Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Elon Musk, venture capitalist David Sacks, former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard, and others for a Twitter Spaces interview Monday to discuss many of the issues he reckons should be at the forefront of the political debate going into the 2024 presidential election.
Kennedy, running for president as a Democrat, drew the ire of the liberal media for championing so-called “right-wing ideas and misinformation” during the interview, which had more than 64,000 active listeners during the live broadcast and over 1.8 million listeners tune in since.
The New York Times, in particular, took issue with Kennedy’s: expressed desire to close the U.S.-Mexico border; suggestion that there is a link between mass shootings and pharmaceutical drugs; claim that COVID-19 was “clearly a bioweapon”; and his criticism of Democrats’ penchant for for war.
Guns, drugs, and Big Pharma
Kennedy clarified that he is a “constitutional absolutist.”
The 69-year-old son of assassinated former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of assassinated former President John F. Kennedy stressed he knows firsthand the impact of gun violence but noted that the Supreme Court has made clear the meaning of the Second Amendment, which he would not impinge on.