Known as the nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has officially filed the paperwork this past Wednesday to start a bid for the 2024 presidential office.
With this filing to the Federal Election Commission, which CNN claimed to be fully confirmed by John E. Sullivan, Kennedy’s campaign treasurer, the 69-year-old is seeking office under the Democrat nomination.
Kennedy is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, a former U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator that ended up being assassinated back in 1968 as he attempted to run for president. On social media this past month, he teased a possible 2024 campaign, calling on people to pay a visit to his website and donate.
“If it looks like I can raise the money and mobilize enough people to win, I’ll jump in the race. If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt,” stated Kennedy at that time.
Kennedy ended up garnering a reputation for himself as an environmental lawyer and a best-selling author, but in the most recent years has found himself a new label for his stance against vaccines.
He founded a nonprofit group called the Children’s Health Defense, which on its website explains its overall vision for a “world free of childhood chronic health conditions caused by environmental exposures.”
Throughout the pandemic, Kennedy offered up numerous concerns regarding COVID vaccines, including his suspicions that the death of baseball star Hank Aaron could have been tied directly to his doses of the vaccine. A medical examiner found that Aaron died fur to natural causes at the age of 86.
Such skepticism by Kennedy and his camp has led to numerous bans across a number of social media platforms and backlash.
Kennedy ended up making headlines a few years ago due to his statements at an anti-vaccine rally in which he accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, of setting up “fascism.” Kennedy would late go on to apologize for making references to Anne Frank and the Holocaust at the same event and actress Cheryl Hines, his wife, labeled the statements as “reprehensible and insensitive.”
As a new candidate, Kennedy steps up next to self-help author Marianne Williamson as a formal entrant to the Democratic primary field. Old Uncle Joe has stated that he wants to seek another term, but has not taken any action to announce or do so.
