BBQ-ed ‘dog’, brain worms and texting nudes to friends: RFK Jr’s back story is even wilder than you thought

In April, the Kennedy family made clear who they prefer in the 2024 presidential race. And it wasn’t one of their own.

The storied political family has produced one president,two senators, several House members, and one Robert F Kennedy Jr.

At least 15 members of the family officially endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and not RFK Jr, their environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist relative who is now running for president.

Kerry Kennedy, the niece of President John F Kennedy and the sister of RFK Jr, said as she introduced the president at the Martin Luther King Jr Recreation Centre in Philadelphia: “We want to make crystal clear our feeling that the best way forward for America is to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to four more years.”

Saying that it would be a vote for “our democracy and decency,” she added: “Nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden. That’s right, the Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”

Even as she rejected her brother and his fledgling campaign for president, she made no mention of him by name.

Last week, Kennedy was left out of that infamous debate between Biden and Trump.

But the 70-year-old independent political candidate made the best of things, taking part in an interview with TV personality Phil McGraw broadcast that same night.

“Yeah, I have a perception problem, particularly in the mainstream media,” he told Dr Phil in the interview, noting that some voters may see him as a “lunatic.”

But how was that perception created? Another sister of Kennedy’s once admitted decades ago that her brother sometimes says “some crazy s***.”

Kennedy appeared in an HBO documentary 20 years ago regarding the dangers of building a nuclear plant