Former Presidential hopeful RFK Jr. appeared in Donald Trump’s election rally in Arizona hours after dropping out of the White House race as Trump announced plans to make an independent commission to investigate the assassination attempts on US presidents after winning the November elections in honor of RFK Jr., whose uncle John F. Kennedy and father Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated during their service to the nation.
RFK Jr.’s uncle JFK was assassinated during his first presidential term in 1963, while his father was killed as a Democratic candidate during his 1968 presidential campaign.
While introducing RFK Jr., Trump recalled his own assassination attempt and told his supporters that RFK called him after the attack. The former president also noted that the Kennedy family has long been the victim of political violence in the United States, which makes RFK Jr. aware of all the risks that our leaders face.
Trump went on to say that RFK Jr. himself faced threats during his recently concluded presidential race, but the “Harris-Biden administration” never gave him the security he needed.
That is why, Trump continued, he will make an independent commission that will release all the missing documents related to JFK’s assassination while also investigating his own assassination attempt.
The Republican presidential candidate also praised RFK Jr. for running an exceptional presidential campaign despite being denied the platform of the Democratic party. Trump said that RFK Jr. would have defeated Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries had he been given a proper chance to run for the office.
RFK Jr.’s campaign inspired an overwhelming number of Americans, Trump continued, as he raised important issues that have always been ignored. Seeing these efforts, both JFK and RFK will be proud of him, Trump concluded.
RFK Jr. decided to drop out of the presidential race on August 23, just ten weeks before the elections, reportedly after striking a backdoor deal with the former president that he would be given an important role in the next Trump administration.
When RFK Jr. was still in the race, Trump was asked if he could consider giving him a role in his administration in exchange for the endorsement, to which Trump replied, “I probably would.”
While surveys suggest that the endorsement will favor Trump in winning over moderate voters, some political analysts, like Ronald Brownstein, believe that it is likely to hurt the former president in the long run.
