A day after the New Yorker magazine story broke, saying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disposed of a dead bear in Central Park a decade ago, the independent presidential candidate wrote a defiant response on X directed at mainstream media outlets.
Kennedy’s Aug 6 post referenced multiple disparaging stories published about him this year, to which he said, “The more you smear me, the more I’ll keep speaking.”
One story from May, by The New York Times, reported that in a 2012 divorce deposition, Kennedy said a worm ate part of his brain.
According to the legal papers cited by the Times, in 2010 Kennedy suffered severe memory loss and mental fog. He was at first diagnosed with a brain tumor but then another doctor reviewing his scan thought it might be “caused by a worm that got into [his] brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” the Times reported. No treatment was required and the symptoms cleared up, Kennedy told the paper….