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Hey @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights. Gutsy. Great example for the kids. Profile in courage. https://t.co/DrhXY3npcF

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RFK Jr. Says Wife Cheryl Hines Told Him to Meet With Trump: ‘You Should Hear Them Out’ | Video

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wasn’t sure about the idea of meeting with Donald Trump, because he thought it would be a “nonstarter” with his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, he told Tucker Carlson in a new interview. But when he called her to talk about it, his wife told him to listen to Trump, he said — and then the couple had an in-person meeting with the former president and his campaign manager, Susie Wiles.

Among the numerous unusual things about the independent presidential candidate is that relationship with Hines, best known for starring on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” She’s even occasionally pushed back against some of her husband’s more controversial views in public — including slamming a statement he made comparing Covid safety regulations to living in Nazi Germany — but now seems to be giving her husband support.

“I had these meetings with President Trump, and they were partly because of you,” Kennedy began the new interview, gesturing toward Carlson. He received a call about meeting with Trump just hours after the former president was shot, Kennedy said.

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Kennedy said that he was told, “there was interest in the Trump campaign by the president of including me. And then he talked about vice president, which I wasn’t interested in.” Trump named J.D. Vance his vice presidential running mate just two days later ahead of the Republican National Convention.

When asked if he’d be interested in talking with Trump, Kennedy said that he told a campaign representative, “I don’t think so.”

“And then, and part of this was, I just thought it was a nonstarter with Cheryl,” Kennedy explained. “And I called Cheryl up, and she said to me, ‘You should hear them out.’”

Carlson interjected, “Smart.”

Kennedy added that he texted the campaign rep he’d been speaking with back, telling her, “I’m interested.”

“And then I got a text from you — you and I have each other’s cell phones — and you had an unknown cell phone number, which you had linked me into, which was President Trump’s number. And you said, ‘You know, he’s waiting for your call.’”

Kennedy said he called Trump that night and they had a great conversation. He went to meet with Trump the next day, the day after he was shot, when they had a two-year meeting with Trump, Cheryl and both campaigns’ campaign managers.

The recent addition to the Trump team went on to share more details about his conversation and the issues they found common ground on, including working to fight chronic disease among children and stopping censorship.

Their conversation didn’t end with a solid conclusion, but they talked about working together, according to Kennedy.

“Then we put it on hold. They wanted me to do something at the convention, and I said ‘no — I’m not going to do that,’” Kennedy said.

Kennedy noted that he still had been hoping at that point that he might be able to get into the debate, though he admitted it was a small one. Kennedy followed up the Trump conversation by reaching out to the Kamala Harris campaign once Joe Biden stepped aside, but Harris declined to meet with him.

You can listen to the full hour-and-a-half discussion between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson in the video above. They cover a plethora of topics, including the idea of Kennedy being the director of the CIA, the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and more.

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• Scroll back up to restore default view.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that former President Trump asked him to serve on his transition team if the GOP presidential nominee wins another term in office.“I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team, you know, to help pick the people who will be running the government, and I’m looking forward to that,” Kennedy said in a lengthy interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.Kennedy ended his independent presidential bid Friday and threw his support behind Trump. He said his name would remain on the ballot in most solidly red and blue states but withdrew from the battleground states where he could make a difference.He joined Trump at his rally over the weekend in Arizona, where the GOP nominee welcomed him into the fold.“Tonight, I’m very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share, and we’ve shared them for a long time,” Trump said in his introduction of Kennedy. “I think he’s going to have a huge influence on this campaign.”Kennedy, by the end of his campaign, was running as an independent, after first challenging President Biden for the Democratic nomination.When asked how he plans to spend his time until Election Day — now just 70 days away — Kennedy told Carlson that he will work to get Trump elected.“I’m working with the campaign,” Kennedy added. “We’re working on policy issues together.”“And I’m going to fight,” he continued. “I don’t know what would happen to me if we lose.”In The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s aggregate of polls, Vice President Harris leads Trump by 4.1 percentage points — 49.7 percent to 45.6 percent. When Kennedy is added to the mix, Harris still leads with 49 percent, to the former president’s 43.9 percent. The independent brought in just 2.8 percent of the vote.The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.In an interview in Tucker Carlson’s fake-log cabin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’s not simply endorsing Donald Trump, he is a part of the Trump team.
  Kennedy announced on Monday that he is officially “working with the campaign,” not only to get Trump elected. “We are working on policy issues together.”“I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team,” Kennedy added, “to help pick the people who will be running the government” in a potential second Trump term.RFK Jr. on Tucker Carlson: Trump asked me to join his transition team and “help pick the people who will be running the government”
  
  “I’m working with the campaign, we’re working on policy issues together.” pic.twitter.com/KuNocAHwlp— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) August 26, 2024As Kennedy announced Friday that he will formally suspend his campaign (but will, confusingly, still appear on the ballot in “non-battleground states”), he appeared to be vying for the position of health secretary on Trump’s team. He even went so far as to coin his own Trumpian phrase, “Make America Healthy Again.”
  Trump has already appointed donors Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick as co-chairs of his transition team, as well as his adult sons as honorary chairs. Trump on Monday confirmed the news of RFK Jr.’s appointment to his transition team, alongside another notorious conspiracy theorist, Tulsi Gabbard. The news could be seen as a snub to Project 2025 and other Trump loyalists, who have worked tirelessly to prepare for Trump’s first year in office, especially given Kennedy’s previous comments about the former president.
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• Up nextRFK Jr.’s Trump endorsement: GOP windfall or minor jolt?Justin Klawans, The Week USTue, August 27, 2024 at 12:06 PM EDT·4 min read8When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty ImagesIndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended his bid for the White House on Aug. 23 and endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump. The son of political icon Robert F. Kennedy will not take the presidential oath of office this coming January, but will his endorsement of Trump have a major impact on the trajectory of the election?Previous polls showed that Kennedy’s existence in the race would likely siphon more votes away from Trump than President Joe Biden. But with Biden now replaced at the top of the Democratic ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris — and with Harris gaining momentum in the polls against Trump — the Kennedy element in the race for the White House could be a whole new one. Or, as some have posited, it may not make much of a difference.RFK Jr.’s decision ‘could still alter’ the presidential raceKennedy’s decision to suspend his campaign “presents another twist to a race already unlike any other,” and it “could still alter a tight presidential race,” said Steve Contorno, Alayna Treene and Aaron Pellish at CNN. Following Kennedy’s endorsement of Trump, there is “hope within the former president’s operation that Kennedy’s exit could prove decisive if certain battlegrounds are decided by thousands of ballots, just as they were in 2020.”Despite Kennedy’s numerous controversies, Trump’s advisers “now see an opening to court some of Kennedy’s voters, particularly those Americans who sit at the overlap between supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ past presidential campaigns and the GOP’s anti-establishment right wing,” said Contorno, Treene and Pellish. There is also a presumption that “conservative-leaning mothers — a demographic the Republican nominee has struggled to win over — could also be swayed” to Trump due to Kennedy’s endorsement.Kennedy “had previously garnered support from both Republicans and Democrats at about an equal amount,” Diana Glebova, Josh Christenson and Steven Nelson said at the New York Post. His true impact on the race will “ultimately be determined by how many of his supporters decide to vote for Trump — and how forceful his endorsement will be — instead of sitting out the election or voting for Harris.” The fact that Kennedy left the race at this late stage “could also lead to his name remaining on state ballots, so voters could still choose him.”RFK Jr.’s endorsement won’t have ‘much effect at all’Kennedy endorsing Trump won’t have “much effect at all” on the presidential race, said former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), per The Hill. If a voter is “with Robert Kennedy, you’re wanting change, and if you’re wanting change, I don’t know if you’re gonna go with Donald Trump.” This sentiment was echoed by Jen O’Malley Dillon, the manager of the Harris-Walz campaign. When voters “look at RFK and what’s happened over the last several months, the more the American people hear from him, the more we see that they don’t like him that much,” Dillon said to Politico during the Democratic National Convention.Beyond this, Kennedy’s “power to drag the Democratic nominee’s polling down seems to have diminished substantially” due to the entrance of Harris into the race, said Nicole Narea at Vox. When Biden was the Democratic nominee, Kennedy “provided an alternative for a while.” But “when Harris stepped up, that undermined his appeal — at least among Democrats.” There were “wavering Democratic voters who just thought Biden was too old, or they didn’t like him, and Harris is just a more appealing candidate for those kinds of people,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said to Vox.Kennedy “probably wouldn’t hurt the incumbents, even if he had stayed in the race, because he was heading down into the low single digits, way below the threshold needed to turn that key,” American University professor Allan Lichtman said to NewsNation. The “idea that he could somehow turn” votes over to Trump is “absolute nonsense.” But while pundits have mixed opinions, it is “difficult to measure the exact effect of his exit at this stage,” Brendan Rascius said at the Miami Herald. 
• Up nextRFK Jr.’s sister Kerry Kennedy to stump in Phoenix for Harris after brother endorses TrumpRonald J. Hansen, Arizona RepublicTue, August 27, 2024 at 9:02 AM EDT·2 min read2Kerry Kennedy, perhaps the most outspoken sibling of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will campaign Tuesday in Arizona in support of the Democratic presidential ticket her brother spurned in favor of Republican former President Donald Trump.The visit serves as a reminder of the disapproval RFK has found from many in his famous family as he has drifted from a Democratic presidential candidate to an independent to a prominent supporter of Trump.On Friday, Robert Kennedy announced in Phoenix that he was suspending his presidential campaign in swing states and backing Trump. He took the stage with Trump later that day during Trump’s packed rally in Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena.Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and one of the 2023 honorees, speaks to the media on the Freedom Award red carpet prior to the award ceremony outside the Halloran Centre in Downtown Memphis, on Thursday, October 19, 2023.In response, his sister Kerry Kennedy will speak at multiple undisclosed events in Phoenix with organized labor leader Dolores Huerta, who helped mobilize Latinos with Kennedy’s father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Sr., leading up to the fateful California primary in his 1968 presidential campaign. Kennedy Sr. was assassinated on June 6, 1968.Kerry Kennedy has fumed about her brother’s newfound closeness to Trump. She put out a written statement with four of her siblings calling his “betrayal” of their father’s legacy “a sad ending to a sad story.”“I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump,” she said Sunday in an interview with MSNBC. “I completely get out and separate and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. in this flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father’s memory.”Robert Kennedy explained his decision on Friday as an outgrowth of a Democratic Party that is “corrupt” and in league with the media to silence critics and support the war in Ukraine to fuel the interests of the “military-industrial complex.”“The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles, and it has joined this systemic attack on democracy,” he said.Kerry Kennedy’s work on behalf of the Democratic ticket isn’t new: She campaigned for President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania in April.In July, Huerta endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris when Biden quit the race and has been active in campaigning in Arizona since then.Kerry Kennedy and Huerta are expected to speak about Harris’ economic plans in contrast to Project 2025, the manifesto for a second Trump term drawn up by veterans of the first Trump administration and other conservatives.