Lawrence: RFK Jr. is 'the Jeffrey Dahmer of the animal kingdom'

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Jack Smith asks an appeals court to revive the Trump classified documents case. Also, the Harris-Walz campaign builds on its DNC momentum with 71 days until Election Day. And Trump-backed Ohio Senate nominee Bernie Moreno supports a federal abortion ban. Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Michael Tyler, Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Robert Kennedy Jr., the Jeffrey Dahmer of the Animal Kingdom, has horrified his family,
0:06.7	almost as much as Jeffrey Dahmer horrified his family.
0:11.0	By endorsing the most horrifying Republican presidential nominee in history, the only president
0:17.0	who was more of a criminal in the White House than Richard Nixon, who Robert Kennedy Jr.
0:22.0	His father tried to keep out of the presidency
0:25.3	by running against him until Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, which instantly and it seemed permanently created a beatific glow around the name Robert Kennedy,
0:38.4	a name which his son has now fully disgraced.
0:45.0	Robert Kennedy Jr.'s younger sister, Carrie Kennedy said, quote,
0:48.4	I'm outraged and disgusted by my brother's gaudy, an obscene embrace of Donald Trump and his flagrant and inexplicable effort
0:59.3	to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father's memory.
1:05.0	Robert Kennedy Jr. told many lies in his speech announcing his endorsement of
1:12.2	Donald Trump, including this one.
1:14.3	Quote, the mainstream media networks maintain a near perfect embargo on interviews with me, end quote, over a year ago, on July 12th, 2023, I issued a public
1:29.0	invitation to Robert Kennedy Jr. to appear on this program at the time of his choosing and he never chose to do that.
1:38.0	If he does show up, I'll make it easy on him by giving him the first question ahead of time.
1:44.8	I'll give it to him right now.
1:45.8	It's a new question that I didn't have.
1:49.4	Until I read an article by Kurt Anderson, published in the Atlantic this weekend in which Kurt
1:53.9	Anderson describes buying cocaine from his college classmate Bobby Kennedy
1:58.8	when they were both freshman at for doing what Bobby Kennedy did.
2:13.2	At the end of his article, titled R.F.K. Jr.
2:17.0	was my drug dealer.
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