RFK Jr.’s Campaign Fires Staffer Who Revealed the Goal Is to Reelect Donald Trump

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s marketing campaign has fired staffer Rita Palma, after she advised GOP voters that her “primary precedence” is stopping Joe Biden from successful the election—not by really getting Kennedy 270 Electoral Faculty votes, however through the use of him to play spoiler and reelect Donald Trump. After video of Palma’s remarks surfaced on-line this week, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedy’s marketing campaign supervisor and daughter-in-law, wrote: “We’re wanting into whether or not any misrepresentations have been made. Our marketing campaign champions freedom of speech for all our supporters, volunteers, contractors, and employees, so long as they don’t declare to talk on our behalf.” Two days later, she mentioned: “We terminated her contract for misrepresentation instantly upon seeing the longer video wherein she gave an inaccurate job title and described a dialog that didn’t occur.”

In footage of the assembly seen by CNN, Palma declared: “The one means that Trump may even, distant chance of taking New York is that if Bobby is on the poll. If it’s Trump vs. Biden, Biden wins. Biden wins six days, seven days per week. With Bobby within the combine, something can occur. The one means for him, for Bobby, to shake it up and to do away with Biden is that if he’s on the poll in each state, together with New York.” Whereas Democrats have lengthy warned that Kennedy’s candidacy poses a grave risk to Biden, Palma spelling it out and flatly saying that the aim is to assist Trump win a second time period was clearly not a great search for the Kennedy marketing campaign. (By the way, she additionally attended the “Cease the Steal” rally that preceded the January 6 rebellion, claimed January 6 “was not a riot” however “99.9 [percent] peaceable,” and repeatedly known as Trump her “favourite president” in posts on-line.)

So, for optics functions, she needed to go.* But, as my colleague Eric Lutz famous Wednesday, Palma is just not the one Trump supporter within the Kennedy world. Per The Wall Avenue Journal, Timothy Mellon is the only largest donor to not simply RFK Jr.’s PAC but additionally to Trump’s MAGA Inc. The marketing campaign additionally employed Del Bigtree, who not solely spoke at a pro-Trump rally on January 6, 2021, however unfoundedly mentioned, “I want I might consider that voting machines labored.” In the meantime, there was the “advertising and marketing contractor” who wrote in Kennedy’s fundraising emails that individuals convicted of participating within the rebellion have been “J6 activists…stripped of their constitutional liberties.” Certain, the marketing campaign says it fired that contractor. But it surely’s not exhausting to hearken to what Kennedy himself has to say and conclude that he additionally has very Trump-esque beliefs and is attempting to get the ex-president reelected.

Final week, Kennedy mentioned in a press release: “Affordable individuals, together with Trump opponents, inform me there may be little proof of a real rebellion.”

*Palma confirmed her firing to CNN and advised the outlet she believes Kennedy is “nonetheless by far the very best candidate.” She added: “I handled the marketing campaign actually. I’ve nothing to defend. Reality defends itself.”