Three revelations from The New Yorker expose

The magazine published a picture of Kennedy putting his hand in the dead bear cub’s mouth, posing as if the bear were biting his hand.

When asked about the bear incident, he quipped to the magazine: “Maybe that’s where the brain worm got into me.” Kennedy was referring to a period in 2010 when he suffered memory loss, which led to him discovering that a worm had entered his brain and he had died.

Prior to the story’s publication, RFK Jr. confirmed in a video posted online Sunday that he had brought the dead bear cub to New York City’s Central Park about 10 years ago. The New Yorker reported that the incident took place in the fall of 2014, which coincided with media reports about the discovery of a dead bear cub in the park.

Kennedy said he had been on a trip upstate New York City to practice falconry with a group when he witnessed a young bear being run over and killed by a woman in a pickup truck. He said he loaded the bear carcass into his vehicle with the intention of skinning it and eating the meat, but the day got away from him.

“I pulled over, picked up the bear and put it in the back of my truck because I was going to skin it and it was in pretty good condition,” Kennedy said in the video, speaking to comedian Roseanne Barr. “And then I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.”

Eventually, he says, he found himself in Manhattan and realized he needed to get the dead cub out of his vehicle. Since bicycle accidents received considerable media coverage at the time, Kennedy said, he and his friends thought it would be funny to stage a scene in Central Park as if the bear had been hit by a bicycle.

The image of Kennedy posing with a dead bear cub echoes another controversial photo, published in July in Vanity Fair. In that image, Kennedy poses as if ready to eat a grilled animal carcass purported to be a dog. The photo was taken in 2010, the same year he was diagnosed with a dead worm in his brain.

Vanity Fair reported that Kennedy sent the image to his friend so they could enjoy a restaurant in Korea that serves dogs, possibly suggesting that he had tried it himself. The publication consulted a veterinarian who said the carcass in the photo appeared to be a dog. Kennedy refuted claims that the animal was a dog, saying instead that it was a goat.

In a recent text message exchange, RFK Jr. calls Trump “a sociopath”

In a recent text message exchange reported by The New Yorker, Kennedy described former President Trump as a “terrible human being” and referred to him as the “worst president ever.”

“He’s probably a sociopath,” Kennedy said, referring to Trump, in text messages to an unidentified recipient, the magazine reported.

Kennedy went on to say that President Biden was “more dangerous to the Republic and the planet” than Trump, according to the magazine.

Before last month’s Republican National Convention, where Trump was officially named the GOP presidential nominee, he and Kennedy had a phone call.

A video of the private call posted online by Kennedy’s son revealed that Trump appeared to agree with Kennedy’s false claims about vaccines and vaguely hinted that Kennedy should endorse his campaign.

On the call, Trump is heard saying: “A vaccine that is like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it was made for a horse, not a 10- or 20-pound baby.”

“And then you see that all of a sudden the baby starts to change dramatically,” Trump added.

Kennedy later apologized after the video was posted online, saying a cameraman was recording and that he “should have ordered the cameraman to stop recording immediately.”

Kennedy’s campaign manager said Trump offered RFK Jr. a job.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedy’s daughter-in-law and campaign manager, told the New Yorker that Trump and his team had asked Kennedy, “Is there anything you want to do?” after the former president suggested the possibility of Kennedy ending his campaign.

Fox Kennedy told the magazine that Kennedy is open to serving in the Trump administration, noting that the possibility of leading the Department of Health and Human Services would be an “incredibly interesting” role.

Fox Kennedy also told the New Yorker that Kennedy would be open to offers from a Harris administration.

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