Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned on Saturday he’s being investigated over a decades-old story that he decapitated a useless whale and transported its cranium throughout state strains.
Kennedy made the admission throughout a marketing campaign occasion for former President Trump, saying he had acquired a letter final week. The report comes weeks after a left-wing environmental group resurfaced the whale story and known as for an investigation.
“I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago,” Kennedy mentioned Saturday.
“This is all about the weaponization of our government against political opponents,” he added.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going through an investigation right into a story that he as soon as transported a whale cranium throughout state strains. (CBS/Screenshot)
Kennedy didn’t supply particulars concerning the incident, but it surely first turned public due to a 2012 interview with Kennedy’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, with City and Nation Journal.
Within the interview, Kick describes her father slicing the top off of a useless whale and strapping it to the roof of their automobile, earlier than driving from a seashore in Massachusetts to Mount Kisco, New York.
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The left-wing group, the Heart for Organic Variety Motion Fund, had argued the useless animal was protected by the Marine Mammal Safety and Endangered Species, making it unlawful to own any a part of it.
Kennedy argues left-wing teams try to “weaponize” the federal government towards him. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
They additional claimed that it was doubtless a felony violation of the 1900 Lacey Act, “which prohibits the transportation of any wildlife, dead or alive, that was reduced to possession in violation of any state, federal or international regulation or law.”
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“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick instructed the journal, saying the incident occurred someday round 1994.
“We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us,” she added.
Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed former President Trump final month. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
The Heart for Organic Variety resurfaced the story simply days after Kennedy withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Trump.
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The whale incident just isn’t the one current controversy involving Kennedy and useless animals. He additionally admitted to dumping the physique of a useless bear in New York Metropolis’s Central Park over a decade in the past.
