Robert Kennedy Jr. has said he will “take no sides” on the “truth” about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The 70-year-old independent presidential candidate told X on Friday that it is difficult to determine whether there is a conspiracy theory because of the government’s “lies.” He added that he will push for transparency on the issue if he is elected in November.
Kennedy wrote: ‘My view on 9/11: It is hard to say what is a conspiracy theory and what is not. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public.
“As president, I will not take sides in 9/11 or other debates. But I can promise to open the files and usher in a new era of transparency.”
Kennedy added that he was referring to a 60 Minutes segment that discussed Saudi Arabia’s possible involvement in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Robert Kennedy Jr. has said he will ‘take no sides’ on the ‘truth’ about the September 11 terrorist attacks
The CBS segment questioned the federal government’s conclusion that only al-Qaeda was involved in the attacks.
For decades, the families of the victims have been calling for further investigation into Saudi involvement, which the Saudi government has consistently denied.
The popular conspiracy theory that the US government covered up Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11 is just one of the unproven claims that Kennedy, a notorious vaccine skeptic, has been making for years.
Last September, he said he “didn’t know what happened on 9/11” and repeated the unproven claim that one of the World Tarde Center towers “was not hit by a plane” but collapsed for some unknown reason.
Many conspiracy theorists claim the second tower collapsed due to explosives, but experts say debris from the other tower contributed to the collapse
Many conspiracy theorists claim that the second tower collapsed due to explosives, but experts say debris from the other tower contributed to the collapse.
Still, Kennedy said last year, “I know there were some strange things that happened. … One of the buildings collapsed, but it wasn’t hit by a plane.”
It’s been a tumultuous week for Kennedy, who just days ago denied ever eating a dog after Vanity Fair published an explosive revelation about his past.
Kennedy criticized a Vanity Fair article claiming he had eaten a dog in South Korea as “a garbage dump of misinformation.”
Speak about NewsNationOn Tuesday night, Kennedy told CUOMO, “I’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 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.
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair published an in-depth dive into Kennedy’s long history of “reckless” behavior — 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
F said that Kennedy had sent the photo in question to a friend last year. He had advised him to go to a restaurant in South Korea where they 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.
“Hey @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,” Kennedy wrote.
“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.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention on May 24
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.
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: “I’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 — you know, I am who I am.”