“I watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the path of drug addiction. His basement, his garage, his dorm room were always the center of the action where drugs were available and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence,” she said.
Although Kennedy acknowledged her cousin has been able to “pull himself out of illness and disease,” she accused him of living a double standard and financially benefitting from some of his vaccine skepticism.
“While he may encourage a younger generation to attend AA meetings, Bobby is addicted to attention and power. Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children, vaccinating his own kids while building a following hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs,” she said.
Caroline Kennedy, the former ambassador to Australia, said it had not been easy remaining silent during her cousin’s failed presidential campaign but felt obligated to speak out because she feels he has misrepresented the assassinations of her father, John F. Kennedy, and uncle, Robert F. Kennedy.
“It also wasn’t easy to remain silent last year when Bobby expropriated my father’s image and distracted President Kennedy’s legacy to advance his own failed presidential campaign and then grovel to Donald Trump for a job,” she said.
“Bobby continues to grandstand off my father’s assassination and that of his own father. It’s incomprehensible to me that someone who is willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies for publicity would be put in charge of America’s life and death situations,” she continued.
