Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. responded to speculation that he could become former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate in a statement issued on Wednesday.
While Kennedy has given interviews to Trump-friendly media outlets in recent days, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy tried to distance himself from Trump.
“Just to quell any speculation, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will I join Donald Trump on an electoral ticket. Our positions on certain fundamental issues, our approaches to governance, and our philosophies of leadership could not be further apart,” Kennedy, a prominent critic of childhood vaccines, wrote on Twitter.
He did not elaborate further on how he differs from Trump. But in a Twitter post on Wednesday, Kennedy alleged that the Trump administration sold weapons to Ukraine in 2017, but he also said that his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, also provided billions of dollars to the Ukrainian military “amidst a steady barrage of hostile actions toward Russia.”
“The U.S. supported (with $5 billion) public protests that culminated in the 2014 armed, far-right coup against Ukraine’s democratically elected pro-Russian government, replacing it with an unelected pro-Western government handpicked by Neocon leader Victoria Nuland, the United States Under Secretary of State,” he also wrote, referring to alleged actions that were carried out by the Obama State Department in the Eastern European county amidst the 2014 “Revolution of Dignity” that’s sometimes described as “color revolution” that toppled the previous government.
In a recent interview, Trump said that if he is elected, he’ll end the Ukraine-Russia war in “24 hours” and “would be easy” to accomplish. Trump also lamented the horrors of the war, noting that entire blocks of apartments have been flattened since the conflict erupted last year.
“You don’t knock down a whole city and say that two people got hurt,” Trump told GB News earlier this month, referring to reports of casualties. “Thousands of people are being killed in these cities that are being knocked down … these are massive buildings.”
