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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been viewed by many as a potential spoiler in the upcoming 2024 election – siphoning away votes which might have ordinarily gone to the Democratic nominee.
Accordingly, the erstwhile Democratic presidential contender – who flipped his candidacy to an independent bid last fall when it became clear Democrats were going to anoint Joe Biden their nominee – has been perceived by many as helping GOP nominee Donald Trump. In fact, battleground polling published prior to Biden’s ouster from the Democratic ticket lent credence to that notion.
Kennedy made it clear this week, however, he is not afraid to throw barbs at Trump.
During an interview with Piers Morgan, RFK Jr. criticized the former president for suggesting that JP Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon – or Blackrock chief executive Larry Fink – might wind up as his Treasury secretary in 2025 in the event he is elected.
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Dimon, of course, was a supporter of former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in her GOP primary bid against Trump. And Fink? He’s a self-described “proud globalist” whose investment firm has pushed radical left-of-center agendas.
“Fink is a longtime Wall Street Dem, touted as a Treasury secretary for Dem presidents going back to Barack Obama,” author Charles Gasparino wrote for The New York Post. “His people are all over the Biden White House.”
According to Kennedy, Trump’s consideration of either Dimon or Fink is “a bad signal” and “a vulnerability for president Trump.”
“People cannot take seriously his promise that he’s going to drain the swamp if he actually, once again, brings these swamp creatures in to run our government,” Kennedy told Morgan.
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President Trump campaigned in 2016 on draining the swamp, but instead he appointed a pharmaceutical lobbyist and CEO to run the Health and Human Services Department, a Verizon lobbyist to run the Federal Communications Commission, a former Goldman Sachs CIO to run the Treasury… pic.twitter.com/JyVOj1SuEh
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 23, 2024
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“President Trump campaigned in 2016 on draining the swamp, but instead he appointed a pharmaceutical lobbyist and CEO to run the Health and Human Services Department, a Verizon lobbyist to run the Federal Communications Commission, a former Goldman Sachs CIO to run the Treasury Department, an oil CEO to run the Interior Department, a coal lobbyist to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and so on,” Kennedy added in a post on X. “There’s words, and then there’s actions… and when it comes to Trump, they simply don’t match.”
Trump pushed back against the criticism, claiming on his Truth Social platform he “never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury.”
“I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the radical left,” Trump wrote.
Actually, it was Trump himself who told Bloomberg just last month Dimon was “somebody that I would consider.”
Oops …
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Bottom line? Kennedy Jr. is absolutely correct to raise the alarm about Trump’s appointments – and his prior (future?) willingness to wade into the swamp rather than drain it.
In fact, more “Republicans” need to express an interest holding Trump accountable on that front … as opposed to following the Haley model of trying to drag him even deeper into the fecundity.
Longtime members of our audience will recall this outlet repeatedly criticized Trump for caving to the D.C. establishment during his first term in office from 2017-2021 (see here, here, here and here for examples of our ire). More specifically, I blasted Trump for his abject failure to cut taxes for the middle class or reduce deficit spending – both of which were key components in this outlet’s decision to endorse libertarian Jo Jorgensen for president in 2020.
“Contrary to his campaign promises, Trump was absolutely terrible on these bread and butter fiscal issues,” I wrote back in 2022. “In fact he stayed terrible on those issues right up to the bitter end of his administration.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina and before that he was a bass guitarist and dive bar bouncer. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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6 comments
That poor brain worm really did starve to death.
Well, Kennedy has Trump on that. One of my earliest clues, of many, that Trump was not going to be the President we hoped he would be, was when he non-stop began selecting, hiring, nominating, and appointing Swamp creatures to important positions. Trump faithful and apologists used several lame excuses to try and “justify” his reneging on promises to “drain The Swamp”. One was, “He’s keeping his friends close and his enemies closer”. Yeah, well, you aren’t going to accomplish much by surrounding yourself with obstructionists and in reality, he really didn’t accomplish anything of duration.
Another limp excuse was, “He’s exposing them”. Seriously? So, he “exposed” them? So tf what? All of them are still filthy rich and getting richer, still free, still alive and well, and still capable of doing harm to our country and way of life. Anyone who was paying attention already knew these people were not good or good for our country, but Trump signed them on at every opportunity. Some Trump apologists try and pretend that he “has learned from his mistakes” since leaving office. He hasn’t. A couple of years ago, he heavily endorsed his brother-in-Oprah, Doc Oz, for a Pennsylvania seat in the US Senate. There was at least one better, truly conservative, option in that primary; but Trump pushed Oz. Then, more recently, Trump was twisting arms to get Kevin McCarthy elected as US House Speaker. Again, McCarthy is a Swamp creature and any idiot would have known that.
RFK, Jr has Trump’s number on this issue, for sure. Still, I will be leaving the Presidential part of my ballot blank, just as I did in 2020. RFK, Jr, like any Kennedy from the Massachusetts political dynasty, hates our 2nd Amendment. Whoever the Democrats run (Kamala, Newsome, etc) will likewise hate The 2nd Amendment. Trump, well, he also promised throughout 2016 to protect our 2A rights and did the exact opposite. He did not earn my vote for another term. Let the chips fall where they may, because whoever the NWO/JWO selects for us, they are not in it to make our lives better.
I agree what the writer said about that lying two-faced jerk. But Also Kennedy is Trump’s puppet and quite frankly both these idiots are too old to run for office. Chase Oliver might have a small chance to win this, but the people in this country are too closed minded to vote this young candidate.
Trump’s achilles heel – to those who begrudgingly support him – is his vulnerability to ass kissing coupled with an enamor for other rich big shots & celebrities. It blinds him over and over again. He has so many knives sticking out of his back from all the people who knew how to puff him up, but then later betray him and the American people in favor of the globalists and neocons of the Swamp and the wider DC/corporate insider crowd…he practically looks like a stegasaurus.
I think Jimmy Dore said it best when he said “Trump drained the swamp and found his cabinet at the bottom”. The father of the vaccines, lockdowns and masks is now riding in on angels wings to save us all from sleepy Joe and Kameltoe.
What a Clown Show.
“Trump drained The Swamp and found his cabinet at the bottom.”
Love it!!!! So much truth in one sentence!