“RFK” means something very different to Donald Trump’s backers.
Make America Nice Once more Inc., a pro-Trump tremendous PAC, launched a website Monday dubbing the scion of America’s most well-known political household “Radical F—ing Kennedy”, The Publish has realized.
The web site is probably the most aggressive attack on the independent presidential candidate yet from Trump’s side, and comes as Kennedy has confused he’s courting supporters of each Trump and President Biden with the intent of being a “spoiler” for each main candidates.
The web site lists out all of the “radical liberal” concepts the 70-year-old has supported, together with gun confiscation, reparations to African-Americans, a 70% revenue tax and the Inexperienced New Deal.
The location options Kennedy retweeting a January 2019 Vox.com article entitled “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70[%] high tax charge — right here’s the analysis that backs her up.”
That hyperlink is adopted by a tweet from Kennedy calling the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation a “terror group,” and an article quoting him as saying he would signal an “assault weapons ban.”
“Parkland college students are proper; the NRA is a terror group,” RFK Jr. tweeted in 2018 within the aftermath of the Florida college taking pictures.
The location then hyperlinks to cases Kennedy has supported the Inexperienced New Deal and stated he would ban fracking, adopted by a hyperlink to him claiming hog farmers had been extra harmful to the US than Osama Bin Laden — an announcement he made mere months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults.
Kennedy made the hog farmer assault in April of 2002, in line with an archived edition of the Des Moines Register cited by the Day by day Caller, again when he was president of the Waterkeeper Alliance.
The web site additionally lists the instances Kennedy has stated he’s shut with unbiased Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan — and one occasion when he got here out as opposing voter ID legal guidelines.
“There‘s lots of People who don‘t have driver‘s license,” Kennedy told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in 2008. “One in 10 People of voter age do not need driver‘s license. Who’re they? They’re senior residents. They’re younger folks. They’re individuals who dwell in cities and so they‘re black folks. In different phrases, Democratic voters. One in 5 Democratic—one in 5 black voters doesn’t have a driver‘s license. Meaning in case you require a driver‘s license, you‘re eliminating 20% of the black voters on this nation.”
RFK Jr.’s file on reparations can also be highlighted.
“Throughout Jim Crow, Black banks, companies, hospitals, colleges, and farms had been focused for destruction. Racists knew that with out these, the Black neighborhood had no likelihood of constructing wealth. We should set federal {dollars} apart to rebuild Black infrastructure,” Kennedy’s marketing campaign web site learn in October.
“These applications complement direct redress funds or tax credit to the descendants of the victims of Jim Crow and different victims of persecution,” the pledge continued. “RFK Jr. will discover methods to supply this redress which might be authorized, truthful, and win the approval of People of all races.”
The marketing campaign took down their stance on reparations after The Publish reported on the platform in October, and the Kennedy 2024 web site now reads: “Focused Neighborhood Restore might be out there to devastated communities throughout the nation, not simply Black.”
“The factors might be round want, not pores and skin shade. Nonetheless, as a result of there are such a lot of Black communities in want, this program will channel vital sources towards the rebuilding of those most devastated of communities.”
Trump has lately stepped up his assaults on RFK Jr. as being “radical,” however has additionally told liberals to vote for the independent over President Biden as polls present him near the incumbent Democrat.
“RFK Jr. is, as you realize, probably the most radical left candidate within the race. He’s extra so than the Inexperienced Social gathering. He’s extra so than even crooked Joe Biden. However he’s obtained some good issues about him. I occur to love him,” Trump stated in a video posted on Reality Social on Thursday.
“RFK is a radical liberal. He loves the Inexperienced New Deal, excessive taxes, and hates voter ID,” stated Alex Pfeiffer, spokesman for Make America Nice Once more Inc.
Kennedy has stayed away from bashing Trump and has as a substitute criticized the two-party system, insisting he goals to take votes away from each Biden and Trump.
“Mr. Kennedy is so liberal that President Trump requested him to be his VP,” Kennedy’s spokesperson Stefanie Spear instructed The Publish.
The veep courting has induced strife between the Trump and Kennedy campaigns up to now, with the unbiased ruling out the VP place and high Trump adviser Chris LaCivita claiming the dialog by no means occurred.
