Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is enjoying to his conspiracy-minded base days after a disastrous response to questions on his previous.
The unbiased candidate for president, who has lengthy stoked conspiracy theories about vaccines and different issues, turned Friday to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults — promising he would “open the recordsdata” to handle lingering questions in regards to the plot.
Kennedy mentioned in a sequence of posts on X that he was motivated to touch upon Sept. 11 by a latest 60 Minutes report that revisited long-standing hypothesis about whether or not anybody within the Saudi authorities had advance information of the terrorist plot.
The candidate mentioned “it’s onerous to inform what’s a conspiracy idea and what isn’t,” and he blamed U.S. authorities dishonesty for the uncertainty.
“As President I received’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the opposite debates,” he mentioned. “However I can promise is that I’ll open the recordsdata and usher in a brand new period of transparency.”
The feedback got here at a troublesome level for the candidate. He was the topic of a latest Vainness Honest profile that included in depth particulars about previous drug use, allegations he sexually assaulted a nanny within the late Nineteen Nineties and ate canine meat. In a later interview, he denied consuming canine meat however sidestepped questions in regards to the assault and admitted to a checkered previous.
“I’ve mentioned this from the start: I’m not a church boy,” he mentioned, including that “I’ve … so many skeletons in my closet, that if they may all vote, I may run for king of the world.”
The candidate has beforehand prompt Covid was “focused to assault Caucasians and Black folks,” AIDS comes from a “gay lifestyle” as an alternative of HIV and that the CIA assassinated his uncle, President John F. Kennedy.
In his social media put up, Kennedy pointed to a rising sense of presidency distrust.
“Hypothesis about what our authorities could also be protecting up is rife exterior the mainstream of our political tradition,” Kennedy wrote. “Belief it authorities is at an all-time low. The best way to revive that belief is thru honesty and transparency.”
Belief within the authorities has typically decreased because the Nineteen Sixties, and simply 22 p.c of People say they belief the federal authorities to do what is correct “more often than not,” based on a 2024 Pew Research Center survey.
Kennedy mentioned he would use “honesty and transparency” to “resolve any questions” in regards to the Sept. 11 assaults, during which almost 3,000 folks have been killed, in addition to unidentified aerial phenomena and different “contentious matters.”
