Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally suspended his marketing campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential election throughout a speech Friday, AUgust 23, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kennedy, in a press release, outlined the three major causes that drove him to this choice: free speech, the struggle in Ukraine, and what he described as “the struggle on our kids.”
He defined that these points had been central to his preliminary choice to go away the Democratic Get together and run as an unbiased, and now they’ve compelled him to help Trump’s candidacy.
One main plank in his marketing campaign was therapeutic the American youngsters’s well being disaster.
Kennedy described how components and impure meals selections are harming and killing America’s youngsters.
Throughout his speech he advised how President Trump agreed with him on the significance of this difficulty.
Kennedy additionally described how he approached Kamala Harris to debate the well being disaster in America and different points – however Kamala was not desirous about speaking.
Here’s a partial transcript from Kennedy’s speech. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about how President Trump spoke with him hours after the would-be murderer in Bulter, PA virtually took his life.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.: Lower than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination. Calley Means referred to as me on my cellular phone. I used to be then in Las Vegas. Calley is arguably the main advocate for meals security, for soil regeneration, and and for ending the continual illness epidemic that’s destroying America’s well being and ruining our economic system.
Calley has uncovered the insidious corruption on the FDA, the NIH, the HHS, and the USDA that has precipitated the epidemic. Calley had been engaged on and off for my marketing campaign, advising me on these topics for the reason that starting. These topics have been my major focus for the final 20 years. I I used to be delighted when Calley advised me that day that he had additionally been advising President Trump. He advised me President Trump was anxious to speak to me about continual illness and different topics and to discover avenues of cooperation. He requested if I might take a name from the President.
President Trump telephoned me a couple of minutes later, and I met with him the next day. Just a few weeks later, I met once more with President and his members of the family and shut advisors in Florida. In a sequence of lengthy, intense discussions, I used to be shocked to find that we’re aligned on many key points.
In these conferences, he recommended that we be a part of forces as a unity social gathering. We talked about Abraham Lincoln’s group of rivals. That association would enable us to disagree publicly and privately, and furiously, if want be, on points over which we differ, whereas working collectively on the existential points upon which we’re in concordance.
I used to be a ferocious critic of lots of the insurance policies throughout his first administration, and there are nonetheless points and approaches upon which we proceed to have very critical variations. We’re aligned with one another on different key points, like ending the Ceaselessly Wars, ending the childhood illness epidemics, securing the border, defending freedom of speech, unravelling the company seize of our regulatory businesses, getting the US intelligence company is out of the enterprise of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling People, and interfering with our elections.
Following my first dialogue with President Trump, I all tried, unsuccessfully, to open comparable discussions with Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris declined to fulfill and even to talk with me.
Suspending my candidacy is a hard-rending choice for me, however I’m satisfied that it’s one of the best hope for ending the Ukraine struggle and ending the continual illness epidemic that’s eroding our nation’s vitality from the within.
Right here is the video.
