Democrat-turned-Independent presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ended his White House bid on Friday in a big way, immediately endorsing former President Donald Trump and earning a big promise as well from the GOP nominee. During a rally speech in Glendale, Ariz., later in the evening, Trump vowed to form a committee on assassinations and pledged to release all remaining classified documents regarding the assassination of RFK Jr.’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy.
After slamming the Biden-Harris regime for denying RFK Jr. Secret Service protection — though his father, JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy Sr. was also assassinated roughly five years later — Trump, who survived an assassination attempt last month, made the announcement. “They will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month,” Trump noted. “But I tell you, I have never had more people ask me, ‘Please, sir, release the documents on the Kennedy assassination,’ and we’re going to do that.”
Trump also repeated his pledge to establish a panel of “top experts working with Bobby” that would investigate the cause of a “decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases.” He added: “We want every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life.”
Before bringing Kennedy on stage with him, Trump described his political movement as being “welcoming” to Democrats, the New York Post reported. “Our movement is not about Democrat versus Republican,” he said. “It’s about patriotism and common sense. That’s why we’re welcoming support for millions and millions of disaffected Democrats. And they are joining like wildfire now. We’re welcoming the support from millions of disaffected Democrats, independents, moderates, old-fashioned liberals who still believe in little things like borders.”
Earlier, Trump said, “For the past 16 months, Bobby has run an extraordinary campaign. I know because he went after me a couple of times — I didn’t like it.” He added: “His candidacy has inspired millions and millions of Americans, raised critical issues that have been too long ignored in this country and brought together people from across the political spectrum in a positive campaign grounded in the American values of his father, Robert Kennedy, a great man, and his uncle, President John F Kennedy. And I know that they are looking down right now, and they are very, very proud of Bobby. I’m proud of Bobby.”
During his brief remarks at the lectern, Kennedy noted that he spoke with Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pa. “One of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic,” he said, adding that the two discussed “not the things that separate us, because we don’t agree on everything, but on the values and the issues” they share. “Don’t you want healthy children? And don’t you want the chemicals out of our food? And don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption? And that’s what President Trump told me that he wanted,” Kennedy revealed.