{"id":32831,"date":"2024-04-09T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32831"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:38:54","slug":"whole-thing-is-an-epic-fraud-rfk-jr-official-admits-goal-is-to-elect-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/09\/whole-thing-is-an-epic-fraud-rfk-jr-official-admits-goal-is-to-elect-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Whole Thing Is an Epic Fraud&#8217;: RFK Jr. Official Admits Goal Is to Elect Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/presidential-candidate-robert-f-kennedy-jr-makes-a-campaign-announcement.jpg?id=49341289&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;quality=90&amp;coordinates=0%2C443%2C0%2C1557\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes a campaign announcement\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes a campaign announcement at a press conference on October 9, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo: Jessica Kourkounis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them,&#8221; said a Democratic National Committee spokesperson.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley\">JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apr 08, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<a href=\"https:\/\/giving.commondreams.org\/-\/XKQWGZVR\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy24.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;stated platform<\/a>&nbsp;in the 2024 presidential race centers on promoting an &#8220;honest government,&#8221; a &#8220;clean, healthy environment,&#8221; and the protection of civil liberties\u2014but his New York State director last week boiled down the Independent campaign&#8217;s true goal at a meeting with Republican voters: ensuring former President Donald Trump wins the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/08\/politics\/rfk-jr-new-york-biden-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speaking<\/a>&nbsp;at a meeting last Thursday, Rita Palma first checked to make sure there were &#8220;no Biden voters in the house&#8221; before telling her audience that her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/08\/politics\/rfk-jr-new-york-biden-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;No. 1 priority&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;is to ultimately take electoral votes away from President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Kennedy voter and the Trump voter,&#8221; said Palma, &#8220;our mutual enemy is Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>States including New York, California, and &#8220;most of the Northeast&#8221; are likely to vote for the Democratic president, she continued, but if Kennedy, whom Palma referred to as Bobby, is on the ballot in New York, the campaign could help &#8220;get rid of Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">video shows RFK Jr\u2019s NY director laying out a clear plan:<br><br>\u201cThe Kennedy voter &amp; the Trump voter\u2014our mutual enemy is Biden. \u2026 if nobody gets to 270, Congress picks the president. So who are they going to pick if it\u2019s a R Congress? They\u2019ll pick Trump.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQKDcEFUlm\">pic.twitter.com\/YQKDcEFUlm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsaacDovere\/status\/1777361935685517814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She urged the assembled GOP voters to give their &#8220;vote to Bobby and at least get rid of Biden and give those 28 electoral votes to Bobby rather than to Biden, thereby reducing Biden&#8217;s 270 [electoral votes].&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Two hundred seventy wins the election,&#8221; added Palma, who was hired by Kennedy&#8217;s campaign after she&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/08\/politics\/rfk-jr-new-york-biden-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canvassed<\/a>&nbsp;for Trump in 2016 and 2020. &#8220;If nobody gets to 270 then Congress picks the president, so who are they gonna pick if it&#8217;s a Republican Congress? They&#8217;ll pick Trump, so we&#8217;re rid of Biden either way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Political observers have noted in recent months that Kennedy has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/rfk-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drawn<\/a>&nbsp;support from right-wing billionaires, but Palma&#8217;s blunt description of her plan to &#8220;block Biden from winning the presidency&#8221; left critics stunned as the video of the event circulated on social media on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whole thing is an epic fraud. Kennedy is spouting Russian propaganda, is now openly betraying the country,&#8221; said political strategist Simon Rosenberg, referring to the candidate&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/news-and-politics\/rfk-jr-repeats-russian-propaganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent comments<\/a>&nbsp;about Russia&#8217;s claim that it aims to &#8220;de-Nazify&#8221; Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RFK is there to defeat Biden, help Trump win.  From the campaign itself.  <br><br>Whole thing is an epic fraud.  Kennedy is spouting Russian propaganda, is now openly betraying the country.  It\u2019s a big, disgusting, rancid Russian-MAGA op. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GN0KPn6RoR\">https:\/\/t.co\/GN0KPn6RoR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimonWDC\/status\/1777144125319688256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;RFK Jr.&#8217;s campaign is saying the quiet part out loud,&#8221; Matt Corridoni, spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/08\/politics\/rfk-jr-new-york-biden-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">told\u00a0<\/a><em>CNN<\/em>. &#8220;As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them: RFK Jr.&#8217;s campaign isn&#8217;t building a plan or a strategy to get 270 electoral votes, they&#8217;re building one to help Trump return to the Oval Office.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley\">JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/julia-conley\">Full Bio &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes a campaign announcement at a press conference on October 9, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.&nbsp; (Photo: Jessica Kourkounis\/Getty Images) &#8220;As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them,&#8221; said a Democratic National Committee spokesperson. 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