Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped a bombshell on the 2024 presidential election this weekend with an announcement on former President Donald Trump’s transition team this weekend.
RFK, Jr. revealed that the former president has strategy to avoid what he views as one of the biggest mistakes from his first administration.
“I’ve talked to Donald Trump specifically about this,” Kennedy said during a Trump-Vance campaign event.
“The last time you were in there, you put John Bolton in charge of NSA, and Mike Pompeo in charge of the CIA… and he said, ‘Here’s the difference… when I got in last time, I had no idea how to govern, and I got surrounded by donors and corporate people.'”
Trump has broken with tradition by privately funding and launching his transition team three months before the standard November 6 start date, RFK, Jr. announced.
The General Accounting Office typically begins funding such efforts after the election.
“He’s appointed 20 people including me and Tulsi [Gabbard],” said Kennedy. “There’s people of all different kinds of ideology and people who we’re gonna have to go up against on that transition team and fight for our vision.”
Kennedy emphasized a crucial difference from Trump’s team to traditional transition teams.
“There’s people of all different kinds of ideology and people who we’re going to have to go up against on that transition team and fight for our vision,” Kennedy said.
“But I can tell you this, which is unique: There are no corporate lobbyists on that transition team. And usually it’s 100% corporate lobbyists,” he continued.
The comments come as Trump faces criticism from former Chief of Staff John Kelly, who told the New York Times that his former boss met the definition of a fascist and that the 45th president praised Adolf Hitler – claims Trump has forcefully denied, calling Kelly a “lowlife.”
Kennedy’s revelations about the transition planning followed Trump’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, where the former president discussed learning from his 2016 staffing decisions.
“This time I’m not gonna do that,” Trump told Kennedy about his previous reliance on donor and corporate recommendations for key appointments.
“So it’s very, very different, and it gives me lots of hope that this government is going to be different than any government we’ve ever seen.”