A long list of controversies written by Robert Kennedy Jr.,…

Independent presidential candidate’s White House campaign suspended Robert F. Kennedy Sonwhich was announced on Friday the 23rd, highlighted a long list of controversies involving the politician. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former US President John F. Kennedyran without family support – according to the magazine Vanity FairMost of his relatives expected the campaign to collapse because of his association with the anti-vaccine movement. The environmental lawyer has long been a vaccine skeptic, and in 2015 he joined the organization Advocating for children’s healthwho promotes false claims about childhood vaccinations. A few years later, during the pandemic, the candidate suggested that the coronavirus was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jews and Chinese, suggesting that his denialist group had suffered greater persecution than he had. Anne Frank.

Last year, the politician sent a friend an old photo of himself holding a dead dog. In the 2010 photo, Kennedy Jr. stands next to a woman with the remains of the roasted animal. Shortly after, the candidate said it was a goat and joked about the situation, declaring he had “skeletons in the closet.” “Hey @VanityFair, when your veterinarians say a goat is a dog and your forensic experts say that photo taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, you know you’ve joined the supermarket tabloids,” Kennedy wrote on Twitter.

The politician was also accused of sexual harassment by a former employee. In 1998 when he married his second wife Mary RichardsonThey both hired a 23 year old woman named Eliza Cooneyto be a nanny. Connie, who was caring for his two children, lived at the lawyer’s house. She was at a family kitchen meeting with Kennedy one night when she felt his hand moving up and down under her leg. Weeks later, she discovered that he had been watching her while she slept.

Around the same time he married Mary, Kennedy was known to send photos of naked women to friends, who assumed he had taken the photos himself, but did not know if the photos had been taken with their consent. However, when one of the friends lost his phone, the lawyer panicked and feared he had discovered one of the photos.

Although he did not completely abandon his candidacy, when he announced the suspension of his campaign, Kennedy endorsed the former US President, Donald Trumpwho is running for a second term. The Republican’s support has caused further intrigue among his relatives, who have declared their support for the Democrat. Kamala HarrisIn response, the family said the politician’s stance was a “betrayal.”