RFK Jr says dog is one of three things he’d never eat as he lashes out at Vanity Fair claims
Robert Kennedy Jr. has vehemently denied ever eating dog, saying he ate “pretty much everything” except three things.
The 70-year-old independent presidential candidate criticized a Vanity Fair article claiming he had eaten a dog in South Korea as “a dumping ground of misinformation.”
Speak about News NationOn Tuesday night, Kennedy told CUOMO, βI’m a very adventurous eater… I’ll eat pretty much anything.
‘There are three things I wouldn’t eat: I wouldn’t eat a human, I wouldn’t eat a monkey, and I wouldn’t eat a dog.
“I think I would eat anything else, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. So it’s a goat and you are what you eat.”
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair published an in-depth dive into Kennedy’s long history of “reckless” behavior β detailing his drug use and allegations of sexual abuse. The story claimed to include an image purported to show Kennedy holding the charred remains of a dog
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair published an in-depth analysis of Kennedy’s long history of “reckless” behavior, highlighting his drug use and allegations of sexual abuse.
The story allegedly featured an image showing Kennedy holding the charred remains of a dog.
VF said Kennedy sent the photo to a friend last year, who suggested he try a restaurant in South Korea that served dog food.
According to the magazine, a veterinarian identified the animal as a dog because it had a distinctive “floating rib” that is also found in canines.
Metadata from the photo shows it was taken in 2010, the same year Kennedy contracted brain worm.
On Tuesday afternoon, RFK Jr. posted a message on X stating that the gray animal was not a dog, but a goat, and that the photo came not from Korea, but from Patagonia.
He gave the same explanation during an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday afternoon.
βHey @VanityFair, remember when you veterinary experts call a goat a dog, and your forensic experts say a photo taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, you join the ranks of the supermarket tabloids,β Kennedy wrote.
RFK Jr. said, ‘There are three things I wouldn’t eat – I wouldn’t eat a man, I wouldn’t eat a monkey, and I wouldn’t eat a dog.’
“Keep telling America that up is down if you want. I keep talking about how working families can’t afford homes or groceries because our last two presidents have gone on a $14 trillion debt joyride paid for by hardworking Americans,” the independent continued.
The Vanity Fair story further suggests that Kennedy may have been infected with the “dog” brain worm in 2010.
The candidate has stated that he believes he contracted the tapeworm through food he ate, but it is unclear where he ate it.
The VF story also included allegations that RFK Jr. had sexually abused a former family nanny, Eliza Cooney.
Cooney reportedly told the magazine that Kennedy had groped her in the family kitchen.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention on May 24
Kennedy has since said the article contained “a bunch of nonsense,” but when asked by a podcast interviewer whether he denied the allegations of sexual abuse, he said, “I’m not going to comment on it.”
Kennedy said on the Breaking Points podcast on Tuesday: βI’m not a church boy.
“I had a very, very turbulent childhood,” he told podcaster Saagar Enjeti. “I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they all voted, I would run for king of the world.”
He also said the magazine was “recycling stories that are 30 years old,” insisting, “I’m not going to give details, but it’s β you know, I am who I am.”