was “robbed on his way home” and recorded a 10 with a woman’s name next to it.
“I have to do better,” he wrote at the time.
In another message, Kennedy promises to “avoid the company of women.” You don’t have the strength to resist their charms’ and to be ‘humble like a monk’. Keep your hands to yourself. Turn your eyes away.’
The Kennedy scion began dating actress Hines in 2011 amid a bitter argument with his estranged wife Mary over custody and finances that ended when she tragically committed suicide.