Red Alert: RFK Jr.’s Far-Right MAGA Allies & Agenda

Anyone considering Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s spoiler presidential campaign must be aware that RFK Jr. is a right-wing nut who is actively aligned with MAGA and is embracing far-right allies, conspiracy theories, and radical policies. A vote for RFK Jr. is not just a vote for Trump but an endorsement of their shared right-wing worldview.

MAGA leaders praise RFK Jr. for his far-right views and conspiracy mongering, likening him to Trump…

• Steve Bannon embraces RFK Jr.’s deep-state conspiracies: “[Kennedy is] what I’ve been talking about—the anti-vax, the vaccine-hesitant, anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian…What Kennedy is talking about is the administrative state and deep state. His particular line of work, but it gets deeper, is the biopharmaceutical and medical industrial complex. But he also gets into the national security and intel. You cannot tell the difference between Kash Patel’s line of attack and Robert F. Kennedy.” – Steve Bannon, Real America’s Voice/Media Matters (June 21, 2023)
• Roger Stone cheers on RFK Jr.’s Trumpian policies and says he “sounds a lot like Donald Trump”: “I’m extraordinarily impressed with [RFK Jr.’s] performance on the stump…He’s a truth teller…He is opposed to endless foreign war, he wants to close our border, and he is for health freedom…Donald Trump has said ‘he's a good man.’ He's got some very good ideas.” – Roger Stone, OANN (June 27, 2023)
• Alex Jones says, “I really support” RFK Jr.: RFK Jr. is “a man of integrity that fights fluoride and poison shots and fentanyl and everything else. He’s a good man…He’s got a lot of guts, and I really support him...I would support him over most RINO Republicans.” – Alex Jones, NBC News (April 28, 2023)
• Tucker Carlson vehemently defends RFK Jr.’s COVID theories: “Robert Kennedy knew early that the COVID vaccines were both ineffective and potentially dangerous…Bobby Kennedy himself is not extreme. He is deeply insightful and above all, he is honest…Bobby Kennedy is one of the most remarkable people we have ever met, and we are honored to have him on our show.” – Tucker Carlson, Fox News (April 19, 2023)
• Joe Rogan loves RFK Jr.’s anti-vax, deep-state theories: “I love [RFK Jr.]. Forget about the vaccine stuff, which I think he's got very good points on all that stuff. And if you read his book, if you read the ‘Real Anthony Fauci’ you'll be sick to your stomach if you know the absolute truth...He’s an amazing guy. I really love him.” – Joe Rogan, RFK Jr. (February 11, 2024)

And they’re right: RFK Jr. does champion far-right policies and conspiracy theories…

• COVID: It’s “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people”: “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., New York Post (July 15, 2023)
• Vaccines: No vaccine is safe and effective: “A mountain of scientific study links autism to early vaccination with certain vaccines.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NBC News (March 18, 2024) He also said: “There is no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CNN (December 15, 2023)
• Immigration: Deploy the military, close the border: “I would shut down the border and do it immediately, even if it took deploying the military,” and “finish the wall.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., RFK Jr./American Values 2024 (January 20, 2024)
• Guns: Don’t restrict guns, investigate anti-depressants: “Prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these [mass shootings]." – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Forbes (October 10, 2023). RFK Jr. also said, “I do not believe that there is, within that second amendment, that there’s anything we can meaningfully do to reduce the trade in the ownership of guns, and I’m not going to take people’s guns away.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Newsmax (June 29, 2023)
• Reproductive Rights: 15-week abortion ban: “So you would cap [abortion] at 15 weeks?” RFK Jr.: “Yes, yes, yes, for three months…Once the child is viable outside the womb, I think the state has an interest in protecting that child that supersedes...I think the states have a right to protect the child once it becomes viable.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NBC News (August 14, 2023) He also said: “You educated me that 85% of abortions are with Black women. The abortion clinics are in the Black neighborhoods and the fertility clinics are in the white neighborhoods.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Washington Post, (February 23, 2024)
• Climate: There is a cabal, run by Bill Gates and the intelligence agencies, that is co-opting climate change to establish totalitarian controls: “Climate change is being used to control us through fear…as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls in the same way the COVID crisis was. It’s the intelligence agencies…and it’s the same kind of cabal of people who will use every crisis to stratify society.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., RFK Jr. (July 12, 2023) “[Climate change] has been co-opted—by Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum…” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Unherd (May 3, 2023)
• Democracy: Biden is a greater threat than Trump: “President Biden is a much worse threat to democracy [than Trump] and the reason for that is President Biden is the first President in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech to censor his opponent…Who is a worse threat to democracy...I can argue that President Biden is…” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CNN (April 1, 2024)
• Russia: Biden provoked Russia in Ukraine: “[The Biden administration] wanted war as part of their strategic grand plan to destroy any country such as Russia that resists American imperial expansion. They only pretend to think it was unprovoked. They are lying to us, manufacturing consent for war.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., RFK Jr.(May 24, 2023)

The far right sees RFK Jr. as a spoiler who helps Trump…

• Trump: RFK Jr. is going to take votes from Biden: “[RFK Jr.] is going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden, which would be a great service to America…He is Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, not mine. I love that he is running!” – Donald Trump, Donald Trump (March 27, 2024)
• Stone: RFK Jr. is going to help Trump: “I do think that everything [RFK’s] doing, all the important issues he is raising, will end up inuring to the benefit of Donald Trump.” – Roger Stone, Pastors for Trump (July 26, 2023)
• MAGA Donors: Fund RFK Jr. to help Trump: “American Values 2024 has so far raised $38 million, and its most important donor is longtime Republican financier Timothy Mellon. Mellon…has contributed millions of dollars to conservative candidates over the years, including $15 million in donations to MAGA Inc, the premiere pro-Trump super PAC, this election cycle.” – Rolling Stone (February 26, 2024)

And RFK Jr.’s team agrees.

• Kennedy Campaign: We throw the election to Trump: “The only way that Trump can even (have a) remote possibility of taking New York is if Bobby is on the ballot…If it's Trump v. Biden, Biden wins…Give those 28 (New York) electoral votes to Bobby rather than to Biden, thereby reducing Biden's 270. And we all know how that works, right — 270 wins the election. If you don't get to 270, if nobody gets to see 270, then Congress picks the president, right? Right now we have a majority of Republicans in Congress.” – Rita Palma, former RFK Jr. New York Director, CBS (April 8, 2024)