This is one of the most important speeches I’ve ever heard. Please read this shortened transcript and share this with everyone you can. RFK Jr. just explained why he left the Democrat party, ran for President - and is now dropping out to endorse President Trump. In the end - President Trump asked Bobby Kennedy to join him the day after they tried to murder him. That’s the REAL story behind this union.
Independents like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Vivek, Tucker, Tulsi, RFK Jr. and more are now aligning with President Trump and MAGA because they LOVE America and HATE the NWO and Communism.
No matter what your party - this is important for all to hear. THE TRUTH HAS NO AGENDA. All the big news networks (FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC) cut away from this speech today. Why? Because it’s the TRUTH.
RFK JR: “16 months ago, in April of 2023, I launched my campaign for President of the United States. I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father and my uncle [JFK] - the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote. I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960 and, back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution and of civil rights.
The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars. We were the party of Labor - of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the Party of Democracy.
As you know, I left the Democrat party because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It has become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and Big $$.
The Democrats abandoned democracy by canceling the Democrat primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president - [Joe Biden.] I left the party to run as an independent. The mainstream media derided my decision.
Conventional wisdom said that it would be impossible even to get on the ballot as an independent because each state poses an insurmountable tangle of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures. I would need over a million signatures and then I'd need a team of attorneys and millions of dollars to handle all the legal challenges.
The naysayers told us that we were climbing mount impossible. We proved them wrong and inspired a massive independent political movement.
Young Americans donated their lunch money and senior citizens gave up part of their social security checks. Our 50 state organization collected millions of signatures and more. No presidential campaign in political American political history has ever done that. And so I want to thank all of those dedicated volunteers and congratulate the campaign staff who coordinated this enormous logistical feat.
I'm here to tell you that I will not let allow your efforts to go to waste. Now, in an honest system, I believe that I would have won the election. My father and my uncle thrived with open debates, fair primaries, and with a truly independent media -untainted by government propaganda and censorship. With a system of nonpartisan courts and election boards, everything would be different.
I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become a little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media and for our government. And most sadly, for me, the Democratic Party, in the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party is dismantling it.
The DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself because they knew they could not win a fair election at the voting booth.
Each time that our volunteers turned in those signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court in state after state attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.
It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.
It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably bungled debate performance [Biden vs Trump] precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor also without an election. They installed a candidate [Kamala Harris] who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.
My uncle and my father both relished debate. They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.
They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic party presidential nominee like Vice President Harris has not appeared in a single interview or an unscripted encounter with voters for 35 days. This is profoundly undemocratic. How are people to choose when they don't know whom they are choosing and how can this look to the rest of the world?
My father and my uncle were always conscious of America's image abroad because of our nation's role as the template for democracy, the role model for democratic processes and the leader of the free world. Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing - no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago Circus.
In Chicago, a string of Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times on just on the first day. Who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate? In contrast, at the RNC convention President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.
I do interviews every day. Many of you have interviewed me. Anybody who asks gets to interview me some days. I do as many as 10 per day. President Trump, who actually was nominated and won an election, also does interviews daily.
How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle? We know the answers. They did it by weaponizing the government agencies. They did it by abandoning democracy. They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters.
What most alarms me isn't how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is they resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a US president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it's an attack on our most sacred right of free expression and that's the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest.
President Biden mocked Vladimir Putin's 88% landslide in the Russian election - observing that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press and that Putin prevented any serious opponents from appearing on the ballot. But here in America. the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot. And our television networks have exposed themselves as Democratic Party organs.
Representatives of those networks are in this room right now. I'll just take a moment to ask you to consider the many ways that your institutions have abdicated this sacred responsibility, the duty of a free press to safeguard democracy and to challenge the party in power. Your institutions have made themselves government mouthpieces and stenographers for the organs of power. You didn't alone cause the devolution of American democracy, but you could have prevented it.
The Democratic Party censorship of social media was even more of a naked exercise of executive power. This week, a federal judge upheld my injunction against President Biden calling the White House's censorship project “the most egregious violation of the first amendment in the history of the United States of America.”
Just 37 hours after he took the oath of office, pledging to uphold the constitution, President Biden and his White House opened up a portal and invited the CIA, FBI, DHS & IRS to censor me and other political dissidents on social media.
Even today, users who try to post my campaign videos to Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates community standards. The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles but today it's joined a systemic attack on democracy.
Governments and oppressors don't censor lies, they don't fear lies, they fear the truth.
Is the US really still a role model [around the world] for democracy or have we made it, you know, a kind of a joke?
Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler. A spoiler is someone who will alter the outcome of the election, but has no chance of winning. In my heart. I no longer believe that I have a realistic path of electoral victory in the face of this relentless, systematic censorship and media control. So I cannot in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to keep working their long hours, or ask my donors to keep giving, when I cannot honestly tell them that I have a real path to the White House.
Furthermore, our polling consistently showed that staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues - censorship, endless war and chronic disease.
Chronic disease, free speech, government corruption, and breaking our addiction to war are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party, run as an independent and now to throw my support to President Trump.
I want to say a word about the Ukraine war. The military industrial complex has provided us with a familiar comic book justification, like they do on every war, that this one is a noble effort to stop a super-villain, Vladimir Putin, to thwart his Hitler like march across Europe.
In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle initiated by the ambitions of the US neocons. I'm not excusing Putin for invading Ukraine. He had other options, but the war is Russia's predictable response to the reckless neocon project of extending NATO to encircle Russia, a hostile act.
The media rarely explains to Americans that we unilaterally walked away from two intermediate nuclear weapons treaties with Russia and then put nuclear missile systems in Romania and Poland - a hostile act. The Biden White House repeatedly spurned Russia's offer to settle this war peacefully.
The Ukraine war began in 2014 when US agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine and installed a hand-picked pro-western government that launched a deadly civil war against ethnic Russians [living in Ukraine.]
America walked away from a peace treaty, the Minsk agreement that had been negotiated between Russia and Ukraine by European nations. In 2022, President Biden sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine to force President Zelensky to tear up a peace agreement that he and the Russians had already signed. The Russians were withdrawing troops. That peace agreement would have brought peace to the region.
President Biden stated that his objective in the war was regime change in Russia.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin simultaneously explained that America's purpose in the war was to exhaust the Russian army to degrade its capacity to fight anywhere else in the world. These objectives, of course, have nothing to do with what they were telling Americans about protecting Ukraine's sovereignty. Ukraine is a victim in this war and it's a victim of the West.
Since then, we've squandered the flower of Ukrainian youth. As many as 600,000 Ukrainian kids and over 100,000 Russian kids, all of whom we should be mourning, have died. Ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed. The war has been a disaster for our country as well. We squandered nearly $200 billion already and these are badly needed dollars in our own communities in America.
The Nordstream pipeline sabotage and the sanctions have destroyed Europe's industrial base which formed the bulwark of US national security. A strong Germany with a strong industry is a much, much stronger deterrent to Russia.
[Biden] pushed Russia into a disastrous alliance with China and Iran. We're closer to the brink of nuclear exchange than at any time since 1962, and the neocons and the White House don't seem to care at all. Our moral authority and our economy are in shambles. The war gave rise to the emergence of BRICS which now threatens to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency. This is a first class calamity for our country.
Judging by her bellicose belligerent speech [at the DNC] in Chicago, we can assume that Kamala Harris will be an enthusiastic advocate for this and other neocon military adventures.
President Trump says that he will reopen negotiations with President Putin and end the war overnight as soon as he becomes president. This alone would justify my support for his campaign.
Trump asked to enlist me in his administration. Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, President Trump telephoned me a few minutes later and I met with him the following day. A few weeks later, I met again with President Trump and his family members and his closest advisor in Florida.
In a series of long intense discussions, I was surprised to discover that we are aligned on many key issues in those meetings. He suggested that we join forces as a unity party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals. That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and fiercely if need be, on issues over which we differ, while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in agreement.
I was a ferocious critic of many of the policies during his first administration and there are still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences. But, we are aligned with each other on other key issues like ending the forever wars, ending the childhood disease epidemic, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agencies out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans and interfering with our elections.
Following my first discussion with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to open similar discussions with Vice President Harris but she declined to meet or even to speak with me.
On the topic of chronic disease, we spend more on health care than any country on earth - twice what they pay in Europe. And yet we have the worst health outcomes of any nation in the world.
Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have. Two thirds of American adults and 50% of children suffer from chronic health issues. 50 years ago, that number was less than 1%. 74% of Americans are now overweight or obese. 120 years ago, when somebody was obese, they were sent to the circus. Obesity is unknown in Japan. The childhood obesity rate there is 3% compared to 50% for America.
Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. When my uncle [JFK] was president, I was a boy. Juvenile diabetes was effectively non-existent. A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career. Today, one out of every three kids who walk through his office door is diabetic or pre-diabetic and the mitochondrial disorder that cause diabetes is also causing Alzheimer's - which is now classified as diabetes. Chronic disease is costing this country more than our military budget every year.
There's been an explosion of neurological illnesses that I never saw as a kid. ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette's syndrome, narcolepsy, Asperger's autism.
In the year 2000, the autism rate was one in 1500. Now, autism rates in kids are one in 36. Nobody is talking about this.
One in every 22 kids in California has autism and this is a crisis - 77% of our kids are even too disabled to serve in the United States military. What is happening to our country? And why isn't this in the headlines every single day? There's nobody else in the world that is experiencing this - this is only happening in America.
Why are we letting this happen? Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? These are the most precious assets that we have in this country. How can we let this happen to them?
About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease - one out of every five. When I was a kid, that disease only affected late stage alcoholics who were elderly.
Cancer rates are skyrocketing for the young and the old. Young adult cancers are up 79%. One in four American women (25%) is on antidepressant medication. 40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis - 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall and half a million Children are on SSRI anti-depressants. So what's causing this suffering?
I'll name two culprits and the worst is ultra-processed food. About 70% of the American children's diet is ultra-processed. These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains and seed oils.
Many of the laboratory scientists who develop ultra-processed food in America worked for the cigarette industry - which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 1980s and deployed thousands of scientists to figure out new chemicals to make the food more addictive. These ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago. Humans aren't biologically adapted to eat them.
Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe but ubiquitous in American processed foods.
The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine and in our environment - pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs. This toxicity permeates every cell of our bodies. The assault on our children's cells and hormones is unrelenting.
Many of these chemicals increase estrogen because young children are ingesting so many of these hormone disruptors. America's puberty rate is now occurring early - particularly for girls. Breast cancer is also estrogen-driven and it now strikes one in eight women.
We are mass poisoning all of our children. We are systematically poisoning minorities across this country. The food stamp lunch program - about 70% of food stamps and 70 or 77% of school lunches - contain ultra-processed foods.
There's no vegetables, there's nothing that you would want to eat. We are just poisoning the poor citizens and that's why they have the highest chronic disease burden of anybody in our country and the highest in the world. These policies are destroying small farms and they're destroying our soils. It makes no sense if we want a healthy country.
The good news is that we can change all this and we can change it very, very quickly. America can get healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things.
First, we need to root out the corruption in our health agencies. Second, we need to change incentives in our health care system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy.
80% of NIH grants go to people from the processed food companies - who have conflicts of interest. They are all corrupted and conflicted individuals.
These agencies, the FDA, USDA, and CDC, all of them are controlled by giant for-profit corporations. 75% of the FDA's funding doesn't come from the taxpayer - it comes from Big Pharma.
With President Trump's backing. I'm going to change that. We're going to staff these agencies with scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding. We're going to make sure the decisions of consumers, doctors and patients are informed by unbiased science.
A sick child is the best thing for the pharmaceutical industry. When American children or adults get sick with a chronic condition, they are put on medications for their entire life.
Imagine what happens when Medicare starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1500 a month. It's now being recommended for children as young as six, for the condition of obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed 100 years ago. We must recommend a change in diet to treat obesity - and exercise - [not give them more medications.]
We could buy organic food for every American family, three meals a day and eliminate diabetes altogether. We're going to bring healthy food back to school lunches. We're going to stop subsidizing the worst foods with our agricultural subsidies. We're going to get toxic chemicals out of our food. We're going to reform the entire food system and for that, we need new leadership in Washington because unfortunately, both the Democrats and the Republicans are in cahoots with the big food producers, Big Pharma and Big Ag, which are among the biggest DNC donors.
Vice President Harris has expressed no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and neocon power and our children will be the ones who suffer most.
For twenty years, I have prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic disease crisis was one of the primary reasons for my running for president along with ending censorship and the Ukraine war.
It's the reason I've made the heart wrenching decision to suspend my campaign and to support President Trump.
I promise that within two years, we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically. Within four years, America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic and happier. I won't fail in doing this.
If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts this country will disappear. This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached my decision through deep prayer, through hard nosed logic.
President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy. Ultimately, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other. That's why I launched my campaign to unify America.
My dad and my uncle made such an enduring mark on the character of our nation. Not so much because of any particular policies that they promoted, but because they were able to inspire profound love for our country and to fortify our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals. They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans and to unify a national populist movement of Americans, blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans. They inspired affection and love and high hopes and a culture of kindness that continues to radiate among Americans from their memory.
That's the spirit in which I ran my campaign and that I intend to bring into the campaign of President Trump instead of vitriol and polarization. I will appeal to the values that unite us, the goals that we could achieve if only we weren't at each other's throats. The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children. If we all unite around that issue, now we can finally give them the protection, the health and the future that they deserve. Thank you all very much.”
RFK Jr.’s wife:
CHERYL HINES: “The decision has been made to suspend my husband's, Robert Kennedy Jr.'s, presidency and I'd like to extend a sincere, deeply heartfelt thank you to every person who has worked so tirelessly and lovingly on his campaign. They have accomplished feats that were said to be impossible. They have gathered over a million signatures, more than any candidate in history, and have achieved ballot access across the country despite the roadblocks and lawsuits that have been brought against them for the sole purpose of keeping Bobby off of the ballots so no one would even have the opportunity to vote for him.
I deeply respect the decision Bobby made to run on the principle of unity. Over the last year and a half, I have met some extraordinary people from all parties — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. It's been my experience that the vast majority of all parties are truly good people who want the best for our country and for each other. It has been an eye-opening, transformative, and endearing journey.”
RFK Jr.’s VP choice:
NICOLE SHANAHAN: “Kamala Harris is the ultimate puppet. My mother is from Communist China. I grew up hearing about what the famine was like. Price controls is exactly how you get to a famine. This is Communism 101.
Since President Obama, [the Democratic Party] has not run real people. They have selected amongst a very small group of individuals that they can control and dictate policy over. I don’t think Kamala Harris is somebody who will sit here and tell you how she feels. I think that human capacity of hers has long gone. What she now represents is corporatism and a huge amount of cronyism.
This is the part that worries me the most: she uses messaging in a way to get populations of young, unknowing, innocent people on these false virtue signal ambitions and take on policies that will really hurt them in the future.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We just had a very nice endorsement from RFK Junior. Bobby and I will be talking about that as we're heading out right after this. We're going to Arizona, where we'll be discussing that and a lot of other things, too. But I just want to thank everybody, and I want to thank Bobby. That was very nice, really very nice. That's big. He's a great guy, respected by everybody."
BTW - President Trump was good friends with JFK Jr. too.
God Bless America!
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