Pak Sahafat – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a 69-year-old lawyer and the nephew of the assassinated former American president John F. Kennedy, on April 19, when announcing his candidacy for the 2024 US election from the Democratic Party, depicted a society full of differences and decaying from his country.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a 69-year-old lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of assassinated former US President John F. Kennedy, announced his candidacy for the 2024 US election in a packed auditorium at Park Plaza in Boston and in his nearly two-hour speech, he portrayed a society in decline and conflict that needed a unifying force from one of America’s most prominent political families.
He said: I have come here today to announce my candidacy for the presidency of the United States from the Democratic Party.
Kennedy noted that the goal of his presidential campaign would be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power.
Kennedy, who has supported anti-vaccine movements since the 2000s, has become one of the most prominent figures in the anti-vaccination movement as the founder of the Children’s Health Foundation, which is active in anti-vaccination efforts.
Although Kennedy describes himself as a staunch Democrat, his support of opposition to coronavirus vaccines has attracted some on the right.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, recently said in an interview with an American television network: Robert F. Kennedy can run for the presidency of the Republicans, and only Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump will be his rivals.
When Kennedy announced his candidacy for the 2024 election, he tried to create a balance between the Democrats and the Republicans and said: My goal during this campaign and the next administration will be for Americans to forget whether they are Republicans or Democrats and to remember that they are Americans.
He said that “we should focus on our shared values ​​rather than the issues that divide us.”
He said: I am not an ideal candidate for the presidency in normal times. Kennedy tried to differentiate himself from candidates who he said live their lives thinking they’ll be in the White House one day.
“Under normal circumstances, I would not run for president. But we are not under normal circumstances. I am witnessing my country being looted,” he said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was honest about his past in his speech and talked about his plans to end the role of big pharmaceutical companies in the US government and to make peace in Ukraine.
According to reports, Kennedy also had a reputation for drug abuse in the past. At the same time as his speech, Kennedy’s website revealed the six goals he is pursuing.
In explaining one of these goals, Kennedy describes “honest government” and says that large corporations with special interests have too much influence in the government agencies that are responsible for supervising these companies.
To reduce the influence of these companies in the US government, Kennedy said he would protect whistleblowers and prosecute officials who abuse the public trust.
Behind the scenes of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian youth are victims of the American policy to overthrow Putin’s government
In another part of his goals titled “Peace”, Kennedy stated his policy on Ukraine. He said: Diplomacy has never been truly tested. We will offer to withdraw our forces and nuclear missiles from Russia’s borders.
He argued that this would force Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine, and continued: UN peacekeepers will protect peace in the Russian-speaking eastern regions. We will end this war.
During his speech, the member of the Kennedy family said that the discussion about the war should be more precise. We cannot tell one side that they are Nazis and tell the other that they like Putin.
Kennedy argued that the US government should explain why it is helping Ukraine. He said: Bringing Russia closer to China is not in the national interest of America. It is not in our interest to do something that could lead America into a nuclear war.
He also added: We are in Ukraine for the right reasons. We are in this country to sympathize with the people of Ukraine who have been violently and illegally invaded. But he questioned the cost of American support to Kiev.
The American Democratic politician stated: We have money for wars and saving banks. But what happens to Americans who find themselves in dire straits?
Kennedy about the war in Ukraine by asking the question, is this war for the national interest of the United States? He said: The answer is that this war is not for the national interests of America. Some leading and respected people among our people, such as Henry Kissinger, Jack McLaur and Larry Wilkerson, have categorically said that this is not part of our national interest.
He stated: This war is not in the national interest of the American people. This war has brought Russia closer to China. This war is not in our national interest and may lead us to a nuclear exchange with a country that has more nuclear weapons than us.
This member of the Democratic Party and Biden’s party said once again about the goals of the current American government in this war: As I said, our goals are humanitarian and this is a good reason to end the war and bloodshed or minimize it, but the recent US President Joe Biden, one of our goals is to at least change the regime of Vladimir Putin. This is the same strategy that took place in Iraq and it did not work for us, and many of the same people who are now around Biden have been talking about this goal even for a long time, who are looking for geopolitical ideas in Ukraine since 2014 and Lloyd Austin. The Minister of Defense validated Biden’s statements and announced that our goals in Ukraine are to weaken the military capabilities of the Russian military to fight anywhere in the world it wants to be.
He added: If this goal is correct, we should be informed about it, and if it is wrong, we should have a very good conversation about this with the President, the Minister of Defense and others to tell us exactly what they are doing.
The 2024 US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party also presented statistics and said: A quarter of Americans sleep hungry at night, 33,000 former American soldiers are homeless, and an average of 23 former soldiers commit suicide every day, and young Ukrainians are victims of the American policy to overthrow the Russian government.
Historical recognition of the creation of the ISIS terrorist group by the United States and the costs of the destruction of the United States
In the continuation of this long speech, Kennedy called the American police corrupt, and then in a historic confession from a democratic politician in America, he said: We created ISIS. We sent two million refugees to Europe and caused the destabilization of democracy there that led to Brexit. This is the cost of the Iraq war. We spent 8 trillion dollars there and 16 trillion dollars for shutdowns, which totaled 24 trillion dollars. This spending has done nothing but destroy the middle class in America and we need to end this situation.
This American politician continued to criticize America’s foreign policy and admitted: Our strategy has always been to use military weapons to show power, that is, to use the army to show power around the world. But China has done something different. They adopted my general strategy philosophy. We spent eight trillion dollars to bomb bridges, ports, roads and hospitals, but they spent eight trillion dollars to build bridges, ports, roads and hospitals.
This American politician continued to criticize American foreign policy and added: They (China) are taking our place as trading partners in most African and Latin American countries. Brazil switched from the dollar to the Chinese currency, and so did Saudi Arabia.
Robert Kennedy’s chances in the 2024 election
America’s ABC News says that an interview with some of the approximately 2,000 participants in Kennedy’s speech showed that people from different political spectrums support him. It seems that Kennedy’s opposition to the corona vaccine is the reason why some people support him.
Kennedy will now face Marian Williamson, a Democratic writer. Williamson was nominated for the presidency of the United States on March 4. Kennedy is likely to compete with US President Joe Biden as well. Biden has repeatedly said he plans to run for re-election in 2024, but has yet to officially announce his candidacy.
The White House declined to comment on Kennedy’s nomination as a presidential candidate, and White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre referred to the HATCH Act when asked by reporters for comment. A law that prohibits the political activities of US government employees.
In his speech in Boston, Kennedy did not mention vaccines or question their effectiveness, but said he would prioritize research into chronic diseases if elected president.
This American politician has been banned from publishing content on social media such as YouTube and Instagram due to spreading false information about vaccines and the Corona epidemic. Instagram blocked his account in 2021 for publishing misleading content about the vaccine.
A new poll by the USA Today media and Suffolk University shows that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, has been able to attract a large number of voters to Biden and support them in the first phase of his election campaign.
When the son of former American legend Robert F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the White House earlier this month, 14 percent of Biden supporters said they would support Kennedy in 2020, according to the poll.
A telephone poll of 600 2020 Biden voters, identified through national and state polls between 2020 and 2022, found that 67 percent still support Biden.
In this poll, 14% of Biden voters supported Kennedy in 2020, while Marian Williamson, another Democratic candidate, managed to get 5% of Biden’s supporters.
The poll also showed that 13 percent of Biden voters in 2020 have not yet decided whether to support him again or support a new candidate.