Posted originally on the CTH on August 25, 2024 | Sundance
RFK JR delivered a short speech in Arizona, highlighting why it was both challenging and important for him to drop out of the race and support President Donald Trump. The people closest to RFK Jr., are also impacted by his decision, and they have shared their opinion about it.
First, here is the transcript of the speech that RFK Jr gave to the enthusiastic audience.
[Transcript] – Thank you, President Trump. A few hours after the assassination attempt at Butler, I got a call from a safe food advocate named Calley Means, who’s been fighting for many years to try to end the corruption at the CDC, FDA, and USDA.
These institutions—these regulatory agencies—are actually run by the big food processing companies, the big ag, and the chemical companies that they’re supposed to regulate.
He said to me that he’d been advising me for many years and on my campaign. That night, he told me that he was also advising President Trump and asked if I would talk to President Trump. I said, “Of course.”
A few minutes later, I got a call from the President, and we talked. We had a very good conversation. Then he invited me to come see him the next day. I went to Minneapolis and saw him. We met again a couple of weeks later in Florida.
We talked not about the things that separate us—because we don’t agree on everything—but about the values and the issues that bind us together. One of the issues he talked about was having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic.
Our children are now the unhealthiest, sickest children in the world. Don’t you want healthy children? Don’t you want the chemicals out of our food? Don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption?
That’s what President Trump told me he wanted. He also told me that he wanted to end the grip of the neocons on U.S. foreign policy.
He said he didn’t want any more $200 billion wars in Ukraine—that we could use that money back here in the United States. The best way to build a safe America is to rebuild our industrial base and the middle class in this country.
Don’t you want a President who’s going to get us out of wars and rebuild the middle class in this country?
He told me that he wanted to end censorship because the whole basis of American democracy is the free flow of information. We know that a government that can silence its opponents has a license for any atrocity.
Can you think of any time in history when the people who were censoring were the good guys? They’re always the bad guys because it’s always the first step down that slippery slope to totalitarianism.
Don’t you want a President who’s going to protect America’s freedoms and protect us against totalitarianism? I want to ask you again: don’t you want a safe environment for your children?
Don’t you want to know that the food you’re feeding them is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease?
Don’t you want a President who’s going to make America healthy again?
Thank you all very, very much. God bless you, and God bless America.” [End Transcript]
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Nicole Shanahan, RFK JR’s vice-presidential nominee running mate, then shared the following message via her Twitter Account:
“Taking some time with family this weekend to love on them for their unwavering support these past few months, but I wanted to take a minute to jump on here and share some of my thoughts. Like millions of others, I watched Bobby’s speech yesterday, followed by the rally where he stood with President Trump. I was moved to tears.
I remain optimistic and vigilant that the partnership made will be honored, and that lasting reforms in government credibility and competency will be built through this coalition. I’m also thinking about all the incredible Team Kennedy volunteers and supporters who poured their hearts and souls into this movement—I am with you—your dedication, your hard work, sweat, and tears lifted up the most impactful third-party campaign of this generation, and is giving birth to a renewed nation.
This is just the beginning. The future of our country now rests in the hands of the American people, who must choose between freedom or control, health or poverty, peace or war, unity or division. The choice is ours—let’s choose wisely.” [END]
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s wife, Cheryl Hines, released the following message – also Via Twitter:
“The decision has been made to suspend my husband’s, Robert Kennedy Jr.’s, presidency and I’d like to extend a sincere, deeply heartfelt thank you to every person who has worked so tirelessly and lovingly on his campaign. They have accomplished feats that were said to be impossible. They have gathered over a million signatures, more than any candidate in history, and have achieved ballot access across the country despite the roadblocks and lawsuits that have been brought against them for the sole purpose of keeping Bobby off of the ballots so no one would even have the opportunity to vote for him.
I deeply respect the decision Bobby made to run on the principle of unity. Over the last year and a half, I have met some extraordinary people from all parties — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. It’s been my experience that the vast majority of all parties are truly good people who want the best for our country and for each other. It has been an eye-opening, transformative, and endearing journey.” [END]
To say the larger MAGA movement is gleeful, happy and optimistic – as noticeable via all social media platforms, would be an understatement. I have never seen the self-identifying MAGA community this excited about an event in politics in a long time – if ever. Factually, I had no idea that RFK Jr was such an incredible hero to the average Donald Trump supporter. Isaiah 2:22
One image shared via the Musk platform included a man with his two children at the Glendale, AZ rally:
“In the midst of President Trump speaking, I was moved by this man with his children He stood the entire time, at the back of the stadium, holding their little hands as he held on to the words of the President It was moving to watch. We have much to fight the country wreckers for.” [SOURCE]
The captured picture is indeed a powerful image in many ways.
The image gave me pause as I thought about the age of the children represented, the distance we have traveled in their lifetime and the possibilities of their father’s intent.
My thoughts about Robert F Kennedy Jr and the world of politics in general shifted upon review.
Do you remember that moment in saving private Ryan, when Captain John Miller looks at Private James Francis Ryan and says, “Earn this.”?
Yeah….
The incredible MAGA patriots of this movement have sacrificed and suffered greatly. We have been stabbed in the back, tormented, ridiculed, called every name in the Alinsky book, and had the full weight of a weaponized federal government targeting us relentlessly.
From our door to door efforts in a very cold Massachusetts 2009, where our team worked against all odds for Scott Brown; to the victory achieved by a united Tea Party in 2010; to the insurmountable effort on behalf of David Brat to expel Eric Cantor and stop the Gang of Eight amnesty program; to the targeting of our simple patriotic groups by the IRS and Main Justice; to the late night muddy fields in Virginia 2016; through every manipulative and Machiavellian hurdle from the professional GOPe and their insufferable alignment with Democrats to weaponize ballots in 2020, while threatening us with arrest for not taking their poison shots…. we have fought, scratched, clawed and taken ground away from a vile DC system supported by a corrupt media apparatus – to expand The Great Awakening!
Trust was given, repeatedly, and destroyed with scorn and spit upon our faces from both Democrats and Republicans; but we kept fighting because our Republic is worth saving.
We used to believe that when we faced actual tyranny, the full weight of We The People would join in commonality and unite against our oppressors. Then came COVID-19, lockdowns, control and tyrannical vaccine mandates from government.
Now, in the technologically controlled communication era, we realize that tyranny in modern manifest turns people against one another, making many glad -even ecstatic- to witness the pain of those they have learned to hate.
Yet here we are again, seemingly facing another inflection point, where the battered and bruised faces I see beside me are willing to charge again into this breach, with the spark of patriotism still alive – protected like a cherished ember. Dear Lord, hear my prayers.
The burden to deserve our allegiance should not be carried by my brothers and sisters in that Glendale audience. That burden should rest squarely on the shoulders of any person who says they have arrived to help.
Deserve THAT Bobby!
The withdrawal from the “Ten battleground states” is a good start. I will be watching closely to see if each state is actually changed.
And, my joyful friends, I urge you to temper your perspective, steel your spine, steady your gaze and accept that if RFK Jr is really here to help, Kennedy will assist our MAGA movement by putting his election lawyers to work in key precincts that need to be watched like a hawk, and help challenge ballot audit trails when needed.
Personally, my trust account is long overdrawn. Psalm 118:8 !!
RFK Jr needs to prove himself!
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