Third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came under fire last week after a Vanity Fair article claimed that he posed for a photo showing him eating a dog.
In an appearance on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation show on July 2, the longshot presidential candidate said of the photo showing him and an unidentified woman pretending to devour an animal carcass on a spit that the animal was not a dog as Vanity Fair claimed but a goat.
According to Vanity Fair, Kennedy texted the 2010 photo to a friend traveling in Asia. A veterinarian told the magazine that based on the rib pairings on the carcass, the animal on the spit was a canine. Another expert told Vanity Fair that the picture was taken in Korea.
Kennedy told Chris Cuomo that the photo was taken during one of his annual kayaking trips to Futaleafu in the Patagonia region of Chile. He explained that everyone in Patagonia eats goat and that was what they were roasting on a spit.
The presidential candidate blasted the magazine’s hypocrisy for accusing him of “promoting misinformation” while publishing an article that was “just a dumpster of misinformation.”
Kennedy told Chris Cuomo that while he considers himself an “adventurous eater” who will “eat virtually anything,” there were three things that he would not eat – humans, monkeys, or dogs. Kennedy said he would eat anything else but could never bring himself to eat those three things.
Kennedy also slammed Vanity Fair in a post on X, saying the prestigious magazine had “joined the ranks of supermarket tabloids.”
He called out their so-called “experts” who claimed that the goat was a dog and the photo was from Korea and not Patagonia, adding that the magazine could “keep telling America that up is down if you want.”
Kennedy also lashed out at what he described as “garbage pail journalism,” which he suggested tried to “distract” from President Biden’s “cognitive deficits” while doing “little to elevate the national debate.”
