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Conspiracy-minded candidate says he would resolve any questions about the terrorist plot.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is playing to his conspiracy-minded base days after a disastrous response to questions about his past.
The independent candidate for president, who has long stoked conspiracy theories about vaccines and other matters, turned Friday to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — promising he would “open the files” to address lingering questions about the plot.
Kennedy said in a series of posts on X that he was motivated to comment on Sept. 11 by a recent 60 Minutes report that revisited long-standing speculation about whether anyone in the Saudi government had advance knowledge of the terrorist plot.
The candidate said “it’s hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t,” and he blamed U.S. government dishonesty for the uncertainty.
“As President I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates,” he said. “But I can promise is that I will open the files and usher in a new era of transparency.”
The comments came at a difficult point for the candidate. He was the subject of a recent Vanity Fair profile that included extensive details about past drug use, allegations he sexually assaulted a nanny in the late 1990s and ate dog meat. In a later interview, he denied eating dog meat but sidestepped questions about the assault and admitted to a checkered past.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is playing to his conspiracy-minded base days after a disastrous response to questions about his past.
The independent candidate for president, who has long stoked conspiracy theories about vaccines and other matters, turned Friday to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — promising he would “open the files” to address lingering questions about the plot.
Kennedy said in a series of posts on X that he was motivated to comment on Sept. 11 by a recent 60 Minutes report that revisited long-standing speculation about whether anyone in the Saudi government had advance knowledge of the terrorist plot.
The candidate said “it’s hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t,” and he blamed U.S. government dishonesty for the uncertainty.
“As President I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates,” he said. “But I can promise is that I will open the files and usher in a new era of transparency.”
The comments came at a difficult point for the candidate. He was the subject of a recent Vanity Fair profile that included extensive details about past drug use, allegations he sexually assaulted a nanny in the late 1990s and ate dog meat. In a later interview, he denied eating dog meat but sidestepped questions about the assault and admitted to a checkered past.
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