Less than a week after officially dropping his presidential campaign and announcing that he will endorse former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign against his own longtime political party, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is roiling all sorts of feathers — particularly amongst Democrat lifers.
In a lengthy sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson, RFK, Jr. announced what his next move will be.
And it’s already making some Democrats call for him to be locked up.
During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show on X, RFK, Jr. said that Trump’s camp has already asked him to play an important role should the former president reclaim the White House in November.
“I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team to help pick the people who will be running the government and I am looking forward to that,” Kennedy told Carlson during the appearance.
In his long chat with former Fox News host Carlson, Kennedy also said he was “gonna work to get [Trump] elected” and that he and Trump’s people were “working on policy issues together.”
RFK, Jr. also touched on a number of other hot-button issues, including political censorship.
When Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump last week, he burned his boats. There’s no turning back for him, or for American politics. Here’s his first interview since that happened.
(0:42) RFK Jr. Endorsing Donald Trump
(11:26) Censorship and Pavel Durov’s Arrest
(34:56) America’s… pic.twitter.com/AOQULEvZeX— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 26, 2024
During the interview, RFK Jr. ripped into the Biden-Harris administration for “pressuring” social media to “censor” him.
Kennedy blasted the Biden administration for removing his Instagram account during the COVID-19 pandemic under the guise of “misinformation” without pointing to a specific post.
“President Biden’s White House opened up a portal for the FBI to begin to have access to social media posts on all the different social media sites, and they the FBI, then invited in the CIA. DHS, the IRS, and PSI,” Kennedy explained. “PSI say is this new agency that is the center of the censorship industrial complex that is in charge of making sure Americans don’t hear things that their government doesn’t want them to hear? And those agencies and other agencies, including the health agencies like CDC, were given access to go into the social media sites and change posts and slow walk things and, and shadow ban pose that it was part of that effort.”
“And they removed my Instagram account. I had almost a million followers,” Kennedy told Carlson. “They say it was for misinformation, but they could not point to a single post that I ever made that was factually erroneous. And they actually, Facebook pushed back, and the email chain. You can see Facebook pushing back at the White House and saying, ‘Wait a minute. He’s not — this isn’t misinformation. This is not actually erroneous. What they’re saying is actually true.’”
According to a Daily Caller report, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted Monday in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan that senior Biden officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams in 2021 to suppress COVID-19 content on its platform that otherwise would not have been restricted. He wrote that the administration “expressed a lot of frustration” with his teams when Facebook initially showed hesitation.
Kennedy clearly isn’t your typical Democrat. Aside from running his campaign as an Independent, many of his positions are ruffled feathers within the Democratic Party.
Many, including famed Democratic strategist James Carville, have blasted Kennedy for breaking with the party — and called for him to be locked away.
Carville told CNN during an interview Monday that he thinks Kennedy should be thrown in a mental institution because he’s a Kennedy endorsing Trump.
Democrat Strategist James Carville wants RFK locked up in a mental institution
What's his crime? His last name is Kennedy, and he Endorses Trump
"No business being on the street"
This is not the first time libs have threatened people they don't like
— Cash Loren (@CashLorenShow) August 27, 2024
Watch the entire RFK, Jr. sit-down with Tucker Carlson: