Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his third-party presidential bid on Friday and endorsed former President Donald Trump in his campaign for the White House this November.
“Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place […] and these are the principle causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,” Kennedy said at a press conference announcing his decision.
In his remarks, the now-former independent presidential candidate blasted Democrats for their war on free speech and embrace of censorship. He took specific aim at America’s regime-approved media for partaking in what he described as a “systemic attack on democracy.”
“The media justif[y] their censorship on the grounds of combatting ‘misinformation,’” Kennedy said. “But governments and oppressors don’t censor lies. They don’t fear lies; they fear the truth, and that’s what they censor.”
RFK Jr: “The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and Democratic principles, and it’s joined this systemic attack on Democracy.” pic.twitter.com/Vf0bZ9E5O8
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Kennedy also criticized Democrats for subverting “democracy” by arbitrarily declaring Kamala Harris as the party’s 2024 presidential nominee without input from voters. Rather than “saving democracy,” the Democrat Party is “dismantling it,” he argued.
The Democrat Party machine “deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail,” Kennedy said. “It ran a sham primary that was
