Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he has to “be careful” in the midst of his 2024 campaign, seemingly making note of the deaths of his uncle and father.
In light of the assassination deaths of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, podcast host Joe Rogan asked the younger Kennedy about what he might do if he were elected president. As a longtime proponent of the theory that the CIA killed former President Kennedy, he responded by saying: “I gotta be careful.”
“I’m aware of that, you know, I’m aware of that danger. I don’t live in fear of it—at all. But I’m not stupid about it, and I take precautions,” he said. JFK, he added, often spoke of being “at war” with the military-industrial complex, a term that was popularized by former President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961 when he warned about what he described as collusion between defense companies and the federal government.
RFK Jr. also said that intelligence agencies in the early 1960s were trying to “trick” JFK into launching military excursions in Vietnam and Cuba. That came before his uncle proclaimed he must splinter the CIA into “thousands of pieces” and “scatter it into the winds” after the Bay of Pigs incident.
Former President Kennedy “learned very early on that the purpose of the CIA and the intelligence apparatus was to create a constant pipeline of new wars for them, for the military-industrial complex,” he told Rogan.
The younger Kennedy announced his presidential campaign in April and has garnered modest support among some Democrat voters. However, a recent HarrisX poll shows that he’s behind President Joe Biden by about 40 percentage points.
Reports have indicated that Kennedy, however, could win New Hampshire’s Democrat primary after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) named South Carolina the first primary state. It’s because Biden’s name likely won’t appear on the state’s primary ballot, leaving Kennedy and self-help author Marianne Williamson to vy for the state’s nomination.
