A shocking report published by Vanity Fair today exposed the deep, dark, disturbing secrets Robert Kennedy Jr. is desperate to hide from the public as he works to spoil the election for Donald Trump in November.
The exposé details troubling accounts from those close to RFK Jr. worried about his 14 years of heroin use affecting his decision-making abilities, his predatory sexual behaviors, and his exploitation of dangerous vaccine conspiracies that harm the most vulnerable people while enriching himself — among many other issues.
Vanity Fair’s reporting comes just weeks after a damning New York Times report uncovered the carefully-hidden past of RFK Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan. The Times alleged that Shanahan’s adultery caused multiple of her marriages to fail, covered her alleged drug use (including cocaine, ketamine and psychedelic mushrooms) and detailed her obsession with the wealth and status of Silicon Valley.
The most shocking revelations from Vanity Fair’s RFK Jr. exposé:
- Members of RFK Jr.’s own family and long-time friends describe him as someone with “outsize confidence masquerading as expertise” and a “savior complex” with a “pathological need for attention.” Members of the Kennedy family have worked privately to convince RFK Jr. to drop out of the race.
- At Harvard, RFK Jr. regularly injected a mixture of heroin and cocaine, kept an owl in his house, and carried a live snake around campus.
- Author David Horowitz recounted RFK Jr. cutting lines of cocaine for his brother in front of him and being asked by RFK Jr. for a ride to Harlem so he could buy drugs.
- While married to his second wife, Mary Richardson, RFK Jr. sent nude photos that he had apparently taken of women to friends.
- RFK Jr. claimed his “brain fog” medical excuse as a means to avoid paying Richardson child support after the two separated.
- Eliza Cooney claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by RFK Jr. when she was 23 and working for him as a part-time babysitter – damaging her confidence and diverting her from environmental work.
- RFK Jr. kept a “sex diary” that included the names of two dozen women and a scorecard of how far he got with each woman.
- The Richardson family has never forgiven Kennedy, privately maintaining that his boorish and insensitive behavior was a factor in Mary’s death, hiring an investigative firm to explore a possible wrongful death suit against him, and accusing Kennedy of psychological torture.
- RFK Jr. defended his cousin Michael Skakel for years after he was charged and found guilty of the murder of Martha Moxley. RFK Jr. blamed two Black and brown teenagers from New York City, whom investigators had already discounted.
- Last year, RFK Jr. texted a photograph from 2010 to a friend of himself holding a barbecued dog and suggested he had eaten dog at a Korean restaurant. “For the recipient it was disturbing evidence of Kennedy’s poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family,” sources told Vanity Fair.
- RFK Jr. was pushed out of the environmental groups Natural Resources Defense Council and Riverkeeper for repeating harmful anti-science rhetoric, opposing eco-friendly wind-powered turbines that would obstruct his family’s ocean views in Hyannis Port, and recklessly meeting with infamous climate change denier, Donald Trump.
- RFK Jr. helped pressure the Samoan prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi to stop MMR vaccines on the island. In the following months, 5,707 citizens were infected with measles and 83 died from the disease, most of them children. It was the single-largest measles outbreak in Samoan history that was only contained after mandatory vaccinations were ordered.
- RFK Jr. used the COVID pandemic to disseminate misinformation to an anti-vaccine movement that politicized health measures meant to control the spread of the disease and save lives. At the same time, money poured into RFK Jr.’s tax-exempt Children’s Health Defense, doubling revenue in 2020 to $6.8 million, and increasing Kennedy’s annual salary to $510,515 in 2022 from $40,200 in 2016.
Published: Jul 2, 2024 | Last Modified: Jul 17, 2024