Liberal media outlets melt down over RFK Jr. endorsing Trump: ‘Betrays the Kennedy legacy’

Multiple mainstream media outlets launched an assault on Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he announced the suspension of his campaign and his endorsement of former President Trump.

Outlets like CNN sounded the alarm that Kennedy’s flip to Trump will significantly help the former president’s re-election campaign, while others like the Washington Post and Politico published entire pieces simply belittling the candidate.

"By endorsing Trump, RFK Jr. betrays the Kennedy legacy," blasted the headline to Washington Post associate editor and columnist Karen Tumulty's opinion piece.

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Kennedy announced his decision at a press conference in Phoenix on Friday, telling reporters, "I've made the heart-wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump. This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes me, and my children and my friends."

The candidate accused the Democratic Party of waging "continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself," and running "a sham" Democratic primary election that he said prevented him from having a fair shot at the White House.

He also called out the media, saying its "censorship" of his campaign contributed to the evaporation of his path to the White House.

The Post’s Tumulty punished Kennedy with a searing column about how he has betrayed his family’s legacy throughout his life and has stayed true to form with this decision.

"His bizarre campaign for president this year — with its revelations that he had a dead worm in his brain and once left the carcass of a bear cub in Central Park — was an embarrassment. But his