Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once damned President-elect Donald Trump with a comparison to brutal Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Newly-resurfaced audio from Kennedy’s “Ring Of Fire” radio show in 2016 hears him saying Trump is “not like Hitler” because “Hitler had like a plan, you know, Hitler was interested in policy.”
“I don’t think Trump has any of that,” Kennedy added. “He’s like non compos mentis. He’ll get in there and who knows what will happen.”
In other uncovered audio, Kennedy described Trump as a “carnival barker” whose “fear-based” statements encourage fear of Muslims and Black people.
Andrew Kaczynski’s CNN “K-File” dug up the audio this week.
And while Kaczynski acknowledged to “OutFront” host Erin Burnett that Kennedy was a “Trump hater in the past” (calling Trump a “terrible” president as recently as July) these comments “take it to a whole another level.”
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Kennedy on Thursday expressed his regret over his remarks ― with a Trump-fawning twist.
“Like many Americans, I allowed myself to believe the mainstream media’s distorted, dystopian portrait of President Trump. I no longer hold this belief and now regret having made those statements,” he said in a statement to CNN.
Kennedy ran as an independent candidate in the 2024 election before dropping out and fiercely endorsing his rival. He’s now fully bent the knee to Trump who has tapped him to run the Health and Human Services Department.
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Trump promised on the campaign trail to let Kennedy “go wild” on all things health. Kennedy is not a medical professional and has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.