Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday he is endorsing Donald Trump for president. Both Trump and RFK Jr. are former Democrats.
“I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960 and back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights,” said Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy, who were both assassinated (several years apart) at the heights of their political careers.
“The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars,” said Kennedy at a rally with Trump. “We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the full world against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy.
He then condemned the Democratic Party of today: “As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and Big Money.”
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