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Must Watch: RFK Exposes DNC Corruption, Suspends Campaign, Backs Trump In Battleground States
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Aug 23, 2024 - 03:05 PM
The 2024 presidential election race is about to take its next unexpected turn...
“Democrats have become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big ag, and big money wanting to abandon democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president.
I left the party to run as an independent...
The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for VP Harris based upon nothing. No policies, no interviews, no debates. Only smoke and mirrors.”
"A Chicago circus that is based on NOTHING. Who needs a policy if you hate Donald Trump?"
...
"I am simply suspending it and not ending it. My name will remain on the ballot in most states.
I encourage you to vote for me.
In an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election.
After all, the polls consistently showed me beating each of the other candidates.
In about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I'm going to remove my name."
article updated with:
I throw my support behind Donald Trump."
Kennedy said that in a series of meetings with Trump and his team, he realized he shared more in common with the former president than he thought. He compared their potential partnership to President Lincoln's famous "Team of Rivals," which saw him stock his Cabinet with former foes.
"In a series of long, intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues. In those meetings, he suggested that we join forces as a unity party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals. That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and fiercely if need be on issues over which we differ while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance."
"I was a ferocious critic of many of the policies during his first administration, and there are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences."
"But we are aligned with each other on other key issues like ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans and interfering with our elections."
"Suspending my candidacy is a heartrending decision for me. But I'm convinced that it's the best hope or ending the Ukraine War and ending the chronic disease epidemic that is eroding our nation's vitality from the inside and for finally protecting free speech."
"I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children above all things."
Most notably, RFK Jr. admitted in front of the nation that he attempted to contact VP Harris first and that she neither wanted to talk or meet with him is a strong message to Independent voters:
"Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris declined to meet or even to speak with me."
"Democrats want nothing to do with you, Republicans will at least give you a seat at the table."
RFK addressed details on the Russia-Ukraine war (via Kyle Backer):
"We have pushed Russia closer to China and Iran. We are closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than at any time since 1962. And the Neocons in the White House don't seem to care at all."
"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 the global reserve currency."
"This is a first class calamity for our country."
"Judging by her bellicose, belligerent speech last night in Chicago, we can assume that President Harris will be an enthusiastic for this and other Neocon military adventures."
"President Trump says he will reopen negotiations with President Putin and end the war overnight as soon as he becomes president."
"This alone would justify my support for his campaign."
"Last summer, it looked like no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end to the Ukraine War, to tackle the chronic disease epidemic, to protect free speech, our Constitutional freedoms, to clean corporate influence out of our government or to defy the Neocons on their agenda of endless military adventurism."
"But now, one of the two candidates has adopted these issue as his own to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration."
"I am speaking, of course, of Donald Trump."
< updates and earlier pre-speech text at link >
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