Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the basis for two of the most bizarre stories in the 2024 cycle. The first was that his brain had been partially eaten by worms, which he blamed on consuming too many tuna sandwiches. Kennedy has zero shot of winning the 2024 election, but his handlers wanted to tell us that even with parts of his brain eaten by parasites, it shouldn’t impede him from carrying out duties as our chief executive. Now, he’s the man behind the dead bear cub that was discovered in Central Park ten years ago.
CNN covering the dead bear cub story in 2014.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 4, 2024
Today, RFK Jr admitted responsibility for it. https://t.co/Zhg3NvL3e9
Kennedy was trying to get ahead of a story about him regarding this incident, so he decided to tell actor Roseanne Barr, who said he had witnessed the car collision that killed the bear. It was still in good condition, so he wanted to skin and eat it later. Kennedy laughably says this was due to the redneck in him. I don’t even know what this means; he’s a Kennedy, the furthest thing from rednecks. Circumstances changed, which led to him dumping the bear in Central Park, staging it as if the cub had been hit by a bicycle (via NYT):
RFK Jr, in an attempt to get ahead of a forthcoming New Yorker story, says in a new video that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and made it seem like a bicyclist did it.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 4, 2024
The video is filmed with Roseanne Barr. pic.twitter.com/ajzbGzkuvg
Mr. Kennedy posted a video detailing the bizarre story on social media apparently ahead of an article in The New Yorker.
“Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one,” he said, tagging the magazine.
In the video, Mr. Kennedy appears to be seated in a kitchen as he casually tells the actress Roseanne Barr about the ordeal. He says that he was driving through the Hudson Valley when he saw a woman in a van hit and kill a young bear.
“I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear,” he says. “It was very good condition and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.”
Mr. Kennedy then details how he had to attend a dinner at Peter Luger Steak House in New York City and then head to the airport, which meant he had to get rid of the bear. He decided to leave the bear in Central Park with an old bicycle to make it look like it had been hit by the bike.
Mr. Kennedy says that he was worried when officials investigated the crime scene, “because my prints were all over that bike.”
Ms. Barr listens closely to the story, laughing and looking shocked. Mr. Kennedy tells her that fact checkers from The New Yorker asked him about the story: “It’s going to be a bad story.”
To be fair, on the scale of Kennedys leaving innocents at the scene of an accident while they go blithely about their fabulous lives, this ranks pretty low. pic.twitter.com/eZDdwCpl2X
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 5, 2024
The most damning part of this whole thing is he said he did it sober. https://t.co/rqHEUrELcr
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 5, 2024
All of a sudden we’re supposed to act surprised that a Kennedy would leave a dead body behind.
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) August 4, 2024
What’s next for Mr. Kennedy?
an infinite number of monkeys could type for a million years and STILL not predict whatever the next RFK Jr. headline is gonna be pic.twitter.com/ElF5ZRugyE
— Jude Atwood (@JudeAtwood) August 4, 2024
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