HELL MATCH: Did Trump really offer Robert Kennedy Jr. a VP slot?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., running as an independent candidate for president, says that he was invited to be the running mate for Donald Trump, as he slams the former president in a new statement.
Trump’s team has denied that this ever happened.
The truth could be anywhere between the two claims, but Kennedy is currently making the claim as part of an attack on both Trump and President Joe Biden, as he implies that he’s the candidate Trump is really worried about.
Kennedy has been defensive of Trump at times, but he’s also attacked Trump, claiming that the former and current president are actually a lot alike on issues such as the national debt. (In reality, while almost every president has increased the national debt, Trump did so by more than almost 4 times the percentage Biden has, according to Investopedia.)
On Monday morning, as Trump sat in court unable to respond, Kennedy lashed out. He tweeted:
“President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I’m soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP. I respectfully declined the offer.”
Kennedy further declared that Biden “can’t win,” and said that Trump’s website shows who he’s afraid of.
Currently, Trump’s campaign site redirects to pleas for cash and complaints about being in court, and even after dodging around that, none of the main tabs shows any focus on Kennedy, so it’s not clear what the Independent candidate means, unless he meant to refer to TruthSocial, Trump’s media site.
If so, it’s true that Trump has mentioned him a few times lately, including the claim that he’s “far-left,” but he’s devoted a fraction of the attention to Kennedy that he has to the current president, who he accuses of masterminding all his legal troubles.
Back in January, Trump’s senior campaign advisor denied that the team had approached Kennedy, according to NewsNation.
Kennedy is not responding to questions about who, exactly, the “emissaries” were that approached him.
It was recently exposed that at least some of his own campaign staff hopes to employ him as a ‘spoiler’ who can pull votes away from Biden so that Trump has a better chance of success in 2024.
Kennedy’s full statement can be seen below.
President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I’m soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP. I respectfully declined the offer.
I am against President Trump, and President Biden can’t win.
Judging by his new website, it looks like President Trump knows who…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 15, 2024
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