The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Kennedys Can Handle Scandal—But Draw the Line at RFK Jr.

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. Bobby Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, testified in Congress last week, and he met a barrage of criticism from the Democrats. Very personal ad homin, and he gave back as good as he took. He's a very controversial figure. We all know that. He's a man of the left that Trump welcome in to the Maga Fold.

Starting point is 00:00:48 But here's my point that the entire Kennedy family now has blasted him as an embarrassment. And what's behind this? Everybody knew that he had a checkered history. That didn't seem to bother the Kennedys. What's bothering the Kennedys is this high-profile association with Donald Trump. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal. Bobby Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, testified in Congress last week, and he met a barrage of criticism from the Democrats.

Starting point is 00:01:31 Very personal ad homin, and he gave back his good. as he took. He's a very controversial figure. We all know that. He's a man of the left that Trump welcome into the Maga Fold. He endorsed Trump, I think, in August 23rd or 22nd, right before the election a few months before. But here's my point that the entire Kennedy family now has blasted him as an embarrassment. His first cousin, Carolyn Kennedy, we remember her, the young girl of John F. Kennedy and Jackie called him a predator. And what's behind this? What's behind us is that his checkered life, earlier Bobby Kennedy had been a heroin addict for 12 or 13 years.

Starting point is 00:02:19 His second wife committed suicide. He had a long history of, I don't know what would be the word promiscuity with women, not his wife. Everybody knew that he had a checkered history. That didn't seem to bother the Kennedys. What's bothering the Kennedys is this high-profile association with Donald Trump. Now, a lot of things that he says at health and human services we can all disagree with. But there is one general point that I think he has validity, and that is we spend more money per person about $13,000 or $14,000 than any country in the world. The next is Switzerland at 9,000.

Starting point is 00:03:00 And yet, when you look at longevity, we're down in about 40, 78, 79 years when a lot of countries are 84, 85, and 86 year life expectancies. Now, a lot of that has to do with we have more immigrants coming into the United States than any other country. Many of them are from poor countries. They don't have good health care. They come in ill, et cetera. But he's on to something that we need to address diet. We need to address big pharma. We need to address all these things.

Starting point is 00:03:30 And that apparently makes him an embarrassment. But this is the irony. What is an embarrassment to the Kennedy family was not Bobby Jr. working for Donald Trump. It really wasn't. It was Ted Kennedy in 1969, a U.S. senator driving off a bridge with Mary Joe Capechnie, allowing her to drown in the car, and then for 24 hours trying to fabricate a nexus narrative that was completely a lie so he could get out of responsibility and then using the Kennedy money and leverage in Massachusetts to get off with this with no criminal exposure at all.

Starting point is 00:04:13 Woman was killed and yet none of the Kennedy said that he was a predator or they he embarrassed them. We all know that JFK and Robert Kennedy were serial philanders. Nobody was embarrassed. As you know, Carolyn Kennedy was thinking about running for Senate when Hillary was stepping down to become Barack Obama's Secretary of State in 2009. She gave a series of interviews, and they were a disaster. She knew nothing. Almost every word she said was, you know, I'm thinking of politics, you know, you know, you know. And so she shortly dropped out, and I think Governor Patterson at the time appointed Kirsten Gillibrand instead. Part of the anger then against Bobby Kennedy is this illustrious family that's huge, 50, 60, 70 cousins.

Starting point is 00:05:09 Not one of them is elected official, not one that I know of. And how do they stay in politics? By appointments. They're ambassador of Austria. They're ambassador to Australia. They're ambassador to North Ireland, Northern Ireland, but they don't have political viability. You know what else is an embarrassment right now that Carolyn Kennedy should be worried about? Her son, Jack Schlossenberg.

Starting point is 00:05:37 What is he done? He gets on social media. He made fun of Melania Trump's voice the other day and tried to wear wig and ridicular. He went on just this week and tried to talk as if he was Darth Vader and, make fun of Bobby Kennedy's dysphonia, that problem he has with his voice. He suggested that he would like to impregnate J.D. Vance's wife. He's completely out of control. I haven't heard any of the Kennedy say, we have to distance himself. So what I'm getting out is this is a bankrupt family, and Bobby Kennedy is no angel, and he says a lot of things that are crazy, but the central thesis,

Starting point is 00:06:20 Too much money is being spent for two little returns and we're not a healthy country. We better look at ways has merit. And it's not something that the family, given all of their skeletons in the closet, should completely distance themselves from because we know what the real reason of the embarrassment is. He's talking and allied with Donald Trump. That's it. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hanson for The Daily Signal.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Kennedys Can Handle Scandal—But Draw the Line at RFK Jr.

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