The first question Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received when he sat down with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream for his first big TV interview after dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Donald Trump was about reported text messages he sent recently in which he referred to Trump as a “terrible human being,” “barely human,” and “probably a sociopath.” By the end of the interview, he was confronted with the implicit and explicit disapproval from his own family.
Kennedy did not dispute the veracity of those texts, instead explaining that once he realized as had no “path to victory” as an independent candidate, he decided to throw his support behind a man he evidently doesn’t respect because Trump actively courted his favor—unlike Kamala Harris.
“He invited me to form a unity government and we agreed to be able to continue to criticize each other on issues on which we don’t agree,” Kennedy said, but their shared desire to “make American children healthy again,” as he put it, alluding to his history of opposition to childhood vaccines, meant he could overlook everything else.
