Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has denied allegations made in a new Vanity Fair report that he had previously eaten a dog while sidestepping accusations of sexual assault levied by a former nanny in the magazine, saying, “I’m not a church boy.”
  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    381·
    3 days ago

    Actual quote:

    The Vanity Fair article also features Eliza Cooney, a former part-time babysitter who worked for Kennedy between 1998 and 1999, alleging that he groped her in his kitchen. Kennedy declined to directly acknowledge the sexual assault accusation at first, instead dismissing “the other allegations” as part of a “very, very rambunctious youth.”

    “I’ve said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that. I said … I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have … so many skeletons in my closet, that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world,” Kennedy said, adding, “Vanity Fair is recycling 30-year-old stories, and I, you know, am not gonna comment on the details of any of them.”

    When asked directly whether he denied sexually assaulting Cooney, Kennedy repeated, “I’m not going to comment on it.”

    This comes right after he directly and at length denied the allegations that he ate part of a dog.

    Also, this part of his very, very rambunctious youth happened (allegedly) when he was 45 and had several children.

    • 242@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      16·
      3 days ago

      That’s par for the course. Trump’s “locker room talk” about the joys of sexual assault happened when he was in his 60’s, but they still hand waved it away as if it was a minor transgression by a teenager.

    • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 days ago

      Saying “I had a rambunctious childhood” and “I’ve got so many skeletons in my closet” like it absolves him from anything…

      “Yeah, I strangled that hooker while high on coke and while getting blown by that other hooker. So what? Why are you surprised? I told you I had a rambunctious childhood!”