Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched his campaign for President of the United States in April 2023 as a Democrat, like both his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and his father. Shunned by President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), he opted to quit (in October) the Democratic Party and campaign as an Independent. Then last week he gave a speech to the media titled “RFK Jr. Address to the Nation: Full Disclosure,” where he announced his decision to stop his campaign and support Donald Trump in his campaign for a second term as President of the United States.
In his moving 6,150-word address, RFK Jr. explains why he left the Democratic Party:
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“I left that Party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the Party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money.”
He laments the fact that “democracy… has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government, and most sadly at all, for me, for the Democratic Party.” He says:
“My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent in a battle of ideas. They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who, like Vice President Harris, has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to judge when they don’t know whom they are choosing? And how can this look to the rest of the world?”
RFK Jr. considers the DNC’s pick of Vice President Kamala Harris a poor choice to succeed an enfeebled Joe Biden. He views her as an especially poor role model for advancing democratic processes and being the leader of the free world, saying:
“The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Kamala Harris based on nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly-produced circus… [And] there in Chicago a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day. Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate? In contrast, at the RNC convention, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.”
In the speech, Robert Kennedy tells us that three great causes drove him to enter the presidential race, which then persuaded him to leave the Democratic Party and run as an Independent, and finally to switch his support to President Trump! They are: 1) free speech; 2) the war in Ukraine; and 3) the war on our children.
Free speech in America is being greatly threatened by the “government’s censorship industrial complex,” as RFK Jr. puts it. For the representatives of the media networks attending his speech, he tells them:
“Your institutions and media made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power.”
Robert Kennedy and Donald Trump view the war in Ukraine the same way: They see, as RFK Jr. puts it that: “Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the US neocons for American global hegemony.” And furthermore:
“The reckless neocon project of extending NATO to encircle Russia is a hostile act. The credulous media rarely explain to Americans that we unilaterally walked away from two intermediate nuclear weapons treaties with Russia and then put nuclear missile systems in Romania and Poland.”
He also points out that President Biden has stated that “his objective in the war was regime change in Russia.” Instead, “our moral authority and our economy are in shambles, and the war gave rise to the emergence of BRICS, which now threatens to replace the dollar as a global reserve currency.”
RFK Jr. makes this telling point:
Last summer, it looked like no candidate was willing [1] to negotiate a quick end to the Ukraine war, [2] to tackle the chronic disease epidemic, [3] to protect free speech and our constitutional freedoms, [4] clean corporate influence out of our government, or [5] defy the neocons and their agenda of endless military adventurism. But now one of the two candidates [Harris and Trump] has adopted these issues as his own, to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration. I’m speaking, of course, of Donald Trump.
He is not overstating the problem when he says that America’s chronic disease epidemic has become far worse than most Americans realize, as these facts show:
→ The U.S. is 79th in health outcomes, behind even Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mongolia.
→ Two-thirds of American adults and children now suffer from chronic health issues, whereas 50 years ago that number was less than1 percent.
→Now 74 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, including 50 percent of our children.
→Half of Americans have prediabetes or type two diabetes, and pediatricians find that now 1/3rd of children they see are diabetic or prediabetic.
→The CDC says that autism rates in children is now 1 in 36 (it is 1 in 22 in California!),
whereas the autism rate 70 years ago was 1 in 10,000!
→Now 18 percent of American teens have fatty liver disease, which used to affect only late-stage alcoholics.
→Cancer rates are skyrocketing in both the young and old.
RFK Jr. cites these findings to show how bad America’s chronic disease epidemic has become, findings that Casey Means, M.D. and her brother Colley Means corroborate in their bestselling book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health (2024). This book, written by two widely respected food safety advocates and published May 13, 2024, is a best seller. And it turns out that both Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy had each independently sought advice from Collen Means for dealing with America’s chronic disease epidemic before Kennedy and Trump considered forming a political partnership.
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So what is causing such widespread suffering? RFK Jr. names two culprits: ultra-processed foods and toxic chemicals in our food, medicines, and the environment, which include Pesticides; food additives; pharmaceutical drugs, like Ozempic–for obesity and costs $1,500 a month, and toxic waste. Speaking for both Donald Trump and him, Kennedy says:
“We’re going to bring healthy food back to school lunches. We’re going to stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies. We’re going to get toxic chemicals out of our food. We’re going to reform the entire food system. And for that, we need new leadership in Washington. Because unfortunately, both the Democrats and the Republican parties are in cahoots with the big food producers, Big Pharma and Big AG, which are among the DNC’s major donors.”
RJK Jr. has announced that he will be on the campaign trail helping Donald Trump get reelected for a second term as President of the United States.
Notes:
A transcript of this speech by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “RFK Jr. Address to the Nation: Full Disclosure,” given on August 23, 2024, in Phoenix, AZ, is available Here.
A 12-minute Video of RFK Jr. voicing his support for Donald Trump, given at a Trump rally later that day in Glendale, AZ, is available Here.
My article, “Trump: Our Only Hope for Escaping World War III,” published March 9, 2016, on LewRockwell.com, is available Here.
My article, “Facing Nuclear War,” published April 6, 2024, on LewRockwell.com, is available Here.
