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Wed Jan 29, 2025, 02:56 PM 18 hrs ago

Caroline Kennedy warns of predator

January 29, 2025 at 12:02 a.m. EST
By Jacqueline Alemany, Dan Diamond and Liz Goodwin

Caroline Kennedy warned senators Tuesday about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling her cousin — now President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — a “predator” whose victims have included family members and the parents of sick children.

In a letter obtained by The Washington Post and sent to lawmakers ahead of Kennedy’s confirmation hearings, the former ambassador to Australia and Japan alleges that her cousin, “addicted to attention and power,” has given hypocritical advice by discouraging parents from vaccinating their children while vaccinating his own children. She alleged that his “crusade against vaccination” has also served to enrich him.

“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together,” Caroline Kennedy wrote. “It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator” ...

“His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/kennedy-lettor-rfk/

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