{"id":57493,"date":"2024-08-25T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57493"},"modified":"2024-08-25T00:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T00:03:16","slug":"rfk-jr-betrays-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57493","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. betrays his family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. should be damn glad his father cannot emerge from the ground at Arlington National Cemetery and give his son the whoopin&#8217; he has earned.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy decided to suspend his presidential campaign and then did the unthinkable: He endorsed the Republican Party&#8217;s twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted felon nominee for president of the United States &#8230; Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Junior, the scion of the nation&#8217;s premier family of partisan Democrats, turned his back on the principles championed by his forebears, namely his father, Robert F. Kennedy, his uncles JFK and Sen. Edward Kennedy and a host of aunts, siblings and cousins.<\/p>\n<p>I am scratching my noggin over this endorsement. So help me, it makes zero sense.<\/p>\n<p>RFK Jr. long has fancied himself as a man of action. He developed a nice environmental law practice and has been at the forefront of environmental causes almost since his graduation from law school. Trump doesn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s rear end about the environment.<\/p>\n<p>And yet RFK Jr. is now backing the disgraced former POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>What does RFK Jr.&#8217;s endorsement mean in terms of the election outcome? Probably not enough to matter. I won&#8217;t waste any time seeking to evaluate that particular consequence.<\/p>\n<p>I only can imagine what Junior&#8217;s sainted mother, Ethel, must be thinking as she watches her son spit in the face of her beloved husband and throw his support behind a moron who stands before the nation and the world as the Republicans&#8217; only nominee ever convicted of multiple felonies.<\/p>\n<p>I may never catch my breath over this one!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. should be damn glad his father cannot emerge from the ground at Arlington National Cemetery and give his son the whoopin&#8217; he has earned. Kennedy decided to suspend his presidential campaign and then did the unthinkable: He endorsed the Republican Party&#8217;s twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted felon nominee for president of the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57493\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RFK Jr. betrays his family<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2460,7419,3930],"class_list":["post-57493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jfk","tag-maga","tag-rfk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57494,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57493\/revisions\/57494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}