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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | What Would RFK Sr. Do?

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down for day one of his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services. With his conspiracy theory views, anti-vax positions, and general lack of qualification for the job, several Kennedy family members have spoken out against his confirmation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6

about something that would be really that's almost shakespearean right if it weren't so downright

0:36.8

sad and that is the tragic downfall

0:38.6

of RFK Jr. Hear me out, not at the hands of political adversaries, but by his own family

0:43.2

and his own allies. I want you to think about Camelot for a moment. Think about the Kennedy name.

0:48.8

Once synonymous with American royalty, with legacy, with power, with public service, is now turning inward,

0:56.4

cannibalizing one of its very own.

0:59.3

And it's not just the family.

1:00.4

Rupert Murdoch's Empire, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, the institutions

1:06.0

that once embraced rebels who fought the establishment are now sharpening their knives for

1:13.3

RFK Jr. This is no ordinary political hit job. No, this is personal right now. This is decades of

1:20.1

tension, grievances, and ideological warfare boiling over into a very public reckoning because

1:26.4

RFK Jr. wasn't just another member of the dynasty.

1:31.0

He was its problem child, the environmental crusader turned conspiracy theorist, the black sheep turned presidential candidate.

1:40.1

So let's start with his family, okay?

1:42.8

When Caroline Kennedy, one of the last torchbears of the Kennedy name, publicly denounced him,

1:49.8

it wasn't political.

1:51.3

It was deeply, painfully personal.

1:54.6

She called him a predator, that's a quote.

1:56.5

She accused him of betraying their shared legacy.

2:00.4

And she didn't do this behind closed doors.

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