{"id":1957434,"date":"2023-06-26T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-hosts-convicted-sex-predator-on-his-podcast-to-praise-putin\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:44:16","slug":"rfk-jr-hosts-convicted-sex-predator-on-his-podcast-to-praise-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-hosts-convicted-sex-predator-on-his-podcast-to-praise-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. invites sex predator on podcast to praise Putin."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Frfk-jr-hosts-convicted-sex-predator-on-his-podcast-to-praise-putin%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=1957434&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--><h2>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hosts Controversial Guest on Podcast<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Sex offender Scott Ritter and 2024 candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (edited from Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democratic presidential candidate <strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong> on Sunday hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-56-of-voters-oppose-biden-admins-plan-to-end-title-42\/\" title=\"Poll: 56% Of Voters Oppose Biden Admin\u2019s Plan To End Title 42\u00a0\">convicted child sex predator<\/a> on his podcast to defend Russian president <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kennedy&#8217;s guest was <strong>Scott Ritter<\/strong>, a former United Nations weapons inspector who served jail time in 2011 after exposing himself to a cop posing as a 15-year-old girl. The sex offender was brought on to discuss &#8220;Putin&#8217;s Wagner Crisis&#8221; as the leader of a Russian mercenary group turned against the authoritarian leader. Ritter has predicted that Putin &#8220;will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The podcast episode comes as Kennedy has been surging in the polls as voters grow weary of the prospect of a second term for President Joe Biden, who will turn 81 later this year. Nearly two-thirds of Democratic voters say they would consider backing Kennedy over Biden, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-seriously-should-we-take-marianne-williamson-and-robert-f-kennedy-jr-against-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent<\/a> CNN survey.<\/p>\n<p>During the show, Ritter slammed the Russian mercenary leader who turned against Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, calling him &#8220;a traitor&#8221; who &#8220;stabbed Russia in the back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ritter and Kennedy also speculated that the CIA could be behind the Russian coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that eventually they&#8217;re going to show that [Prigozhin] was influenced by foreign powers to carry out a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat designed to collapse the government of Vladimir Putin,&#8221; Ritter said. Kennedy responded that there was &#8220;chatter on the internet that the CIA was behind this insurrection as a regime change, but, you know, who knows whether it&#8217;s true or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, who during the Iraq war gained fame as an outspoken critic of the Bush administration, is a controversial figure due to his criminal history and his strong support for the Putin regime. In 2009, Ritter was arrested after masturbating on a webcam in front of a police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl. He served jail time for the incident and was required to register as a sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that conviction, he was also arrested in 2001 for arranging meetings with undercover officers posing as minors online.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, who recently completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-hosts-convicted-sex-predator-on-his-podcast-to-praise-putin\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. invites sex predator on podcast to praise Putin.\">month-long propaganda tour<\/a> of Russia, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/churchill\/article\/scott-ritter-finds-new-audience-putin-s-russia-18130243.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Putin &#8220;will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders of all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year, Ritter dropped out as a speaker at the Libertarian Party anti-war rally after uproar over his attendance, the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-disagreement-over-a-pedophile-upended-a-libertarian-anti-war-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The Quincy Institute, an isolationist think tank, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/quincy-institute-yanks-analysis-from-child-molester-amid-uproar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2021<\/a> also pulled an article he wrote for its website.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter has also been embraced by many libertarian and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-enlists-nuclear-disarmament-proponents-to-study-icbm-alternatives\/\" title=\"Biden Enlists Nuclear Disarmament Proponents To Study ICBM Alternatives\">anti-war activists<\/a> on both the right and left. Former Fox News host Andrew Napolitano and Russian defector Tara Reade\u2014known for accusing Biden of sexual assault\u2014urged the Libertarian Party to keep Ritter on as a speaker. Ritter also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/ron-paul-institute-hosts-un-weapons-inspector-who-was-jailed-on-child-sex-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke<\/a> last year at a conference hosted by former Libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently featured Scott Ritter, a convicted child sex predator and former UN weapons inspector, on his podcast. 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