Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to former President Trump’s allegations he’s a “Democrat plant” and could be a “wasted protest vote,” difficult the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to a debate.
“When frightened men take to social media they risk descending into vitriol, which makes them sound unhinged,” Kennedy wrote in an X submit on Saturday afternoon. “President Trump’s rant against me is a barely coherent barrage of wild and inaccurate claims that should best be resolved in the American tradition of presidential debate. President Trump, who has proven himself the most adept debater in modern American political history, should not be panicked to meet me on that stage.”
RFK Jr. mentioned he’ll show Trump “betrayed the hopes of his most sincere followers,” arguing the previous president “promised to end the Ukraine war and then colluded with Speaker Johnson and President Biden to fund it.” Kennedy Jr. additionally mentioned Trump “let Big Pharma and his corrupt bureaucrats run roughshod over him as President,” and “promised to cut the deficit and ran up the biggest debt in history.”
“He promised to run the government like a business and then closed down our businesses. He promised to drain the swamp and then filled his administration with swamp creatures,” RFK Jr. mentioned. “He promised to protect our rights and then torpedoed the Constitution.”
TRUMP ACCUSES RFK JR. OF BEING A ‘DEMOCRAT PLANT’ AND ‘WASTED PROTEST VOTE’
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and Donald Trump are working for president. (Getty Images)
“Instead of lobbing poisonous bombs from the safety of his bunker, let’s hear President Trump defend his record to me mano-a-mano by respectful, congenial debate,” Kennedy concluded.
Trump’s 2020 marketing campaign notably known as out Biden’s “bunker” technique, condemning how the Democrat largely stayed away from the marketing campaign path and ducked the general public eye whereas working for president.
Kennedy’s problem got here after Trump blasted the impartial presidential candidate on TRUTH Social.
“RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected,” Trump wrote in a collection of posts earlier Saturday. “A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him.”
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hugs Nicole Shanahan as she turns into his vice presidential working mate in Oakland, California, March 26, 2024. (Reuters)
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Trump charged that RFK Jr. “is totally Anti-Gun, an Extreme Environmentalist who makes the Green New Scammers look Conservative, a Big Time Taxer and Open Border Advocate, and Anti-Military/Vet.”
“His Radicalized Family will never allow him to be a Republican, and his Chief ‘Funder’ is the V.P. Candidate that nobody ever heard of, except her ex-husband, who’s been stripped of a big chunk of cash,” Trump continued, taking a swipe at Kennedy’s working mate, Nicole Shanahan.
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Former President Donald Trump exits Trump Tower in New York City, Monday, April 15, 2024. Jury choice started within the so-called hush cash trial in Manhattan Criminal Court. (Probe-Media for Fox News Digital)
Trump mentioned that whereas residing in New York concurrently Kennedy, he watched the previous Democrat persuade former Gov. Andrew Cuomo “to make environmental moves that were outright NASTY,” noting that upstate New York “was not allowed to drill or frack as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and others ripped off New York Energy,” inflicting vitality prices in upstate New York and New England to skyrocket.
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“His Views on Vaccines are FAKE, as is everything else about his Candidacy. Let the Democrats have RFK Jr. They deserve him!” Trump mentioned.