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Caroline Kennedy wrote a disappointing letter to the main senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from the broadcast of dangerous views on vaccinations and who is inappropriate to be the Minister of Health of the Nation.
He called on legislators to question Mr Kennedy in the confirmation of confirmation Wednesday and Thursday to reject his candidacy. He mentioned his lack of experience, misleading views on vaccines and personal characteristics. In the letter, he described how he led other members of the family “under the course of drug addiction”.
“His basement, his garage and the dormitory room were the centers of the action where medicines were available and enjoyed how he put the chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” Ms Kennedy wrote. “It was often a perverted scene of despair and violence.”
Her letter first referred to The Washington Post.
Mrs Kennedy expressed a particular anger about the new notifications in his Senate ethics agreement, which he described as describing how his “crusade against his vaccination has benefited in other ways.”
He referred to Mr Kennedy’s decision to maintain the financial share of the difference against Merck, which makes a basic human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) administered to protect against cervical cancer.
“In other words, he is willing to enrich himself by refusing to access a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and has been safely administered to millions of boys and girls,” Kennedy writes.
As ambassador of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. In Australia, Ms Kennedy was actively involved in promoting the HPV vaccine, which put Australia on a course to eliminate cervical cancer. He was determined to persuade Mr Biden to extend the initiative of “Cancer Moonshot” in the Indo-Pacific region.
In her role as ambassador, Mrs Kennedy said she was reluctant to make public comments against Mr Kennedy, who began his presidential campaign in 2023 as a primary challenge to Mr Biden before running as an independent candidate. When Mr Kennedy threw his presidential offer, he approved Mr Trump, who, after winning the election, named Mr Kennedy as his choice for the Health Secretary.
After that, she broke with her cousin, saying that his views on vaccination were dangerous.
Her letter painted Mr. Kennedy as a charismatic figure, “willing to take risks and break the rules” and capable of attracting others through the power of his magnetic personality. He then attended a tragic story of Mr Kennedy’s influence on other family members.
“But the brothers and cousins that Bobby encouraged the course of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness and death,” he wrote, “while Bobby went for misleading, he is and deceives his life.”
Mr Kennedy’s younger brother, David died at Palm Beach County in May 1984 of the “multiple ingestion” of three drugs found in his body fluids, authorities said at that time.
Other relatives also spoke against Mr Kennedy, including his brother Joseph Kennedy II and his sister Kerry Kennedy, who described his comments about race and vaccines as “sad and false”.
On Tuesday, Jack Schlossberg, her son Ms Kennedy, who has also been criticized with Mr Kennedy, posted a video on his mother’s social media by reading the letter he had written.
“I am so proud of my courageous mother that she lived a life of dignity, integrity and service,” wrote Schlossberg.
Mrs Kennedy, in the letter she sent on Tuesday, gave her faith to overcome the drug dependence, which Mr Kennedy discussed extensively. With his own account, Mr Kennedy became addicted to heroin when he was 14, in 1968, as he struggled to face his father’s murder. In 1984, he acknowledged guilty of a felony of heroin and entered the treatment.
Mrs Kennedy was also harsh in criticism of her cousin’s defense against the vaccines, describing it as part of an addiction to attention and power.
“Bobby is moving into despair of sick children’s parents – he was vaccinated his own children while building a hypocritical discouraging other parents from their vaccination,” he wrote.
Ms Kennedy also stressed that “the conspiracy half truths she has said about vaccines” in relation to the 2019 measles event in Samoa, which he said “costs lives”.
The letter addressed senators who lead the committees who will revise his candidacy this week, including Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho. Ron Wyden, Democrat from Oregon. Bill Cassidy, a Republican of Louisiana and Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermond.
He noted that the family is near and that the speech was difficult. She also put her cousin to use the heritage of the family’s family’s tragedy for political gain. Mr Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated during a campaign for president in 1968. His father and uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was shot dead in Dallas in 1963.
Robert F. Kennedy younger “distorted President Kennedy’s legacy to promote his own failed presidential campaign – and then ran to Donald Trump for work,” the letter said. “Bobby continues to launch the murder of my father and that of his father.”
He suggested that John F. Kennedy’s father, Robert F. Kennedy’s uncle and another uncle, the long -term legislator Ted Kennedy, “would be disgusted”.
She closed the letter with a speech for senators to reject her cousin’s candidacy on behalf of doctors, nurses, scientists and carers supplying the US healthcare system.
“They deserve a secretary who is committed to proceeding to promote the peak to save lives, not to reject the advances we have already made,” Ms Kennedy wrote. “They deserve a stable, moral and moral person at the helm of this critical service. They deserve better than Bobby Kennedy – and so on.”
