Speaking during a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, about his decision to back former President Donald Trump and how that decision was based on the Democratic Party of today being a far, far different beast than the one he grew up with, RFK Jr. skewered both the changed Democratic Party and the media that acts as its lackey.

That came on Friday, August 23, when the former independent presidential candidate announced that he would be terminating his campaign and instead endorsing and helping support former President Donald Trump, who he sees as being the far better nominee for America and one whom he sees it as being his duty to support to help shield America from a Kamala presidency.

Commenting on how the Democratic Party he grew up with was different back in the day, Mr. Kennedy said, “Back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.”

Continuing, he noted that things have quite severely changed since his youth, with the Democratic Party of today being the party of “war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money.” On that same note, he added that he left the Democratic Party “when it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary.” He also said that “democracy” has “become little more than a slogan” for the Democrats.

Speaking more about that view of Democracy they actually have, he said, “In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself.”

He added that the party showed it was not interested in votes but in putting its people forth during his primary, saying, “Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.”

Further, he discussed the lawfare campaigns both he and Trump have faced, saying, “It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.”

Then, after skewering Kamala as being quite unpopular, he noted that his much more popular father and uncle, RFK and JFK, respectively, thought about America’s image more than their own power. He said, “My father and my uncle were always conscious of America’s image abroad because of our nation’s role as the template for democracy, the role model for democratic processes, and the leader of the free world. Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing: no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.”

Commenting more on the Kamala issue, he said, “How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle? They did it by weaponizing the government agencies. They did it by abandoning democracy. They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters. What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies.”

Then, skewering the state of the media in America, he said, “When a U.S. president colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right, of free expression, and that’s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest. President Biden mocked Vladimir Putin’s 88% landslide in the Russian elections, observing that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press and that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot; but here in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot, and our television networks expose themselves as Democratic Party organs.”

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