{"id":1910658,"date":"2023-04-06T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-announces-2024-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:01:51","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-announces-2024-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-announces-2024-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Announces 2024 Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frobert-f-kennedy-jr-announces-2024-presidential-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0405\/de7da5ef-dab5-40ea-aef5-e3bfd64bab2d\/audio.mp3?length=5739309&#038;duration=478\"><\/div>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well-known figure in environmental law and vaccine safety advocacy circles, announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election on April 5th. He submitted the necessary paperwork to run as a Democrat, according to an official Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to The Epoch Times, Kennedy criticized the partisan political landscape in the United States, claiming that it was more divided and toxic than ever before. Instead, he said that his campaign would focus on the common values that unite Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy is the second prominent figure to throw their hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination, following Marianne Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s father, the late Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-N.Y.), was assassinated while running for president in 1968, while his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Texas in 1963. Kennedy signaled his intention to run for the presidency earlier in March in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s campaign centers around his \u201cFreedom First\u201d message and his anger towards the so-called \u201celites\u201d. The candidate seeks to put an end to the perceived corruption between government and corporate power that he claims has damaged the American economy, polluted the environment, and endangered American values and freedoms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video_fit_container epoch_player\">\n<div class=\"player-container\" id=\"player-container-7eba0f15-4742-4830-b35d-631a136049d7\" data-id=\"player-7eba0f15-4742-4830-b35d-631a136049d7\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One issue that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to focus on heavily throughout his presidential campaign is vaccine safety. Kennedy has been critical of the current administration\u2019s policies relating to COVID-19, which he believes are harming Americans.<\/p>\n<p>He founded the not-for-profit health organization Children&#8217;s Health Defense, which is working to alleviate chronic health problems brought about by environmental issues, and he believes that the COVID-19 genetic vaccines are causing serious health problems.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy recently took part in an interview with the EpochTV program \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders\u201d. In it, he questioned the efficacy and safety of vaccines, citing research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2000, which he believes shows that vaccines had almost nothing to do with the 70-80% fall in mortality rates due to infectious diseases since 1900. Instead, he credited advancements in sanitation and transportation of food for the decline. Additionally, Kennedy believes that vaccines can inadvertently shorten people&#8217;s lives and make them less effective.<\/p>\n<p>Social media platforms, such as Instagram, have censored Kennedy&#8217;s content surrounding criticism of the COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue that Kennedy has been discussing is \u201cagency capture\u201d within the pharmaceutical industry. He accuses regulators of being co-opted by Big Pharma, resulting in compromised safety standards and corrupted clinical trials.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4717705\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in White Oak, Md., on July 20, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the same \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders\u201d interview, Kennedy expressed his concerns about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and proposed that it be subject to increased oversight to curb its abuses of power. In particular, he claimed that the CIA had been involved in various major events in history to manipulate people, such as sensory deprivation, fear and propaganda, and torture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video_fit_container epoch_player\">\n<div class=\"player-container\" id=\"player-container-428f8ee3-81c9-43a9-bd3e-2d8ba40eec05\" data-id=\"player-428f8ee3-81c9-43a9-bd3e-2d8ba40eec05\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Kennedy, under the leadership of Allen Dulles, the CIA became a \u201ctumor\u201d on the country of the United States. Kennedy accuses the agency of being a &#8220;government within a government&#8221; and implementing &#8220;mind control&#8221; techniques, such as spreading fear and propaganda, to manipulate people into doing their bidding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., best known for his positions on environmental law and vaccine safety, filed the paperwork to run in the 2024 race for president of the United States on April 5. He filed as a Democrat, according to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing. \u201cAmerica is enduring an apocalyptic tribal polarization more toxic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1247,"featured_media":1910659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4506,4156,7564,9883,5111,3849,8609],"class_list":["post-1910658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-4506","tag-announces","tag-bid","tag-jr","tag-kennedy","tag-presidential","tag-robert"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}