Former President Donald Trump slammed Fox News for inviting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to appear on its shows.
The former president has ramped up his criticism of the third-party candidate, amid concerns he could draw away conservative voters in November’s election.
“So bad that FoxNews puts RFK Jr., considered the dumbest member of the Kennedy Clan, on their fairly conservative platform so much. Competitive networks don’t want anything to do with him,” Mr. Trump wrote a Wednesday night in a Truth Social post. “He’s a Radical Left Lunatic whose crazy Climate Change views make the Democrat’s Green New Scam look Conservative.”
Mr. Kennedy sat down with the cable news network’s Jesse Watters on Wednesday.
Mr. Trump called on Republicans to not “waste your precious vote on this phony Liberal Activist.”
“With all of that said, he probably hurts [President Biden] more than ‘US!’” he said.
Mr. Trump took to Truth Social late last month to say Mr. Kennedy’s candidacy was being engineered by the Democrats to divide the Trump vote.
“RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant.’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected,” Mr. Trump said.
“A vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him,” he said.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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