Jack Schlossberg defends criticism of RFK Jr.’s presidential bid

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By Jesse O’Neill

President John F. Kennedy’s solely grandson defended his criticism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid Tuesday, insisting that he “stands by” calling his run embarrassing.

Jack Schlossberg, 30, was requested a few July social clip the place he blasted Kennedy’s marketing campaign as “a humiliation,” throughout an look along with his mother, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, on NBC’s “As we speak.”

Within the clip, the Democratic scion accused the presidential hopeful of “buying and selling in on Camelot, superstar, conspiracy theories and battle for private acquire and fame.”

 “I’m very glad I did it. I stand by what I mentioned, um, in my video,” Schlossberg informed host Savannah Guthrie.

“I really like my household, and I’m very pleased with our legacy of public service,” he continued.

“I believe Joe Biden is a implausible president. I believe on each challenge from, uh, the financial system, well being care, local weather change, civil rights, his file speaks for itself.”

Kennedy, 65, the White Home’s Australian ambassador, additionally weighed in with a dig at her cousin when requested if the household rift was “difficult.”

“Not difficult … As a result of I do know what I believe. I do know what Jack thinks. I do know what Bobby Kennedy thinks, so it’s uncomplicated,” she mentioned, suggesting that her uncle, the slain lawyer normal, wouldn’t approve of his son’s candidacy.

Schlossberg made headlines in July when he accused Robert Kennedy Jr. of working for the Democratic nomination for “self-importance.”

“I’ve listened to him. I do know him. I don’t know why anybody thinks he needs to be president,” he mentioned of Kennedy Jr., who’s his grandfather’s nephew.

Kennedy, 69, had traded in conspiracy theories and false statements earlier than launching a bid to unseat Biden.

He has claimed, with out proof, that vaccines trigger autism, Wi-Fi causes most cancers and that chemical compounds within the water provide can flip kids transgender.

Kennedy has additionally asserted that COVID-19 is a genetically engineered bioweapon which will have been “ethnically focused” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese language folks.

The environmental lawyer is the one notable Democrat difficult Biden’s re-election bid, even because the overwhelming majority of social gathering voters imagine he’s too previous to serve one other time period.

If Biden had been re-elected, he could be 86 on the finish of his presidency.

Kennedy presently has the assist of 12% of Democratic voters, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Schlossberg and Kennedy appeared on the morning present to spotlight the Kennedy Basis’s Profiles in Braveness award recipients — 5 bipartisan feminine South Carolina lawmakers who banded collectively to battle abortion restrictions, and the leaders of Japan and South Korea — and to debate their re-enactment of JFK’s well-known three-mile swim within the Solomon Islands throughout World Warfare II.