Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 70, of Los Angeles, California, is having another bad week.
Kennedy is 3,000 miles from home testifying in an Albany, New York, courtroom, where he falsely claimed that he had lived for 50 years. The truth is he’s been living in California with his third wife, actress Cheryl Hines, since 2014.
Several damning pieces of evidence emerged Tuesday in a lawsuit against RFK Jr. claiming that he listed a New York residence on his New York ballot nomination petition paperwork despite not living there.
- Mother Jones reported that, in an affidavit, RFK Jr. laughably claimed that he and Hines agreed that when she retired from acting, they would leave their $7 million Los Angeles home to return to his “current residence at 84 Croton Lake Road, Katonah, New York.” The residence he claims is a tiny $500-per-month room he rents month-to-month. Curious!
- The Associated Press reported that Barbara Moss, the owner of the Katonah property that RFK Jr. claims as his residence, testified that he rents a room from from her for $500 a month but acknowledged that those payments began a day after a May 19 New York Post article questioning RFK Jr.’s claims he lives in New York. Seems fishy!
- According to the AP, the plaintiffs’ attorney produced a July 2 affirmation from RFK Jr. that his driver’s license was registered to that Katonah address and government documents showing that wasn’t true – it was not registered to that address until the next day. Not great!
“RFK Jr. lives in LA. He’s said it himself many times, and his friends say it as well. To say otherwise is just ridiculous. He is committing an obvious fraud against the voters and it cannot go unpunished,” said American Bridge 21st Century Communications Director of Presidential Campaigns Brandon Weathersby. “RFK Jr.’s massive sense of entitlement is palpable as he lies about his current residence and continually volunteers disturbing information about his past misdeeds. He has no path to victory and isn’t just lying about where he lives, but why he is running, to spoil the election for Donald Trump in exchange for a job in his administration.”
RFK Jr.’s role as a campaign spoiler was confirmed after news reports exposed a secret scheme by the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist to end his presidential campaign in exchange for overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services as its next secretary in a future Trump administration. Just days later, RFK Jr. praised Donald Trump at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference and said the convicted felon was “highly likely to be our next president.”
In addition to sitting in a New York courtroom, RFK Jr. is facing a torrent of bad headlines this week after The New Yorker reported – and he confirmed in a bizarre story he told to a bewildered Roseanne Barr – that, in 2014, he left a dead bear cub in Central Park so he could get to a steak dinner on time. Despite widespread news coverage of the bear’s presence in the park, RFK Jr. never told authorities what happened until his confession to Barr a decade later.
The one good piece of news RFK Jr. seemingly got in recent days is that he won’t be charged or fined in the Central Park incident because the statute of limitations had run out.
Published: Aug 7, 2024 | Last Modified: Aug 13, 2024