RFK Jr. Event Hosted by MAGA Group With Jan. 6 ties

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Source: Daily Beast

Updated May 03, 2024 5:02AM EDT
Published May 03, 2024 4:54AM EDT


Last Saturday, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appeared at an event that felt entirely on-brand for the anti-vaccine champion: a so-called “medical freedom conference” near Buffalo, New York. But the group that hosted Kennedy isn’t just skeptical of vaccines. It’s also skeptical of the fact that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

That group, Constitutional Coalition of New York State, has founders who not only have ties to Donald Trump but are also connected to the stop-the-steal movement through their activist network, which includes groups that had a presence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. It’s yet another instance of Kennedy—who is mounting one of the most well-funded third-party presidential threats in decades—serving as a peculiar bridge between his own anti-establishment movement and Trump’s.

Kennedy was ostensibly there as an invited guest to help raise money for the group, which claimed that he was not engaging in a presidential campaign event and was merely helping to educate attendees on “First Amendment rights.” Previously, the CCNYS posted calls to “Help The Trump Team!” on its Facebook page and its founders have links to two far-right groups whose members participated in the Jan. 6 riot and some key events leading up to it.

The Marching Patriots and Rolling Patriots—one protesting on foot, the other in automobile motorcades—got their start during the pandemic protesting lockdowns, and some of their members traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those groups got involved with the CCNYS founders at the same COVID protests where a local militia sometimes provided security.

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[FakeNoose]

1. The worm turns

Steve Bannon is the instigator behind Crazy Bob's candidacy. If I'm wrong I'll eat my hat.

[womanofthehills]

8. I think you are wrong

Kennedy said Cheryl told him if he was even on Bannon’s show again, she would leave him.

[NH Ethylene]

2. It looks like the plan to split the Dem vote might actually do the opposite!

And split the GOP vote, at least a bit.

[flamingdem]

3. Who is this guy?

RFK right left? Who why? Still don't understand the point of his candidacy but I suppose if he peels off Magats we're in luck.

[BaronChocula]

4. Maybe this RFK Jr. guy is some kind of mole

He seems to have a lot more magappeal than anything else.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Fine by me.

The more he associates with MAGA, the more votes he’ll take away from Trump instead of Biden.

[sop]

6. WTF happened to RFK Jr.?

Maybe someone in the Kennedy clan will go public and share a few insights about Jr.'s mental state, like Mary Trump did about her uncle.

[NanaCat]

7. They're not anti-Establishment.

They're anti-reality. The traitor media needs to start calling them what they are.