Caroline Kennedy calls RFK Jr. a “predator” in letter to the senators

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Caroline Kennedy wrote a devastating letter to the key senators on Tuesday and called her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” that depends on the broadcast of dangerous views on vaccinations and who is not as a health secretary of the nation.

She asked the legislators to question Mr. Kennedy during his confirmation lists on Wednesday and Thursday to reject his nomination. She quoted his lack of experience, incorrectly informed views of vaccines and personal characteristics. In the letter, she described how he led other family members “the path of drug addiction”.

“His basement, his garage and dormitory were the centers of the campaign in which drugs were available, and he showed how he put baby chickens and mice in the mixer to feed his falcons,” wrote Ms. Kennedy. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

Your letter was reported to the Washington Post for the first time.

Ms. Kennedy expressed particular outrage about the new disclosures in his ethics agreement submitted with the Senate, which she as a outline, how his “crusade against the vaccination benefited him in another way”.

She quoted Mr. Kennedy's decision to maintain a financial part of legal disputes against Merck, which makes an important vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV), which is administered to protect against cervical cancer.

“In other words, he is ready to enrich himself by refusing access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and the millions of boys and girls were safely administered,” wrote Ms. Kennedy.

As an ambassador for President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Australia, Ms. Kennedy was actively involved in promoting the HPV vaccine, which has brought Australia to a way to eliminate cervical cancer. She was instrumental in convincing Mr. Biden to expand his initiative “Cancer Moonshot” to the Indo-Pacific region.

In her role as ambassador, Ms. Kennedy said she hesitated to make public comments against Mr. Kennedy, who started his 2023 presidential campaign as the main challenge for Mr. Biden before running as an independent candidate. When Mr. Kennedy brought in his commandment of the President, he supported Mr. Trump, who after winning the election of the election, named Mr. Kennedy as his election for health secretary.

Then she broke with her cousin and said his views of vaccination were dangerous.

Her letter painted Mr. Kennedy as a charismatic figure, “ready to take risks and break the rules” and to attract others by the strength of his magnetic personality. Then she pursued a tragic story of Mr. Kennedy's influence on other family members.

“But siblings and cousins ​​that encouraged Bobby to the path of drug abuse, suffered, seeking, illness and death,” she wrote, “while Bobby is incorrectly presented, lies and cheats on life.”

The younger brother of Mr. Kennedy, David, died in Palm Beach County in May 1984 for “multiple intake” by three drugs found in his body fluids, the authorities said at that time,

Other relatives have also spoken out against Mr. Kennedy, including his brother Joseph Kennedy II and his sister Kerry Kennedy, who described his comments on breed and vaccines as “unfortunate and untrue”.

On Tuesday, Jack Schlossberg, Ms. Kennedy's son, who was also critical of Mr. Kennedy, released a video on his mother's social media, in which he read the letter she had written.

“I am so proud of my brave mother, who led a life in dignity, integrity and service,” Schlossberg wrote.

In the letter sent on Tuesday, Ms. Kennedy gave her cousin the honor of overcoming his drug addiction, which Mr. Kennedy discussed in detail. On his own, Mr. Kennedy became addicted to heroin in 1968 when he tried to cope with his father's murder. In 1984 he owed himself guilty of having a criminal offense for heroin possessions and entered the treatment.

Ms. Kennedy was also hard criticism of the interests of her cousin against vaccines and described her as part of attention and power.

“Bobby holds the despair of parents of sick children – in the vaccination of his own children, while building a supporter by displacing other parents hypocritically,” she wrote.

Ms. Kennedy also emphasized “the conspiratorial half -truths he told about vaccines” in connection with the measles outbreak in 2019 in Samoa, to which she said “tasted life”.

The letter was directed to senators who will guide the committees that will check his nomination this week, including Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho; Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon; Bill Cassidy, a Republican of Louisiana and Bernie Sanders, regardless of Vermont.

She noticed that the family was close and that it was difficult. Nevertheless, she has accused her cousin to use the family's inheritance of the family's tragedy for political profits. The father of Mr. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, was murdered during a presidential campaign in 1968. Her father and uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was fatally shot in Dallas in 1963.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Disturbed President Kennedy's legacy to drive his own failed presidential campaign – and then gave a job to Donald Trump,” the letter said. “Bobby ends my father's attack and that of his own father.”

She suggested that her father John F. Kennedy, her uncle Robert F. Kennedy and another uncle, the long -time legislator Ted Kennedy, “be disgusted”.

She closed the letter with a plea for the senators to reject the nomination of her cousin on behalf of the doctors, nurses, scientists and supervisors who fuel the American health system.

“They deserve a secretary who has committed to the further development of modern medicine to save lives and the progress that we have already made,” wrote Ms. Kennedy. “They deserve a stable, moral and ethical person at the head of this decisive agency. They earn it better than Bobby Kennedy – and the rest of us too. “