It’s secure to imagine that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfamiliar with the idea of latest automotive scent.
Carole Radziwill — whose late husband Anthony was finest pals with RFK Jr.’s cousin, the late John F. Kennedy Jr. — admitted on the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast that though the politics of the Secretary of Health and Human Companies have modified through the years, there’s at all times been one fixed in his life: his love for roadkill.
And because of Kennedy’s macabre pastime, driving in his automotive sounds quite a bit like a scene from a horror film known as one thing like, “Minivan of a Thousand Corpses.”
“He had that weird thing about roadkill, always,” Radziwill mentioned on Swisher’s podcast. “He would pick it up from the road all the time and leave it in his minivan, and sometimes he’d forget. There’d be like a skunk under the seat. His minivan always smelled of death.”
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum added that she knew Kennedy and his late spouse, Mary Richardson, “well” and “spent a lot of time” with them earlier than and after her husband died in 1999.
Radziwill informed Swisher that apart from Kennedy’s affinity for animal cadavers, she doesn’t actually acknowledge the person she knew, who she described as as soon as being a “fierce environmental advocate.”
“I just can’t reconcile who it is I thought I knew with this person who has appeared on the scene,” Radziwill mentioned of Kennedy. “He’s undermining everything that the Kennedy family stood for, everything on every level.”
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Radziwill, who can also be a former ABC journalist, prompt that she’s terrified that the well being secretary’s penchant for roadkill, peddling of conspiracy theories and his lack of ability to do his job effectively or take any accountability for his errors will finally dominate the Kennedy household’s legacy.
“If millions of children die, certainly,” Swisher responded, seemingly referring to the continuing measles outbreak, which the New York Instances experiences has “sickened thousands and caused more than a dozen deaths.”
The resurgence of measles — which the Instances notes is a virus that was declared eradicated in 2000 — might be tied to anti-vaccine beliefs that Kennedy helped popularize.
Radziwill informed Swisher that she misplaced contact with Kennedy shortly after Richardson died in 2012. She additionally implied that she minimize him off across the time Kennedy turned the face of the anti-vax motion.
“He really made his mark being an antivaxer, that was his whole thing,” Radziwill mentioned. “My feeling is like, he had exhausted everything he could possibly write and talk about on the environment, which I think always was his true passion — at least when I knew him.”
Radziwill went on to say that she thinks Kennedy’s swap from environmentalism to anti-vax peddling was purely a “money thing.”
“So … now you’re going to write 10 books on pharmaceutical companies and vaccines,” Radziwill mentioned. “To my head, it’s like a business move.”
“A grift,” Swisher mentioned.
“A grift, yeah,” Radziwill agreed.
Then Radziwill summed up why she thinks President Donald Trump picked Kennedy for his cupboard place.
“Grifters see grifters,” Radziwill mentioned.
