Simply once you thought U.S. politics couldn’t get any stranger (the presidential debate was solely final week), a brand new story emerges that in some way outdoes the bizarreness of its predecessor.
This time, the story comes courtesy of Impartial presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., whose latest profile in a Vainness Truthful article has raised quite a lot of eyebrows. The profile, which was revealed by Vainness Truthful on July 2, revealed that RFK Jr. had texted a photograph final yr to a buddy that confirmed him and an unidentified lady holding what seems to be a barbecued canine.
Unsurprisingly, the picture has prompted outrage on-line, leading to responses from each veterinarians and RFK Jr. himself. It’s a puzzling and disturbing growth within the presidential race, however is any of it true?
Did RFK Jr. truly barbecue a canine?
The Vainness Truthful article argues that the barbecued animal pictured alongside RFK Jr. is, in actual fact, a canine. After sourcing the picture, the outlet spoke to a veterinarian who mentioned the skeleton was in line with that of a canine, particularly mentioning its 13 pairs of ribs and the telltale “floating rib” present in canine.
Making issues worse for RFK Jr., Vainness Truthful discovered that the image was texted final yr to a buddy who was visiting Asia, with the presidential candidate suggesting they may take pleasure in a Korean restaurant that serves canine on the menu. It was additionally revealed by way of metadata that the picture was taken in 2010, the identical yr RFK Jr. was recognized with a parasitic tapeworm, which may come up after consuming uncooked or undercooked meats.
Whereas this context appears to counsel the animal was a canine, RFK Jr. has fiercely denied the allegations. Responding to the article in an interview on Breaking Factors, RFK Jr. described the profile as “rubbish,” and claimed the pictured animal was truly a goat he’d eaten whereas in Patagonia.
He doubled-down on the goat declare on social media, refusing the claims of the veterinarians and metadata and writing on X that Vainness Truthful has “joined the ranks of grocery store tabloids.” It wasn’t the one bombshell allegation within the profile, with Vainness Truthful additionally detailing an alleged occasion of sexual assault by the hands of RFK Jr., and talking with relations about his years of heroin abuse.
What does it should do with Kristi Noem?
The furore over the picture has concerned extra than simply RFK Jr., with legions of social media customers sharing their outrage whereas additionally connecting it to a latest story about Trump’s vice presidential candidate, Kristi Noem.
That case sadly additionally includes a canine, and got here to mild in April when Noem confusingly admitted to killing her household’s pet in her ebook No Going Again: The Reality on What’s Improper with Politics and How We Transfer America Ahead.
Noem recounted the story over a number of pages, claiming her feminine canine Cricket had misbehaved, and revealing she shot the animal after it had ruined a hunt.
Maybe the consensus ought to be that any aspiring politicians ought to be banned from being close to canine — or any animal, for that matter.
