Leaked video shows Trump criticizing vaccines on phone with RFK Jr. : NPR
By: Rachel Treisman (NPR)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A leaked video of a phone call between third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump shows the former president expressing doubt about vaccines and recounting the attempt on his life and his subsequent phone call with President Biden.
Kennedy's son, Bobby Kennedy III, appears to have posted the nearly two-minute clip on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday morning. Kennedy's son has since deleted his tweet, but not before several other accounts reposted the video, which he said was taken on Sunday, the day after Trump's attempted assassination.
Trump after the assassination attempt discussed how he agrees with RFK Jr. on vaccines:
"I agree with you, man. Something's wrong with that whole system, and it's the doctors you find.
Remember I said I want to do small doses. Small doses. When you feed a baby, Bobby, a… pic.twitter.com/gDpYUuNTjQ
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Kennedy has centered his political campaign on a conspiratorial view of the world, including promoting the misleading claim that vaccines are harmful. Trump, on the other hand, oversaw the initial U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal government's development of the first vaccines against the virus.
The video shows Kennedy standing in a room with an American flag, holding up an iPhone and listening intently as Trump talks on speakerphone.
As the recording starts, Trump can be heard saying: "I agree with you, man. Something's wrong with that whole system, and it's the doctors you find."
"Remember I said 'I want to do small doses. Small doses,'" Trump added, echoing childhood vaccine-related comments he made on the debate stage in 2015.
"When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it's meant for a horse, not a you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby."
Trump referenced previous such conversations with Kennedy — against whom he has regularly leveled personal attacks this election season — saying, "You and I talked about that a long time ago." Kennedy said "Yup," the only time he spoke in the video.
Trump also appeared to appeal to Kennedy, though it's not clear for what exactly. "I would love you to do something," Trump said, without offering further context. "And I think it'll be so good for you and so big for you. And we're going to win."
Trump and Kennedy met in Milwaukee on Monday, hours before Trump officially became the Republican nominee. The meeting sparked plenty of rumors, which Kennedy sought to quell in a tweet later that day.
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"Our main topic was national unity, and I hope to meet with Democratic leaders about that as well," he wrote. "No, I am not dropping out of the race."
The Biden administration announced on Monday that Biden had directed the U.S. Secret Service to provide protection to Kennedy in light of the attempt on Trump's life, something Trump also urged in social media posts that day.
Trump also talked about his near-death experience in the phone call with Kennedy, saying the bullet felt "like the world's largest mosquito."
"It was a, what do they call that, an AR-15 or something, that's a big gun," added Trump, who made his first public appearance at the convention on Monday night with a large white bandage covering his ear.
Trump also recounted his phone call with Biden after the shooting, saying, "It was very nice, actually."
He said he told the president that he had turned his head at the right time while showing off a chart about immigration numbers at the rally, adding: "I didn't have to tell him the chart was about all the people pouring into our country."
The video started circulating on social media on Tuesday morning, prompting Kennedy to apologize via tweet.
"When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer," he wrote. "I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the president."
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This is damn near a smoking gun showing Trump and Kennedy are in cahoots.
So what?
I agree.
This is just like Colangelo the 3rd in charge for the DOJ quitting to become Bragg's #1 prosecutor in the bogus charges in the Trump hush money case.
It reeks of collusion and election interference; and must not be allowed to stand!
How dare Trump call Kennedy at all! They are both trying to make sure Biden doesn't win reelection!
They are almost acting like they are Biden's political rivals!
The absolute horror
so kennedy is not trump's political rival ?
When democrats do it, it is a coincidence, when republicans do it, it is a conspiracy.
Evidently, if this "breaking news" is something, Trump doesn't think so.
Kennedy ostensibly is trying to beat Trump. And he met with him , with a little cryptic language thrown in?
This should be a scandal that alters the race.
Until it's not, and then the next straw that the left grasps should alter the race.......The only thing that will alter the race is if Biden somehow appears lucid.
“This should be a scandal that alters the race.”
lmfao. Way to keep those hopes up!
If Kennedy is trying to beat Trump, why did he talk with him on the phone and then meet with him?
This is entirely conspiratorial.
talk about Trump and Kennedy or you are going to be deleted.
He wants a cabinet position
most likely
OMG Biden called trump!!!! why is he talking to trump if he is trying to beat him????? the fix is in!!!!
Kind of like the “end of democracy”. Although two brave souls did give a lame assed attempt at it.
Aren't Trump and Kennedy the topic?
Why did Biden call Trump?
I know Democrats don't believe it; but Kennedy is still in the race- and as the article you seeded even states:
It couldn't have been a sign of the much talked about and so far non existent "unity" and cooling things down.
Nah, it is a vast conspiracy to overthrow the US!
Glad to see leftists aren't taking a break from their tin foil hat rhetoric.
I am sure the next deranged shooter just waiting for the proper cues to be shown that they have been waiting for is happy as well.
There it is.....the smoking gun.....Unfortuanely it will be a starters pistol shooting blanks.
He doesn't know fuck-all about guns. He was told what the gunman used and then couldn't fucking remember it.
Looks to me like he remembered it.............
oh please
He's not the macho man he wants to be. He's too citified to ever be a real man
Wonder if this kid's parents are going to be tried for murder like the kid's parents in Michigan for his shooting spree?
This kid wasn't underage. He was full grown adult responsible for his own actions. Now if he took that gun from his dad his dad might be in trouble for I dunno....not securing a deadly weapon properly?
Exactly. It was his dad's gun legally acquired. Probably not then. It was basically stolen to use.
Also, he's a bully coward wimp and a raging wussy.
That completely depends on who they voted for an/or donated to in the last election.
So he asked his dad if he could borrow it?
In that case if his dad said yes, he could be held liable one would think.
I'll bet he's never walked thru grass barefoot in his entire life. Never wore jeans and a T-shirt, never a pair of sneakers, ever taken a walk in the park or in the woods, never gotten his hands dirty. I bet he gets regular manicures
I'm not going there because I don't know the law
Are you talking about Biden?
Or a hug from dad
I mean he probably never got a hug from dad (or probably mom either).
Yeah. I doubt if trmp ever hugged his own kids. Showing your kids real affection is what makes a man a real man
Well, we know Biden hugged his daughter
In the shower no less.
And if his dad just left it lying around in an unlocked cabinet?
Then it was stolen.
And Ivanka gave her dad a lap dance when she was about 9
Lots of real men on NT -
Probably see love and affection as a weakness. Too bad mommy and daddy never hugged them either.
That's nothing compared to what Joe took from Ashley in the shower.
shes probably referring to this
Ivanka was 15 at the time, which in my opinion makes it more problematic
I dont think a lot of 15 year old girls would want to sit on their fathers lap during a concert, but i could be wrong
Funny you should mention that , i did read an article this AM that reported that at or about the time of the shooting , the shooters father did call the police to state that both a firearm and his son were missing , i am assuming its after the attempt and the shooter was killed .
as for storage requirements by law in Penn? it was reported the state has no such laws or requirements on the books , but they do highly recommend one store firearms safely .
I forgot/got confused - there are so many questionable pictures of her and daddy.
Maybe she was 9 where the picture of them on a bed together with her arms wrapped around him in a 'hug'.
You just know what's going on with daddy - stiffie
Thanks for that info. You are just full of details today. Kudos.
I could see that happening , tell dad he wants some range time and ask to use it .my kids did it all the time , sometimes did it without asking, only had one that did that once , i call him my "GALLAGHER kid ". . go to the range and fire a little in case dad calls and checks up. that depends on how controlling of a parent one is , or has in that case .
i have other thoughts about the sequence of events , range, ammo store and hardware store visits the same day .
as you said kid ( sorry at my age someone even 20 is still a kid) was a legal adult , could legally be in possession of a long arm , and was a member of the local range , lets not mention the fact he had no record that would indicate he should of not been able to .
hearsay from others as to his skill/ competence is just that hearsay .
getting use to full retirement , so i occupy my time with reading the news as well as honing my sardonic/sarcastic , attitude demeanor and wit ..
He appears to know fuck-all about anything.
I have to agree with you there, an AR15 shooting a .223 is a 22 who had a round of steroids and decided it wasn't for them, it definetely isn't a big gun.
The gun itself has little to do with it.
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It's still just a little fat 22, just going faster because there is more propellant, it probably went through his ear like a hole punch.
It's been reported that it wasn't the .223 version, it was a DPMS AR-15 5.56 rifle that was used to shoot at Trump.
Another leaked video? Who got grabbed by the pussy, this time? Is this where the playbook repeats?
By the time of the election Kennedy will be below 5%.
It remains to be seen if that 5% can effect the outcome.
So who cares if he and Trump talked?
If Kennedy isn't drawing enough support to effect the outcome?
it sure sounds like collusion