RFK Jr. endorses Trump at Arizona rally to dismay of Kennedy family: ‘Sad ending to a sad story’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Donald Trump onstage in Arizona, shortly after the independent suspended his campaign and threw his support behind the Republican former president.

Kennedy got a rock star’s welcome at an arena in the battleground state city of Glendale on Friday, complete with pyrotechnics and a Foo Fighters song blasting.

Onstage, Trump praised RFK Jr., who he said “brought together people from across the political spectrum grounded in the values of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, a great man, and his uncle John F. Kennedy,” and promised to create a commission to investigate presidential assassinations that would release any remaining classified information on the JFK assassination.

The crowd then began chanting, “Bobby! Bobby!”

Kennedy said he didn’t agree with Trump on everything, but wanted to support his campaign, believing it would tackle issues on health and foreign policy.

“Our children are the unhealthiest, sickest in the world. Don’t you want healthy children? Don’t you want the chemicals out of our food?” Kennedy asked the crowd. “That’s what President Trump told me that he wanted.”

“He also told me he wanted to end the grip of the neocons on U.S. foreign policy,” Kennedy continued. “He said he didn’t want any more $200bn wars in Ukraine that we could use that money back here in the United States.”

The reception from the Kennedy family itself was much less enthusiastic.

A Friday statement from members of the Kennedy familycalled the endorsement a “betrayal.”

“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise, and national pride,” the statement reads, adding that the alliance with Trump is “a sad