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Hope blooms on X as Trump invites RFK Jr. on stage: ‘This is where we right the ship’

August 24, 2024 | | Print Article

After endorsing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this Friday afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined the former president at his rally in Glendale, Arizona, where he was warmly received.

“Tonight I’m very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible champion for so many of these values that we all share,” Trump said as he introduced RFK to the crowd.

“For the past 16 months, Bobby has run an extraordinary campaign for president of the United States. I know because he also went after me a couple of times,” he added.

After taking the stage, RFK delivered a brief speech of his own. He began by describing a call he had with Trump following the assassination attempt last month on the former president.

“We talked not about the things that separate us — because we don’t agree on everything — but about the values and the issues that bind us together,” he said. “One of the issues he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic.”

“Our children are now the unhealthiest, sickest children in the world. Don’t you want healthy children? Don’t you want the chemicals out of our food? Don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption? That’s what President Trump told me he wanted,” he added.

According to RFK, the two also discovered during the call that they agreed on foreign policy.

“[Trump] said he didn’t want any more $200 billion wars in Ukraine—that we could use that money back here in the United States,” he said. “The best way to build a safe America is to rebuild our industrial base and the middle class in this country.”

“Don’t you want a president who’s going to get us out of wars and rebuild the middle class in this country?” he added.

Listen to RFK’s full speech below:

Taking a stab at the authoritarian Democrat Party, he also spoke of agreeing with Trump on the need to “end censorship” and “protect America’s freedoms.”

“[Trump] told me that he wanted to end censorship because the whole basis of American democracy is the free flow of information,” Kennedy said. “We know that a government that can silence its opponents has a license for any atrocity.”

“Can you think of any time in history when the people who were censoring were the good guys? They’re always the bad guys because it’s always the first step down that slippery slope to totalitarianism. Don’t you want a President who’s going to protect America’s freedoms and protect us against totalitarianism?” he added.

He concluded by reiterating his desire for a healthier world.

“I want to ask you again: don’t you want a safe environment for your children?” Kennedy said. “Don’t you want to know that the food you’re feeding them is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease? Don’t you want a President who’s going to make America healthy again?”

Responding to all that happened, many expressed feeling impressed and amazed by Trump and Kennedy coming together:

During the rally, Trump also promised that he would establish an independent Commission on Assassinations in Kennedy’s honor and release all the government documents on the assassination of RFK’s uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.

Listen:

Prior to speaking at the rally, Kennedy announced elsewhere that he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump.

“Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place primarily, and these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump,” he said. “The causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine, and the war on our children.”

Listen:

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